tailstock

Preposition: of

• lathe: Jacking up the headstock and tailstock of a lathe is nothing new, as shown by this late 1920's machine.

Converse of object

• taper: The No. 4 Morse taper tailstock was fitted with a rack drive and two clamping plates.

Adjective modifier

• adjustable: The sketch also shows an adjustable tailstock with a threaded cranked handle.

Modifies a noun

• chuck: Buy a tailstock chuck, or how else are you going to drill central holes in your work?
• barrel: The tailstock barrel was lever operated through the simple expedient of peg passing through a slot cut through the top of the casting.
• spindle: I had to reduce the tailstock spindle slightly to fit the chuck capacity of the Unimat.
• end: These are 9-inch " Workshop " machines each with a build sheet hanging from the tailstock end of its bed.
• center: The blank for the body is drilled with a pilot hole for the screw on the mark made by the tailstock center.
• casting: Unfortunately the barrel was locked by a pinch bolt closing down a long slit in the metal of the tailstock casting.

Noun used with modifier

• lever-action: Available as extras were an electric motor with a drive pulley, a round foot stand for bench mounting and a lever-action tailstock.