Great design & really nicely made!awake wrote:A few years ago, shortly after I started learning machining, I acquired a second hand spin-indexer -- just the indexer, no tailstock. A year or so later I acquired a second hand dividing head. Again, you guessed it -- no tailstock. I've used both without a tailstock ever since, but more than once I've been pushing the envelope without a tailstock to stabilize the free end.
Added to the database at homemadetools.net: http://www.homemadetools.net/adjustable-tailstock
Ken