Originally Posted by
gromit68
.....I also considered that I could make a new "front cover" that included a flat back, that I could drill and tap for this kind of work.
I'm curious what others are doing to locate work in hard jaws or thru-bored soft jaws.
This what we have done on several lathes. For work that is longer than the depth of the chuck jaws but small in diameter we weld a blanked off tube onto the new cover plate and fasten stops into the bottom of the tube.
An open mind is a virtue...so long as all the common sense has not leaked out.