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Definition of Tailstock
1. Noun. Support consisting of the movable part of a lathe that slides along the bed in alignment with the headstock and is locked into position to support the free end of the workpiece.
Definition of Tailstock
1. n. The sliding block or support, in a lathe, which carries the dead spindle, or adjustable center. The headstock supports the live spindle.
Definition of Tailstock
1. Noun. The part of a lathe that holds the object being worked along its rotatory axis ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tailstock
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tailstock
Literary usage of Tailstock
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Machine Tool Operation by Henry D. Burghardt (1919)
"The tailstock.—The tailstock complete comprises the tailstock spindle; the
tailstock slide in which is bored the housing for the spindle; the base which is ..."
2. Machine Tool Operation by Henry D. Burghardt (1922)
"For example, if it is necessary to change the position of the tailstock to ...
The movement of the tailstock spindle to put in or remove the work is not ..."
3. Grinding and Lapping Tools: Processes and Fixtures; a Practical Treatise and by Joseph Vincent Woodworth (1907)
"SPECIAL CENTER FOR tailstock On plain grinders, grinding such work as Fig. ...
The tailstock moves crossways of the grinder plates, and all adjustments for ..."
4. Practical Mechanical Drawing and Machine Design, Self Taught by Charles Westinghouse (1906)
"tailstock for 12-inch Lathe. Two views of this tailstock are shown in Fig. 171.
On Fig. 176—Details of Surface Gauge. one of these views a few of the ..."
5. Popular Mechanics Shop Notes (1911)
"Setting Lathe tailstock for Turning Tapers It is sometimes necessary to figure
the amount to set over the tailstock in turning a taper where there is no ..."
6. Machine Tools and Their Operation by Fred Herbert Colvin, Frank Arthur Stanley (1922)
"2 inch on a side, and we set the tailstock over 1/2 inch ... If the tailstock
has been set over just ys inch, the outside will be the correct taper, ..."
7. Shop Mathematics: A Treatise on Applied Mathematics Dealing with Various by Erik Oberg, Franklin Day Jones (1920)
"When a lathe is not provided with a taper attachment, the tailstock center is
set over from its central position an amount depending upon the amount of ..."
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