Hello group, Due to illness I have been forced to reduce the scale of my engineering activities, thus this is my first posting to this group. I hope it is relevant! I have purchased a very small second-hand lathe (it has no identifying manufacturers mark). It appears to have been manufactured to imperial standards. The tailstock id fitted with a dead centre which is in a parallel bore of
0.75 inch with a keyway and a thread which protrudes from the back of the tailstock for adjustment. I would like to replace the dead centre with a chuck (preferably at least 3/8 inch capacity, but all the tailstock chucks I can find have a morse taper fitting. Does anyone make an adaptor or is there some recognised way of overcoming this problem. In case it becomes relevant, the height of the dead centre point above the bed is 2.5 inches and the top of the bed on which the tailstock runs is a dovetail 2 inches wide.TIA Peter