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I think that's the important part which has not been mentioned till now "use the tailstock for support right up to parting off".
That's when things become unreliable when removing the tailstock and gaining a confidence in the pin or maybe being over confident and knocking it off bonk or splitting the blank.
All of which I have done and do speak from experience.

[QUOTE="Grump, post: 62385, member: 232"] I think that's the important part which has not been mentioned till now "use the tailstock for support right up to parting off". That's when things become unreliable when removing the tailstock and gaining a confidence in the pin or maybe being over confident and knocking it off bonk or splitting the blank. All of which I have done and do speak from experience. [/QUOTE]

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