slide rest

noun

engineering a stack of platforms that sits on a lathe saddle and carries a tool post, and is adjustable in rotation and at right angles by a lathe operator

The pedestal must of course be free to rotate, and the slide rest to slip up and down the bed.

Following the invention of the lathe and the slide-rest, came the metal-planing machines.

Any modern worker is spared this labour and worry by the device known as the Slide-Rest.

By means of the slide-rest the negative may be moved up or down to any desired position.

Fig. 14 shows an inside tool for the slide rest; its point may be modified according to the work to be done.

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