I picked up a new old lathe a few years ago and have just had it in mothballs. A buddy asked me if I'd make some suspension links for him so I decided that was a good enough excuse to set this one up. My other lathe has change gears and its a pain in the ass to change feed rates.
He bought hex stock and I'll be turning most of it down round just leaving the hex on the ends so you can hold the links with a wrench.
I suggested buying round stock and just letting me mill a couple flats on them for an open end wrench but he wasn't having any of that. I would have just used my old old lathe to drill and tap the ends to accept the spherical rod end bearings.
I bought a collet chuck for it since it didn't come with the adapter for collets and found someone at Cabin Fever Expo that send me some old used backing plates that would fit the Sheldon spindle. The other reason to use the collet chuck was I could use 5c collets instead of the smaller ones the small diameter spindle on the Sheldon would limit me to.
When I put the backing plate on the lathe and tried to true it up I noticed every time I loosened it up and ran it back on the spindle I did not run true. The part that isn't threaded on the that goes on the spindle was oversized even though the threads were correct. I bored that part of the backing plate out and found a piece of steel pipe I could make a press fit bushing out of.
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