Mini-Lathe - A couple of modifications

It's been a while since I wrote anything about the workshop but recently I made a couple of small modifications to the mini-lathe that I'd like to record in this post. 

First up, a new chip guard made from a 2 mm sheet of perspex, mounted on a steel arm with a strong magnet to sit on top of the lathe:

Secondly, I have modified the sleeve nuts used to retain the splash back - these now comprise a 20 mm spacer and a shorter sleeve nut; the splashback now sits 20 mm further back and is no longer fixed directly to the bed. This means that:

• chips can be pushed into the tray from the splashback and removed from the front
• the cross slide goes to the end of it's travel without hitting the splashback first.