MORGAN PIVOT POLISHER
FOR SMALL LATHES
Steven G. Conover

Are you tired of using a series of emery sticks, polishing stones, or gravers on each pivot?

Morgan Clock Co., Dubuque, Iowa, offers a lathe accessory that will interest you.

The Morgan Pivot Polisher (Figures I and 2) polishes a pivot in a few seconds or up to a minute or two, depending on the task.

Mounted to the lathe tailstock, the polisher consists of a hinged frame supporting a carbide polishing wheel and a pivot rest.

The clock arbor is gripped in the headstock and rotated as usual. A drive belt attaches to the polisher and rotates the carbide polishing wheel in the opposite direction from the headstock spindle.

The clockmaker swings the polisher into contact with the pivot. The carbide wheel soon produces a smooth pivot with a sharp, clean shoulder.

The Morgan Pivot Polisher was introduced about three years ago. Earlier this year, subscriber Hank Hirschmann, who is one of four dealers for the polisher, sent me a Sherline-adapted unit for review.

More recently, Jim Mirek, another dealer and subscriber, also called me about the polisher.

Jim was instrumental in obtaining a second unit for review, this one for a watchmaker's lathe.

Now I could try both versions.

Figure 3 shows the polisher installed on my Sherline lathe. A machined brass spindle supports the polisher

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