Clarke CL300 with dodgy Tailstock

[cropwell]

Actually I have2 of the little sods, from a CL300M One has a quill with a damaged thread and the other is just the 2 casting pieces, but the top piece of it has a crumbled thread where a groove in the quill slides in a grub screw.

I have gone over to the camlock tailstock from ARC and it is a lot easier than pissing about with a spanner.

BTW I gave up trying to drill accurately, I spent a lot of time aligning the head and tail stocks. I took the chuck off and used an M3 taper centre in the head and the M2 in the tail. Height and Lateral were set up OK, but I don't think the stocks are on the same axis.

I have got a PDF of the CL300M user guide and parts list if you want it, but you can probably download it from the Clarke's website.

Anyway, you can have what you like of these bits and I don't want anything for them. They are going back into the garage after their 15 minutes of fame.

Regards, Rob

[booski]

Cheers Rob, much appreciated.

So that's definitely a thumbs up then for the tailstock from Arc? and it's fairly reliable, easy to setup, accurate etc?