What is this I hear you cry,

Why it's the handle for my new tailstock camlock of course.

Thanks Blame,

it took a few days, and I think I've scratched a bald spot into my head, but I got there in the end.

Thanks Titaniumboy

So the clamp plate, I made myself, I decided to make a new one, so that I still had the original if things went wrong, the Cam receiver was made from some steel hex stock which is tapped M8, and cross drilled  7.5mm to accommodate the cam.

The clamp bolt is made from steel, and is threaded M8 on both ends, to attach it to the receiver and the clamp plate.

Finally the cam was made by offsetting a bar of steel in the chuck.

Thanks Sammy

Yeah I used the ball tuner that I made last week to make the handle, I'm just in the process of making a handle for the ball turner, then anything else that "needs" a handle.

To make the handle, I drilled and tapped a bit of stock, then mounted it onto an arbour, then made it into a handle, then took it off the arbour and screwed it on.

This camlock has really made it much easier to use the lathe.

I really reccommend it as a project.