Mini quick change tool post

[Doc]

Just about got them done.
Been working on 2 small lathes that I'm building from scratch and decided to make a couple mini quick changes for them.

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFihLPtmzp4" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFihLPtmzp4</a>

[Dan Rowe]

Doc, how small is the lathe? A normal watchmaker's lathe has a 50mm center height and very few quick change systems will work with ONLY 10mm between the top of the slide and the center as my Levin measures.

Cheers Dan

[Doc]

the center height from top of compound slide is about .5 or 12.7mm actually just shy .475 the quick change should work great with .25 or 3/16 tool bits.

[Dan Rowe]

Doc and anyone looking for a very small QC lathe system Tripan 00 series works for my Levin. These things are not cheap but they are very well built.

https://swisskh.com/17-tripan?q=S%C3%A9rie-S%C3%A9rie+00

Cheers Dan

[Jo]

The smallest of the Multifix tool systems is a bit bigger than the Tripan: the Multifix "AA" goes down to 12mm - 6mm of the holder under the tool bit plus 6mm to the cutting edge of the tool.

Jo

[Zephyrin]

For my Toyo lathe, with 50mm of tool height, I do have these little Tool Holders since several years, and they are a great help, imported from china, and much cheaper than genuine Tripan tooling, and specially much less flexible too
sold here by RCMachines in Luxembourg but also from other importers.

[Doc]

Finished up my mini quick change tool posts.
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zvRXkBMYn0" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zvRXkBMYn0</a>