Looking for material for solid tool post mount

Evening all,

I am looking for material for the solid tool post mount, a solid block of steel 150mm x 100mm x 65mm or close to those sizes.

I have had a look online but haven’t found anything yet.

Does anyone have any suggestions on where to look?

Thanks

M- machine metals will have something very close and give very good service.

You might also try steel suppliers to the injection mould trade , such as Hasco Inc. at www.hasco.com

Their quality of steel and the quality of finish of the plates is very high. Excellent supplier for high precision tooling steels.

Or ... you could look at the Gibraltar Tool Post from Hemingway.

That looks like a nice hefty chunk of vibration damping easy to machine cast iron all right Mr. Greene. And at a very reasonable price in Canadian dollars even! (probably less in UK due to no trans pond shipping needed)

I almost had one myself some years ago, Jeff. I was looking at them and the late JS said he had the casting and I could have it for free .... then we figured how much it would cost to get it here!

That tool post looks like a very good solution for any myford owner. I would have to modify unfortunately to make it work on my lathe.
I’d like a nice piece of cast to make my solid mount but steel will most likely be what I use.

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I used a backplate casting, which I think came from RDG.

I welded mine together out of a couple of pieces of 1" thick steel plate stacked on top of each other.

Try rapidmetals.co.uk .

William.

... as opposed to making something from scratch? (I don't know your situation of course).

Edited By Peter Greene 🇨🇦 on 24/01/2023 16:56:30

I have actually bought one of those toolposts, but rapid metals are also supplying a block of cast iron for a price I can live with so I have choices.

thanks for the help all, I’ll hopefully get the tool post sorted in the next week or so.

Let us know, Lee!