slide rest
Britishnoun
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Back rest, a guide attached to the slide rest of a lathe, and placed in contact with the work, to steady it in turning.-
From Project Gutenberg
The pointer should be soft, and not a cutting tool, unless indeed it be set so high in the slide rest that it cannot cut.
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But the body of the head may show true at the corners while the journals do not run true, and if this is the case we may further test the body of the head as follows: With the lathe slide rest at one end of the head we may set a pointer so that it will just pass on the flat of the cutter seat and make a mark when the slide rest is traversed along the lathe bed.
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We then move the slide rest so as to bring the pointer to the journal end of the head; give the head a half a revolution on the centres and try the pointer on the flat of the cutter seat, and if it makes a mark of equal strength, then two faces of the head are equidistant from the axis of the head.
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