taper

I'm kind of new to this hobby and am a long time lurker and first time poster. I have a Rockwell 10" lathe that needs a tail stock drill chuck and perhaps some day a live center. Problem is I can't figure out what taper to buy - I've read stuff that says it's a modified MT 2 (not sure what to...

While investigating excessive runout on my new-to-me but old-to-the world drill press, I noticed some runs of epoxy around the top of the chuck's taper adapter.... Removing the chuck was not fun but I eventually got it to release. Some previous operator had slathered the taper in epoxy then...

Hi there, I just want to share my biggest machinist success. Finally I managed to finish my adapter from Van Norman taper to MT2, after countless evenings of frustration and small progress. I got 0.02mm of runout on the tool, it's not that bad considering I have used almost exclusively Amazon...

Hi there, I would like to share my setup to grind the spindle taper, may be it will be useful to someone. It was very badly pitted apparently from years of misuse so I got the carriage of my small lathe and the grinder.

One of the reasons I bought this lathe, and the tooling, expensive block of aluminum and well, let's just say I spent $2500 so far to make a $50 set of velocity stacks. Its about the adventure! Anyway, the picture attached is ballpark what i want to do. How do you pull off that taper? Would...

Hi folks, I have a question about my lathe that I seem to get a lot of conflicting information on when I scour the internet. It's about the spindle taper dimensions. It's really unclear what exactly I need to suit my needs with regards to a 5C spindle adapter. I have read countless times that...

I am the wife of one of your members and I want to purchase a new Drill Chuck for my husband's mini mill / lathe because the old Chinese chuck won't always tighten and the key is very sloppy. I would like to get a keyless chuck and a machinery place has an ad for "any Jacob's chuck for $95"...