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Many woodturning accessories (centers, arbors, etc.) have Morse tapers
with solid shafts and no tangs. Recently, in a junior moment, I put such a center into a MT2 to MT2 extender. The extender has a tang slot, but the center's taper did not reach it. I really leaned on the handwheel to secure a heavy blank. Now I own a dedicated extender with a built in Nova spur center. So far heat, cold, WD40, pounding, hammer drill, cursing and sweet talk haven't prevailed against that reluctant taper. I tried a short pin thru the slot and into the hole to reach the center's tip so as to use a drift. To get thru the slot the pin had to be so much smaller than the hole that the drift canted the pin and it wouldn't budge the center. Moral: when you insert a taper, be sure you have a way of removing it! Arch Fortiter, |