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Although the travelling steady is handy its a right pain in the backside at time or at least I find it difficult to set up when making smaller parts
Around a year ago I was involved in the restoration of an automaton that require nearly ten feet of bronze at 0.078 dia and no way could I get the traditional fixed steady to produce that amount
Looking around I cam on a picture of a button steady and made one to fit my machine, The inserted button is made for the dia of the bar and the cutting tool is set to cut to the dia needed
Worked pretty  well for a lash up and has got me out of jail a few times now
A very rough vid of it in use

cheers
frazer