While working on the compound clamp mod, I came across the compound
lock, where a lever operated cam fixes the compound in place, instead of
having to loosen the clamp bolts.

Any pics or drawings?

Louis Ohland wrote:
While working on the compound clamp mod, I came across the compound
lock, where a lever operated cam fixes the compound in place, instead of
having to loosen the clamp bolts.

Any pics or drawings?

Louis, there are lots of plans online for building a tailstock
lever-lock for several chinese lathes.
The compound locks I've seen looked like a variation of the same principle

http://www.google.com/search?q=tails...ient=firefox-a

On Wed, 05 Aug 2009 23:04:00 -0500, Louis Ohland wrote:

While working on the compound clamp mod, I came across the compound
lock, where a lever operated cam fixes the compound in place, instead of
having to loosen the clamp bolts.

Any pics or drawings?


Pages 4 and 8 :-

http://www.csparks.com/hardinge/PartsList/index.html


Mark Rand
RTFM