Woodturning Tool Store - Sizing the Drawbar to fit your lathe

Produced by Tod Raines of Woodturning Tool Store on Oct 2, 2017

Here I show why and how to size a drawbar for your lathe. The drawbar is an important tool to secure Morse taper work-holding devices in the lathe spindle. When using the Elio-DR Safe Drive center without tailstock support is is imperative to use a drawbar.

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[glencrandall]

How tight should the drawbar locking nut be? A great addition to your video would have been to work the drive without a tailstock and drawbar. Also you might point out that there are other drives that require a drawbar when the tailstock is not engaged. Thank you for sharing. Have a great day and stay safe.😀😀

[taktines]

Tod, do you know if your drawbar is the same thread as the Niles bottle stopper mandrels?