This week we’re making a tailstock die holder for the lathe. We have some projects coming up soon that will require external threads, and using a die will be a lot easier than single-pointing the threads.
If you’d like to build one yourself, drawings are available:
Tailstock Die Holder Drawing v3Here are some of the tools used:
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