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I decided it was time to get a tail stock for my Yantai RT. I have some shaft work that I have to do. So I ordered the one from the company. http://yantaiuniversal.en.alibaba.co...Tailstock.html
Looking at their picture it was just what I wanted so I picked the proper size for my 8" RT.
Well when I opened the crate it was like what the heck did they do send me left hand model?????? The center is facing the opposite direction from what is shown in the picture. Had I know that I probably wouldn't have bought it. It will work but you have to turn it around which puts the lock lever in the back and just makes for an awkward set up. I've never seen one like this. After contacting the dealer that I purchased it from and explaining the situation, he checked all the others in stock and contacted the mfg. It appears that only this size tail stock is like this, all the others look like the one in the picture. My guess is it was either made for some index head or spacer that mounts on the right hand side of the mills table or some one screwed up and ran a bunch of these parts in reverse and said, well we screwed up lets sell them anyway, who will notice........ well I did. I asked him if he could just send me the head from a different TS but said he couldn't so he offered to take it back and will be sending me a pre-paid return label.
The other thing I noticed is that the two keys on the base of the fixture are about 3/32" smaller than the slot in the table so they don't serve any purpose as far as aligning the TS with the Rt's center, but that would be an easy fix as I could have mad a pair of offset keys to align with the RT. The keys on the RT fit the table slot with almost no play as they should.
JL...........................
Looking at their picture it was just what I wanted so I picked the proper size for my 8" RT.
Well when I opened the crate it was like what the heck did they do send me left hand model?????? The center is facing the opposite direction from what is shown in the picture. Had I know that I probably wouldn't have bought it. It will work but you have to turn it around which puts the lock lever in the back and just makes for an awkward set up. I've never seen one like this. After contacting the dealer that I purchased it from and explaining the situation, he checked all the others in stock and contacted the mfg. It appears that only this size tail stock is like this, all the others look like the one in the picture. My guess is it was either made for some index head or spacer that mounts on the right hand side of the mills table or some one screwed up and ran a bunch of these parts in reverse and said, well we screwed up lets sell them anyway, who will notice........ well I did. I asked him if he could just send me the head from a different TS but said he couldn't so he offered to take it back and will be sending me a pre-paid return label.
The other thing I noticed is that the two keys on the base of the fixture are about 3/32" smaller than the slot in the table so they don't serve any purpose as far as aligning the TS with the Rt's center, but that would be an easy fix as I could have mad a pair of offset keys to align with the RT. The keys on the RT fit the table slot with almost no play as they should.
JL...........................
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