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Morse taper tooling has various lengths and features on the small end. Seems like most of the older ones have tangs of a standard length. There are also lots of oddball shorter lengths out there. Before tapping a new MT tool into your tailstock arbor, make sure it will eject first, or you might be sorry when you want to take it out. If the taper is not ejecting, there is often an adjustable screw in the center of the quill handle for adjusting the contact point of ejection, which 'might' reach the tool. Still, if you make the adjustment fit your shortest tools, then your longest tools will not be able to get deep enough to seat. An easy workaround is to push an appropriate length of round stock into the quill before installing the tool, as a spacer. If it is the correct length you will be able to seat the tool and also eject it after use. You will have to fish the spacer out after removing the tool, but it will be loose, not stuck, and it is downhill toward the exit. A small magnet on a stick will pull it right out. Another thing you will notice is that longer shanks will give you an effectively shorter quill travel...