Boring Bar: Driven Between Centres, with a Set-Screw Cutter (Yates, 1922)

A home-made boring bar for holes too long for an ordinary boring tool, which would spring. A short, stiff bar runs between the lathe centres, driven by a dog, and carries a hardened tool-steel cutter locked in a cross-hole by a set screw. The work is bolted to the lathe carriage and fed past the turning cutter. Result: a boring bar, plus the small short-cut bar of Fig. 110. Source: R. F. Yates, Lathe Work for Beginners (1922), pp. 134-136. Unknown: bar diameter and set-screw size. Picture: Figs. 110-111 of the book.