What's it???

[Bob Jones]

I bought an old Delta lathe and found this piece squirreled away in the storage cabinet. I googled the number (as best I can read it) and can not figure out what it is. The hole in the middle is fully threaded. I don't even know if it goes with this lathe, but I can't stand not knowing what it is. Any ideas?

[Ken Fitzgerald]

It looks like the lock piece on the bottom of your banjo or the bottom of a tail stock.....

[Andrew Arndts]

It looks like the lock piece on the bottom of your banjo or the bottom of a tail stock.....
I concur 100%

[Roger Chandler]

yep, to me it looks like a clamping plate that goes on the underneath of your ways to hold a banjo on the lathe.

[Bob Varney]

What they said +1

[Bob Jones]

Well, if that is what it is, it must go with some other lathe or some other accessory that I don't have because the threaded hole is too small for the bolts on my banjo or tailstock. Oh well. Thanks!

[David DeCristoforo]

It's called a gizmet. Every piece of used machinery comes with at least one. Typically it's from another machine entirely but no one could remember what it was for either and that's how it ended up in the box with the machine you bought.