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Turning tapers can be a pain without a taper attachment. Moving the tailstock means that you have to put it back.
Using a boring head from the mill is another simple way of doing it. I will show that in detail later.
You do need a couple of special things.
1. A Morse Taper shaft for your boring head to fit you tail stock.
2. A live center without a Morse Taper but a shaft diameter to fit your boring head.
I will come back to number 2 later in this post.
Number 1 is easier, but a little pricey. For example my boring head is small with a thread of 7/8-20 and enco has them for $30.
But on ebay I found one for $10 with shipping, but it has 1/2-20 threads. Being cheap like I am I decided to adapter it.
These are the steps I took.
I started with this:
I cut the tang off of it (not necessary) and Turned, Tapped and Faced off the correct size of material
The I mount it in the headstock using the morse taper itself so I know it will be nice and true.
To make sure it doesn't un-thread I drilled a hole from the end in half of each part and drove in a roll pin.
Here I'm cutting the roll pin flush.
Then I form a blank for the threads.
Then thread it.
And it fits!
Here is is completed
And installed
As soon as I get the live center I ordered I'll show what I do to that.
Gary
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Using a boring head from the mill is another simple way of doing it. I will show that in detail later.
You do need a couple of special things.
1. A Morse Taper shaft for your boring head to fit you tail stock.
2. A live center without a Morse Taper but a shaft diameter to fit your boring head.
I will come back to number 2 later in this post.
Number 1 is easier, but a little pricey. For example my boring head is small with a thread of 7/8-20 and enco has them for $30.
But on ebay I found one for $10 with shipping, but it has 1/2-20 threads. Being cheap like I am I decided to adapter it.
These are the steps I took.
I started with this:
I cut the tang off of it (not necessary) and Turned, Tapped and Faced off the correct size of material
The I mount it in the headstock using the morse taper itself so I know it will be nice and true.
To make sure it doesn't un-thread I drilled a hole from the end in half of each part and drove in a roll pin.
Here I'm cutting the roll pin flush.
Then I form a blank for the threads.
Then thread it.
And it fits!
Here is is completed
And installed
As soon as I get the live center I ordered I'll show what I do to that.
Gary
View attachment 97954