7/4/2022 update:
I did a little fiddling on the lathe today. I made two more Tommy bars. What I started with were two punch blanks that my dad had picked up from somewhere eons (50 years?) ago (or maybe he even made them in school shop, who knows). They had never been hardened, so I used two of them as a starting point.
I know, there's too much of the work hanging out the end of the chuck. The through hole in the spindle didn't allow the punch to go in any further, so I made do.
The finished products. They work well. I don't know if I should attempt to harden them at all or just leave well enough alone. I'll keep the two smaller Tommy bars I made for backups.
The next (and possibly final) project on the lathe was to make a knob for the zeroing pin in the headstock base (the literature calls the pin a "marker pin"). This pin keeps the head stock zeroed for most lathe operations and is supposed to have a small hex head cap on it but the cap was missing. Someone probably unscrewed the cap thinking it had something to do with disassembly of the lathe.
Below is what the cap is supposed to look like:
I had cut a piece of brass and was all ready to form something in the lathe when I decided to look in a catch-all bin, as I might have something that would work. I came across several brass balls in the bin. I drilled a hole in one and tapped it for 8-32 threads. To the untrained eye it looks like it could be original. It's got Patina, baby! Yeah, yeah, it's an over-used term these days.
I found this ad from 1975 on the net. I think my lathe is from the 1960s or earlier but it is pretty much the same as in this ad.
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