Hello kinda new to this and need some advice .
I turned a piece of bar stock and noticed a taper from one end to another . I also tried turning a barrel and found the same . I didn't want to just start moving the tail stock with out some way of checking it so I made one of the jigs found on youtube.
I didn't have a plunge indicator so I rigged something up till tomorrow. The way I have it it shows about .002 off to the side which seems right because my bar stock had .004 taper from one end to another ?
Here's what I'm not sure of is the offset the same for 2" as say 12" ?
Here's the way I checked it tonight if the local tool shop has a plunge dial I will recheck it.
Also I was getting a way off reading on the topside ?
Thanks Ed
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I turned a piece of bar stock and noticed a taper from one end to another . I also tried turning a barrel and found the same . I didn't want to just start moving the tail stock with out some way of checking it so I made one of the jigs found on youtube.
I didn't have a plunge indicator so I rigged something up till tomorrow. The way I have it it shows about .002 off to the side which seems right because my bar stock had .004 taper from one end to another ?
Here's what I'm not sure of is the offset the same for 2" as say 12" ?
Here's the way I checked it tonight if the local tool shop has a plunge dial I will recheck it.
Also I was getting a way off reading on the topside ?
Thanks Ed
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