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Taper questions...
Still doing thinking on my Gingery-esque lathe project-to-be... at the
moment I am wondering about tapers. http://www.motortoolmanufacturing.co...ications.shtml Says that I could bore maybe a MT#2 in the stock I have... but just what kind of minimum wall thickness am I looking at? I know Gingery originally bored a #1 in his 3/4" tailstock ram, and I think same for spindle as well. I've got stock up to 1 1/8" dia. (hehe, annealed torsion bar... maybe not the best for things that apparently should be soft, eh?) which could just barely fit a #3 with like...nil wall left... but how little is too little? Oh, and these are pretty precise things too... I have a 0-1" mic (aka "expensive C clamp") so I could maybe turn some stock to the proper taper and use that for the reference, but what kind of cheap and easy-to-get stuff has a more accurate reference? Speaking of which, I'm not going to want to build my own tailstock chuck...hehe... Tim -- "I have misplaced my pants." - Homer Simpson | Electronics, - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - --+ Metalcasting and Games: http://webpages.charter.net/dawill/tmoranwms |
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