Making A Carriage Stop For My Lathe

[Hopefuldave]

Thanks Ed, glad you like it! It's the sort of little touch that makes a machine quicker, easier and more satisfying to use :)

I made a dial for my tailstock like that so I could drill to depth accurately, rather than using the "ruler" on the barrel - the hardest bit was grduating the dial with 125 thou" lines and punching.the.numbers square!
I used ballpoint pen springs cut down and (if memory serves me well) 3/16" balls, and turned a shallow groove in the calibrated ring to keep it centred on the main dial body.

As I do a lot of work in metric as well as Imperial, I have a cunning plan to make some geared dials, but it means cutting several 120 and 127 tooth internal 32 or 40 DP gears - eek!
I discovered that my carriage handwheel (no dial) is 1.025" / turn, so Some Thought Required to make a dial for it - at the moment I'm thinking 120-123 internal gears to get that to something useful, although there is a micrometer stop and a gauge tray already there... I'd then be tempted to make it a dual dial, so another set of internal gears...

Dave H. (the other one)

Edited for typo....