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A Carriage Stop for my Lathe

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vtsteam:
The lathe I built shares some design elements and dimensions with Atlas/Craftsman lathes -- particularly the ways. In fact I use an old Craftsman cast iron tailstock housing on it. All the internals of that and its base, I made, but the housing was purchased from Ebay for $14, and it seemed too hard to pass up at the time -- how much are they now $100?? there are crazy prices these days for machine tool stuff.

Speaking of which, I went searching Ebay just for photos of an Atlas carriage stop, just to see how they did it, in case I wanted to make one similar. I found only one -- which was documented well enough, but I was shocked at the money they wanted for it because it was not only broken and sloppily repaired with braze, but whoever did that also had the setting dial in backwards so the index mark was on the knurled side and the engraved dial was opposite. I think they also had the bottom clamp upside down and backwards. For this they had set a price of $124.99 and an additional $7.50 shipping.

Description: "As shown in pictures. Has a time tested repair. Works fine"

vtsteam:
Hmmmm, maybe that clamp isn't upside down -- I saw a photo of another one with it having those rounded protrusions up. Rivets?

I would think those are bearing points, possibly softer metal. Not quite getting this design yet....

vtsteam:
This is gettin' curiouser and curiouser. Definitely in the first set of pics, 2nd photo the bolts are on the wrong side, and the clamp is upside down -- that's the only way the wide and narrow legs will fit the proper way on the main body.

So, maybe in the photo in my post just previous, those rivets (if they are rivets) are round headed on BOTH sides of the clamp. Why...I don't know....

internal_fire:
I cobbled together a carriage stop from that Atlas unit more than 30 years ago. The mounting depends entirely on the needs of the lathe. In my case both the lathes I used it on had V-ways, so the flat base does not work directly.

My rendition is pretty ugly, but it works fine.

The orientation of the dial can be changed in a few seconds. Many of those ebay deals are from someone who has no idea what the item is or how it works. They got it from a garage sale or estate sale and just slapped it together in some fashion.

Gene

vtsteam:
Thanks Gene.  :cheers:  It looks like you replaced the mysterious bottom clamp with your adapter. Any idea what those rounded bumps on it were? Dowel pins?

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