On 11/12/17 18:02, Bob La Londe wrote:
In my playing around I often watch videos on YouTube in the morning
while I have my coffee, or at night when I can't sleep.Â* A lot of them
have some good information in them even if some of it is a little odd
or even sometimes wrong.Â* I try to take what is good and move on.

I watched one the other day that was a sort of interesting trick for
turning tapers "between centers."Â* You put a boring head in the tail
stock.Â* For low angle tapers you can just put a center in the boring
head, and for sharper angles you can use a cup with a ball bearing in
the chuck and the boring head.Â* I get all of that and it makes sense.
What got me and the guy makign the video didn't show (or I missed it) is:

How do you make sure the center or ball bearing cup in the boring head
is on center vertically?

Since I don't have to turn a lot of tapers I thought this might be a
nice stop gap technique instead of making a taper attachment for my
lathe.

You can buy centres which can be offset for just this purpose such as
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Engineers-...d/152801807404
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