{"id":187,"date":"2011-06-21T00:09:38","date_gmt":"2011-06-21T05:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edplese.com\/blog\/?p=187"},"modified":"2011-06-21T00:10:49","modified_gmt":"2011-06-21T05:10:49","slug":"quick-change-tool-post-bolt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edplese.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/21\/quick-change-tool-post-bolt\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick Change Tool Post Bolt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I purchased my <a title=\"Grizzly G0602\" href=\"http:\/\/grizzly.com\/products\/G0602\">Grizzly G0602<\/a> 10&#215;22 metal lathe one of the first projects I had in mind was to mount an AXA-size quick change tool post on it.\u00a0 Most of the methods I found online for doing this required either modifying the tool post mounting plate that came with the lathe or creating a suitable replacement with a threaded hole to fit with the quick change tool post bolt.\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t want to modify the mounting plate and creating one from scratch would have been a challenge without a mill so instead opted to create a new tool post bolt.<\/p>\n<p>To do this I started with a 1\/2&#8243; x 3.5&#8243; bolt, turned down the end, and  then threaded it with metric threads to fit the mounting plate.\u00a0 In the end it turned out to be a quick and simple that has worked very well.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-187 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.edplese.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/qctpbolts.jpg'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.edplese.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/qctpbolts-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-188\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-188'>\n\t\t\t\tOriginal bolt, finished replacement, stock tool post bolt.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.edplese.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/qctpwithbolt.jpg'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.edplese.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/qctpwithbolt-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-190\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-190'>\n\t\t\t\tMounted quick change tool post.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl>\n\t\t\t<br style='clear: both' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I purchased my Grizzly G0602 10&#215;22 metal lathe one of the first projects I had in mind was to mount an AXA-size quick change tool post on it.\u00a0 Most of the methods I found online for doing this required either modifying the tool post mounting plate that came with the lathe or creating a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[19,18],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edplese.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edplese.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edplese.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edplese.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edplese.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.edplese.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199,"href":"https:\/\/www.edplese.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions\/199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edplese.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edplese.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edplese.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}