"Ed Huntress" wrote in
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"Wes" wrote in message
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"Ed Huntress" wrote:

Just in case you run into a fussy old fart, like me g, be aware
that the traditional meaning of a "live center" is one that is driven
under power. In
other words, a headstock center.

A ball-bearing center for use in the tailstock is a ball-bearing dead
center.

You won't have any problem using the term the way you're using it,
unless you get an old guy on a bad day. d8-)

I've always heard of the bearing center called live and a solid
center called dead.

To paraphrase Monty Python: They're not dead, they're just restin'...

Doug White