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Now, that stop rod I was talking about? Most home-shop and hobby size lathes have just one rod going across the front of the bed,
to drive the carriage; a combination leadscrew and drive rod. It usually has threads- as a leadscrew needs- and a slot so that a keyed
spool can drive off of it for fine feeds. This Monster, however, has four rods. A leadscrew, a separate slotted drive rod,
a clutch-engagement rod, and the feed/threading stop rod. The bottommost one was the clutch rod, which,
out at the tailstock-end support, had this detent to keep it in position.





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