On May 16, 5:48*pm, Wes wrote:


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

But when a solid center is in the headstock, it is indeed live as in rotating with its
support and solid centers with lubrication have been used in the tailstock that is a fixed
support.

Wes

If you want to find a center with bearings in a catalog, you had best
look for live centers. I do not think you will find " ball bearing
dead centers " listed in any catalogs. But there was a time when Ed's
terminology was used. But probably not in the last fifty years.

Dan