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This is a drawing of a fixture to mount a die grinder on the toolpost
of your lathe. A poor man's version of a toolpost grinder.  Thanks to 
AL <alicecurtis@worldnet.att.net>. AL provided the following description:


>This fixture is to hold a pneumatic die grinder on the toolpost .
>Be sure to cover the ways to prevent grinding dust from damaging the ways.
>
>Always wear safety glasses.you will break stones and having
>a piece of rock bounce off your nose is bad enough.!!!
>
>The slot can be cut with a bandsaw/hacksaw.
>the reason for the 3/8 dia hole is to permit the
>1/2 13 cap screw to compress the two inch hole
>to hold the Die Grinder. and the 5/16 set screw is to open it up
>when you wish to remove the die grinder.(it tends to lock onto the
>grinder)
>
>pnumatic grinders do not have a lot of power
>therefore it is hard to use them in this way without stalling
>the grinder/breaking the tool/stone. very light loads required.
>
>The step on the back side is to fit your toolholder the dimension
>I used was .990.
>
>The bored hole should be about .01" larger than the diameter of
>your die grinder.