"Ignoramus3975" wrote in message
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My clausing lathe cuts tapers instead of straight cylinders.
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The way you did that, any lathe would cut a crappy-finished taper. Try a
test with 2" CRS round sticking out 3". Then cut it with HSS with a rake.
Your set-up might just as well be a rubber rod sticking out 15 diameters and
cutting with a butter knife.