I am going to try and weld up a couple today. I have a friend bringing his
welder over.
Thanks for the ideas.

Don

"Prometheus" wrote in message
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On Sat, 30 Apr 2005 14:12:09 -0500, "BigDaddy"
wrote:



A friend of mine had the same problem. I took a chunk of
angle iron I had on hand, and, welded it to the top of a 7/8" hitch
pin from Northern Tool. It needed a bit of work to get the top
edge of the angle iron parallal to the turning axis, but,
worked well enough.
BVasically, all you need to do is measure the banjo hole
and pick up a rod that fits...and get a crossbar of your choice
welded to it.
Regards
Dave Mundt

Thanks for the reply Dave.
A question
Does it matter if the top of the rest is flat, or can it be made from the
same rod, welded into a "T"?

I made a couple of extra rests out of steel rod welded into a "T", and
I actually like them quite a lot better than the cast iron ones that
came with my lathe. Before welding, I ground the end of the rod that
goes into the banjo slightly concave on the end of a belt sander to
limit the gap I had to fill in, but the whole project only took about
5 mintues, and I made three of them.

Don
Ft. Worth, TX


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