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Brilliant! I'd been trying to come up with a way to make a similar part, I was thinking it would be a big unbalanced faceplate job, or thread a full bore, cut a segment out of it and braze it to a body. Your way looks much more convenient.I bought one of these when I had (still have - just doesn't get used) a minilathe:
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The idea was to do some milling, but the whole arrangement turned out not to be very rigid, not enough travel, awkward to set up, so I bought a milling machine. I nearly sold this a couple of years ago but the potential buyer lost interest / pulled out and I'd already got seller's remorse so I hung on to it. I've since put it to good use on my M300 machining a threading follower for another lathe thats still WIP:
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All cast iron construction, very rigid. I think it's a modification of a type designed to fit a Myford lathe. Bought from Warco. £124 now, but out of stock at the mo.