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Quest -- A Good Steady Rest
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Hello all -- My lathe is a Jet 9X20. Yes it is Asian in origen, but that's where the similarity ends. I bought it at a garage sale in 7 seperate boxes. There were parts for everything imaginable in there. It took 3 years to get it to where it is now. Nothing on it is metric anymore.

So in starting a new project, a 1/6 scale P&W 1830 Radial Engine I found the steady rest inadiquate for this build, it was too small. Off we went looking for a better one. Not to be found that could be adapted. Off to the drawing board (See Below)

Over the next few days I will show you the whole build of this Steady Rest. From start to finish it took 100 hrs. Hope you enjoy this build.

"Billy G"


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Quest -- A Good Steady Rest - by Bill Gruby - 06-20-2012, 10:20 AM
RE: Quest -- A Good Steady Rest - by Bill Gruby - 06-20-2012, 10:39 AM
RE: Quest -- A Good Steady Rest - by lazylathe - 06-20-2012, 10:39 AM
RE: Quest -- A Good Steady Rest - by Highpower - 06-20-2012, 10:40 AM
RE: Quest -- A Good Steady Rest - by TomG - 06-20-2012, 10:43 AM
RE: Quest -- A Good Steady Rest - by Bill Gruby - 06-20-2012, 10:49 AM
RE: Quest -- A Good Steady Rest - by Bill Gruby - 06-20-2012, 10:56 AM
RE: Quest -- A Good Steady Rest - by Bill Gruby - 06-20-2012, 11:13 AM
RE: Quest -- A Good Steady Rest - by ETC57 - 06-20-2012, 12:49 PM
RE: Quest -- A Good Steady Rest - by Bill Gruby - 06-20-2012, 02:17 PM
RE: Quest -- A Good Steady Rest - by Bill Gruby - 06-20-2012, 02:33 PM
RE: Quest -- A Good Steady Rest - by Bill Gruby - 06-20-2012, 03:00 PM
RE: Quest -- A Good Steady Rest - by DaveH - 06-20-2012, 03:10 PM
RE: Quest -- A Good Steady Rest - by doubleboost - 06-20-2012, 03:24 PM
RE: Quest -- A Good Steady Rest - by Bill Gruby - 06-20-2012, 03:53 PM
RE: Quest -- A Good Steady Rest - by EdK - 06-20-2012, 03:54 PM
RE: Quest -- A Good Steady Rest - by Bill Gruby - 06-20-2012, 03:58 PM
RE: Quest -- A Good Steady Rest - by Bill Gruby - 06-21-2012, 06:56 AM
RE: Quest -- A Good Steady Rest - by Bill Gruby - 06-21-2012, 07:06 AM
RE: Quest -- A Good Steady Rest - by Bill Gruby - 06-21-2012, 07:10 AM
RE: Quest -- A Good Steady Rest - by krv3000 - 06-21-2012, 07:31 AM
RE: Quest -- A Good Steady Rest - by stevec - 06-21-2012, 07:40 AM
RE: Quest -- A Good Steady Rest - by Bill Gruby - 06-21-2012, 08:12 AM
RE: Quest -- A Good Steady Rest - by Bill Gruby - 06-21-2012, 09:39 AM
RE: Quest -- A Good Steady Rest - by Bill Gruby - 06-21-2012, 09:46 AM
RE: Quest -- A Good Steady Rest - by Bill Gruby - 06-21-2012, 11:34 AM
RE: Quest -- A Good Steady Rest - by Bill Gruby - 06-21-2012, 11:43 AM
RE: Quest -- A Good Steady Rest - by Bill Gruby - 06-21-2012, 11:50 AM
RE: Quest -- A Good Steady Rest - by Bill Gruby - 06-21-2012, 12:00 PM
RE: Quest -- A Good Steady Rest - by doubleboost - 06-21-2012, 05:02 PM
RE: Quest -- A Good Steady Rest - by Bill Gruby - 06-22-2012, 07:19 AM
RE: Quest -- A Good Steady Rest - by Bill Gruby - 06-22-2012, 09:54 AM
RE: Quest -- A Good Steady Rest - by Bill Gruby - 06-22-2012, 09:58 AM
RE: Quest -- A Good Steady Rest - by ScrapMetal - 06-22-2012, 03:06 PM
RE: Quest -- A Good Steady Rest - by doubleboost - 06-22-2012, 03:19 PM
RE: Quest -- A Good Steady Rest - by Mayhem - 06-22-2012, 09:54 PM
RE: Quest -- A Good Steady Rest - by DaveH - 06-23-2012, 07:06 AM
RE: Quest -- A Good Steady Rest - by November X-ray - 06-23-2012, 08:13 AM
RE: Quest -- A Good Steady Rest - by ozzie46 - 06-23-2012, 08:38 AM
RE: Quest -- A Good Steady Rest - by Bill Gruby - 06-23-2012, 12:52 PM
RE: Quest -- A Good Steady Rest - by ETC57 - 06-25-2012, 09:16 PM
RE: Quest -- A Good Steady Rest - by Highpower - 06-26-2012, 06:45 AM
RE: Quest -- A Good Steady Rest - by ETC57 - 06-27-2012, 01:39 PM
RE: Quest -- A Good Steady Rest - by Bill Gruby - 07-04-2012, 12:41 PM
RE: Quest -- A Good Steady Rest - by stevec - 07-04-2012, 05:30 PM
RE: Quest -- A Good Steady Rest - by TomG - 06-27-2012, 03:11 PM
RE: Quest -- A Good Steady Rest - by Bill Gruby - 06-29-2012, 06:47 AM
RE: Quest -- A Good Steady Rest - by krv3000 - 06-27-2012, 06:25 PM
RE: Quest -- A Good Steady Rest - by b4dyc - 06-28-2012, 04:22 PM



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