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Steady Rest

Ted Lundberg

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Aug 4, 2020
Not sure if I am in the correct forum, but looking for a steady rest for an old 13 inch South Bend lathe (C113C).
Also any tooling.
 
Remember that it's not overly difficult to use an adapter plate to fit a different steady to the lathe.
A 1/2" plate under a steady for a 12" swing lathe will get you to correct center height for a 13".
 
the adaptor plate thing works. I made one for my 13" regal.The part was for a 13" regal with a wider bed than mine.That meant that I had to remove CI from the bottom half of it.I used an angle plate on a face plate that I had made from an orphaned one by boring it out and putting a CI slug in there and threading it on a small but heavy drive plate. This type of stuff will work fine if it is carefully done but it is somewhat ugly.
 








 
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