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This little lathe setup does a great deal of work for me. I use it several times each day. Along with a dial indicator I can shorten a screw, or whatever, to a gnats hair. I wish I could tell you where I got that dremel tool holder, but do not remember. I adapted it to the tool post.

n.r.davis wrote on Apr 1^st, 2023 at 11:10am:

Thanks, Davld. I will check that out. I have a regular Dumore tool post grinder that I use for the serious stiff. Anymore, I don't do a lot of serious stuff!

That's a neat mount there.   I've made an adapter for my South Bend 10" Heavy to hold the handpiece from a Dremel flex-shaft grinder that I bought when I was porting 2-stroke cylinders for race bikes.  Haven't used it much; the spindle bearings are too small and weak, so it can't give a good surface finish, but it's done a couple of I.D. jobs that I couldn't do any other way.

I have used my regular Dremel, hand-held with a cutoff disk, to roughly cut off hard steel stuff like piano wire many times.  Then square up or taper the end as needed with a normal wheel.  This on a bench lathe that will run backward, which my South Bend won't. 

For shortening smalls screws, I use marlinman's method.

It looks as though I might be able to do something similar with my large Foredom flex shaft. Thanks, I will work on it.