The tailstock Some time ago I bought an old series Boley Leinen lever tailstock to be fitted to my lathe. This is the tailstock: It is of the old type because it uses a split casting to lock the barrel as you can see in the picture. Leinen buid two flavors of this tailstock: one with a barrel that takes 363E collets (the 25mm collets) and other that takes the 323E collets (15mm collets).

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Some months ago I bought an old Boley-Leinen collet closer. The gadget is almost complete but: It lacks the supporting bars The ball plungers were broken The collet closer levers were broken The cosmetic was not at its best The collet closer as bought The following picture shows the collet closer assembled as usual: Below, you can see some details of the parts. In the first picture, you can see the closer body.

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I bought in german ebay a four jaws independent chuck with DIN 55022 number 4 fitting. This was not the kind of independent chuck I prefer for the Leinen lathe. I would prefered those kind of “old” chucks which are lighter than the modern ones. Having found no provider for these lighter chucks, finally I went for this one. The chuck can be seen in this picture: The chuck was in pretty good condition.

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The Leinen LZ4SB lathe cabinet has a drawer that is usually used to store the collets set. This requires to make a wood support to organize the set. I want also to store some usual tools: some live and dead centers and the wrenches needed to operate the lathe. I begin by cutting a couple of plywood pieces to the approximate size of the drawer. I glue them to obtain a thicker plywood support.

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