Well, after just checking it was off horizontally and vertically.wdteipen wrote:Which direction is it off, horizontal or vertical? Horizontal is easy. There should be a bolt or screw on both sides of your tailstock body. Loosen one while tightening the other until you get it back on center. If it's vertical, the only fix is to shim unless something else in the setup is out of whack.
When I get famous like you maybe then I'll buy a real lathe. 
Chris, I adjusted the Horizontal, it's the Vertical now and we aint gona worry about it but, thank you sir.caskwith wrote:Horizontal alignment is the most important, vertical doesn't matter so much unless it is very bad. Reason being you cut on the horizontal plan so any misalignment causes a taper in the work piece.
To set it up easily you need a steel rule and 2 brand new dead centres.
Drills usually self centre to some degree. Best way to ensure proper sized drilled is to drill undersize and then ream to final size. Even if your tailstock is off a little you should still get good results this way.wdteipen wrote:Actually, being off horizontal and/or vertical will result in oversized drilling but Chris is right that vertical doesn't matter for other functions of the lathe. The only thing it will mess up is your mortise size but if you're cutting integral tenons it's not really a big deal. If you're using Delrin it creates a pretty frustrating situation.
RDPowell wrote:Strange, cause it hasn't seem to give me a problem drilling an oversize hole at all and I use Delrin. The only thing I've noticed is the when I turn a shank on a stummel and then turn a stem they never seem to match. In other words one is off set from the other. This I thought was due to the center drill of the mortise in both stem and shank. Am I wrong and may this be cause by maybe a chuck's jaw being out of wack?
No sir, Not till all work on stummel is done then I chuck up a rod to turn, drill, and mortise for tenon. But, I have just left the stummel on the chuck and removed the chuck and all and used a different 3 jaw self centering chuck for rod stock. And then when finished replaced the chuck with the stummel back on the lathe and turned the stem while inserted in the shank to do minor adjustments in size to match shank using a live center of course and they still came out differentcaskwith wrote:RDPowell wrote:Strange, cause it hasn't seem to give me a problem drilling an oversize hole at all and I use Delrin. The only thing I've noticed is the when I turn a shank on a stummel and then turn a stem they never seem to match. In other words one is off set from the other. This I thought was due to the center drill of the mortise in both stem and shank. Am I wrong and may this be cause by maybe a chuck's jaw being out of wack?
If you drill and turn at the same time then things should be concentric. Are you removing the work at any point?
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