Sears lathe, model # 149.23871

Good luck. I have been looking for the entire live center with the cup point for a while. Found an entire tail stock on E-Bay and even it was missing the center.

Scrappy

-- Scrap Wood's the best...the projects are smaller, and so is the mess!

hi, i went threw the same deal
i misplaced the live center for my older sears lathe. so what i did was measure the thread pitch on the tail stock 3/4 16 and found a jacobs chuck on ebay to fit(10.50 with shipping) it is a half-inch chuck so it will take a morse taper#1 live center. found an ok #1 morse taper live center at www.woodcraft.com for 15 bucks and i am now back in business

elrockk, Did you say your TAIL STOCK has 3/4×16 threads? That is the size of my head stock.(drive side)

The tailstock is 1/2×20? (fine thread) or mabey mine is different from yours.

Scrappy

-- Scrap Wood's the best...the projects are smaller, and so is the mess!

my mistake, yes it is 1/2 20 on the tail stock.but the 1/2 inch jacobs chuck will take a #1 morse taper live center

Thanks Elrockk

Will check into that.

Scrappy

-- Scrap Wood's the best...the projects are smaller, and so is the mess!

My problem was solved at the local hardware store. Found a 5/16×3/4” bronze bushing, which fit inside the tailstock and a Vermont countersink bit that fit inside the bushing. Just enough play for a little beeswax. If I can find a ball bearing to insert, it would probably be even better.