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I'm progressing slowly in Gingery's book, The Metal Shaper (#3 in the Build Your Own Metal Shop From Scrap series, in I'm reading all the books in order). He says on p.14, as he did in the earlier volume on The Metal Lathe, that you can get a #1 Morse taper from the Sears tool catalogue. I ordered the Sears tool catalogue (Craftsman Power and Hand Tools 2004-2005) and am unable to find any mention of a #1 Morse taper. So maybe things have changed since he wrote the book. Which catalogue should I be looking in? Let me emphasize that I don't actually *need* a #1 Morse taper right now. At this stage, I'm just reading the books and trying to visualize everything in them and check certain details. I'm not building anything and don't have any kind of shop yet. Ignorantly, Allan Adler ************************************************** ************************** * * * Disclaimer: I am a guest and *not* a member of the MIT Artificial * * Intelligence Lab. My actions and comments do not reflect * * in any way on MIT. Moreover, I am nowhere near the Boston * * metropolitan area. * * * ************************************************** ************************** |
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Thanks. I now see that they are on p.152 of the Tool Catalogue. If I had
searched for "morse taper" at the Sears website, I might have found these items but I think I wouldn't have realized that they were also in the catalogue. Ignorantly, Allan Adler ************************************************** ************************** * * * Disclaimer: I am a guest and *not* a member of the MIT Artificial * * Intelligence Lab. My actions and comments do not reflect * * in any way on MIT. Moreover, I am nowhere near the Boston * * metropolitan area. * * * ************************************************** ************************** |
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In article , Allan Adler says...
Which catalogue should I be looking in? Not in the Sears one. Don't purchase machine tooling from them, it will be a waste of your time. Catalogs have a wealth of information in them so you should have a copy of the McMaster Carr catalog and the MSC one as well, for spicy reading. Both of those will go a long way to explaining what kinds of tooling are available to do various jobs. Jim ================================================== please reply to: JRR(zero) at yktvmv (dot) vnet (dot) ibm (dot) com ================================================== |
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Allan Adler wrote in message ...
I'm progressing slowly in Gingery's book, The Metal Shaper (#3 in the Build Your Own Metal Shop From Scrap series, in I'm reading all the books in order). He says on p.14, as he did in the earlier volume on The Metal Lathe, that you can get a #1 Morse taper from the Sears tool catalogue. I ordered the Sears tool catalogue (Craftsman Power and Hand Tools 2004-2005) and am unable to find any mention of a #1 Morse taper. So maybe things have changed since he wrote the book. Which catalogue should I be looking in? Let me emphasize that I don't actually *need* a #1 Morse taper right now. At this stage, I'm just reading the books and trying to visualize everything in them and check certain details. I'm not building anything and don't have any kind of shop yet. Ignorantly, Allan Adler A #1 Morse taper WHAT? Arbor? Drill bit? Center? Reamer? All of these and other tools besides have, or can be supplied with, Morse taper shanks. I can't figure out how a #1 Morse taper anything would go onto a shaper, the taper is used for holding tools against rotation, like in a drill press, mill or lathe. Sears has changed what they supply considerably in the last decade, they used to catalog a lot of stuff of interest to the home machining crowd, it's mostly gone. There's some stuff that fits the wood lathes they used to have, that's about it. Supply and demand, demand must be down for the stuff, at least from Sears, so now is supply. On the other hand, industrial supply outfits are more willing to do business on a onesie-twosie basis than they were in the past. One outfit that I've used a lot is MSC, they've got an oulet here in town, but www.mscdirect.com gets you into their search engine, the catalog is online, you can get a searchable CD for free, too. There are others, I'm sure they'll get mentioned. Stan |
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(Stan Schaefer) writes:
A #1 Morse taper WHAT? Arbor? Drill bit? Center? Reamer? All of these and other tools besides have, or can be supplied with, Morse taper shanks. I can't figure out how a #1 Morse taper anything would go onto a shaper, the taper is used for holding tools against I just took another look at what Gingery writes in The Metal Shaper, p.14: "You can order a 1/2" hand tighten chuck with a #1 Morse taper shank from Sears tool catalog." I think I need to spend more time using my dictionary when I read Gingery's books. The word "shank", for example, was not in my vocabulary and I just tuned it out, thinking that the main term was probably "Morse taper", which I didn't realize was purely descriptive. In my dictionary, I find among the many meanings of "shank": "the part, usually straight or stemlike, between the top or handle and the working part; shaft: said of instruments or tools." Well, I guess that that is sufficiently imprecise that it might not have helped me in this case. Ignorantly, Allan Adler ************************************************** ************************** * * * Disclaimer: I am a guest and *not* a member of the MIT Artificial * * Intelligence Lab. My actions and comments do not reflect * * in any way on MIT. Moreover, I am nowhere near the Boston * * metropolitan area. * * * ************************************************** ************************** |
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