Whilst I have been working on the mini lathe I have also been thinking of fitting a rear tool post for the purpose of parting off. Unless anyone can tell me otherwise I cant find a rear tool post that is available for my Amadeal CJ18 lathe, that is probably because there are no fittings or features on the cross slide to fit one.
I can buy a Warco rear tool post for £20 which on their machines fits to a cross slide mounting plate. The Warco cross slide must be slotted as the plate is fixed with T nuts, the plate also takes a milling attachment.
My thinking is to make a mounting plate machined to accept the tool post lower tenon and fasten the plate to my cross slide. My cross slide is 9mm thick and I was thinking four counter bored holes in the plate for cap heads M8 or maybe M6 would be enough..?
A couple of pics below of the tool post and also my cross slide as it is now, I have no experience of rear tool posts so any comments or advice on what I am thinking would be welcome.
Ron


Edited By Ron Laden on 15/12/2018 16:57:41