Carriage Stop

[Brent H]

Typical small lathe stop is just that - manually dial the apron in until you stop. On larger lathes that have the stop as an “option” it will typically trip the feed - like a milling machine down feed- the feed stops. The apron feed on the smaller lathes is “hopefully” adjusted to stop the lathe from crashing itself to death, however, if you look at stopping the assembly it can be quite difficult. Most times your chuck outer faces will be milling the snot out of your carriage and compound with no stop in site.
My build of a “stop” will be for a micrometer stop and an indicator mount but both hand advance verses power drive.

 

[PeterT]

Car analogy. You can run into something a little bit, sacrifice a bumper but minimize damage to the expensive parts. Better yet, integrate alerts & brake system so you don't run into something to begin with. Better yet, BOTH!

 

[Hruul]

Looks great. I am part way through making one for my dial indicator. Project got halted to do some woodworking, and have not gotten back to it. Thanks for the inspiration to get back at it.

 

[YotaBota]

When I made mine for the SM9, I used the body from thecogwheel with the thimble from Tom's Technique.
http://tomstechniques.com/micrometer-carriage-stop/
I haven't added the division marks yet but it works well.