Now I just screwed the dial onto the protruding, threaded portion of screw until the thrust ring was in light contact with the plate. I then applied a small drop of CA glue to the threads through the rear end of hole on the fat end of dial and allowed the glue fill the thread gap and fully cure. Adjusting the tail stock is now a cinch. Loosening the side clamp and simply turning the knob in the direction you want to displace the tail stock is all that is needed. You get a direct reading of the actual displacement in thousands of an inch.
Clockwise rotation pulls the tail stock back toward the rear of bed or away from the operator.
Turning the knob counterclockwise, pushes the tail stock to the front or towards the operator. It actually took a lot longer to explain and put this on paper than to build it, mainly due to my inherent long winded manner of explaining things. E-mail Jose Rodriguez about this article Back to the Taig page.