Anyone know what this Steady Rest fits?

swatkins · Jun 30, 2014

When I picked up my Axelson 16 x 30 it had a steady rest that was painted the same colors as the lathe. I though it was for the Axelson but it is not... It is a well made piece and is about 2 inches too high and the base is about two inches narrower than my Axelsons ways... I can't find any markings on the tool but the crappy paint job may have hidden them.

I have been looking for an easy way to modify the rest to fit my axelson but the "hollow" legs of the rest do not easily lend itself to modification. The best idea I have had so far is to cut the existing base off and machine a new, wider base. After cutting the legs I would be left with a "U" shaped casting that is not easy to mount to. Would probably have to machine a U shaped block, about 1" high, that would fit inside the leg and allow me to bolt through the thin leg casting and bolt to the new base.

Of course I would love to find the correct steady rest and sent this one on to it's correct lathe...

beckley23 · Jul 1, 2014

With the exception of the latch, it looks like a Monarch steady.
Harry

swatkins · Jul 1, 2014

beckley23 said:
With the exception of the latch, it looks like a Monarch steady.
Harry

It could well be.. I found another thread that had a Monarch steady rest for a 16" and it shows the same dimensions for the base as this one. ( I think you also identified that one

) There was a Monarch lathe in the same shop as the Axelson, where it is now , who knows. (Was purchased from a shop around Dallas/ Central Texas about two years ago)

Maybe the two lathes had their steadys mixed up....

4GSR · Jul 1, 2014

I've got a Monarch steady rest that someone nicely welded (nickel silver brazed) a chunk of flat bar to the bottom to bring it up to the center line of my lathe on the flat of the lathe bed. I've got to add material to it fit the funky way on the other side of the bed. The "U" shaped clamp was used on Lehmann steady rest, too.

swatkins · Jul 1, 2014

In a way I'm lucky in that I need to lower this rest to the correct height. Need to take it down 2 inches and make the base 2 inches wider. After cutting the legs there will still be more than enough room to easily work the claming bolt.

johnoder · Jul 2, 2014

Has no binder screws for arms like this Monarch job

beckley23 · Jul 2, 2014

John is correct about the binder screws. I retract my comment about the above steady being a Monarch.
Harry

swatkins · Jul 2, 2014

My mistake gents

It does have the locking screws, I didn't post the correct picture above, two of the same side...

swatkins · Jul 2, 2014

4GSR said:
I've got a Monarch steady rest that someone nicely welded (nickel silver brazed) a chunk of flat bar to the bottom to bring it up to the center line of my lathe on the flat of the lathe bed. I've got to add material to it fit the funky way on the other side of the bed. The "U" shaped clamp was used on Lehmann steady rest, too.

Post a picture of the one you have with measurements. If I have to modify one, and the one I have fits yours without modifications, maybe we should swap...

4GSR · Jul 2, 2014

swatkins said:
Post a picture of the one you have with measurements. If I have to modify one, and the one I have fits yours without modifications, maybe we should swap...

You're is a inch too short, from the centerline of the SR to the flat on bottom. That's right in line with mine before the flat bar was welded to the bottom.

Only if John had a 18" Monarch instead of a 16", it probably would fit his just perfect for a second SR! He has the bed length to run two steady's.

I remember seeing one many years ago, about the size of John's, that had two carriages on it! That was over there around Porter. Ken

4GSR · Jul 2, 2014

I can't get to the Monarch steady rest at the moment. It's buried deep behind the Lodge right now. First chance I get, I'll try to get to it and take some pictures to post. Meantime, here's one that I bought thinking it would fit. It's too short, too! By the dimensions, it appears to be for a 14" L & S. But when I'm finished with it, It'll be for my 20" L & S.

4GSR · Jul 2, 2014

Something else I just thought about, and I hate even thinking about it, too. Ten years later...

I had a old Reed Prentice SR that dad modified to fit his 16" Axelson. The guy who bought the lathe didn't want the SR and left it behind. Well in the mist of cleaning up and getting rid of stuff on the family homestead, the SR and a couple of other accessories that went to that lathe along with about 5,000 lbs of junk, raw material, and other stuff, went to the scrap man. :cryin:

Still makes me sick thinking about it!

Just had to get it off my chest. I know it don't help you any, but only if I had kept it....

swatkins · Jul 2, 2014

4GSR said:
the SR and a couple of other accessories that went to that lathe along with about 5,000 lbs of junk, raw material, and other stuff, went to the scrap man. Still makes me sick thinking about it!

Just had to get it off my chest. I know it don't help you any, but only if I had kept it....

Maybe you should join LTAA! (Lathe tools abuser anonymous!) How the hell can you live with yourself?

swatkins · Jul 2, 2014

4GSR said:
Only if John had a 18" Monarch instead of a 16", it probably would fit his just perfect for a second SR! He has the bed length to run two steady's.

If John tries to put a second steady rest into that shop it will collapse faster than that floor, with a 100 people on it, did in Katy!

4GSR · Jul 10, 2014

swatkins said:
If John tries to put a second steady rest into that shop it will collapse faster than that floor,.....

I carried off about 20 lbs of stuff over the weekend from John's place. The steady rest may fit in there now!!!

the-machinist · Jul 10, 2014

We have a steady like that on our Mazak engine lathe, dimensions are the same.

swatkins · Jul 10, 2014

4GSR said:
I carried off about 20 lbs of stuff over the weekend from John's place. The steady rest may fit in there now!!!

I wish you would have told me on Monday... It's been 4 days now and I'm sure John has put in 40 lbs more by now... I've had to go on a diet in the hopes he would invite me back!

nalambright · Sep 19, 2014

It fits an Okuma LS engine lathe. It came in the lot of other d1-6 tooling I bought at the Storm Vulcan auction when they went under.

swatkins · Jul 28, 2015

On the 15th PM member wolfenstien sent me a PM asking if I had modified the steady rest yet. He has the lathe my rest fits and was hoping that the rest was still in the original shape and we could work out some kind of deal.

wolfenstien I have sent you two PM's with no response. I see you have not been back on PM since the 15th and you have no email listed. I writing here with the hope that you are reading PM, just not logged in, and will reply to my PM's.

swatkins · May 29, 2017

Had a member ask me if this was still available and I noticed the original pictures are missing..

I'm still looking for the correct one for my 16" Axelson

Anyone know what this Steady Rest fits?

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