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Tailstock Taper attachment

combustable herbage

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With the beautiful summer and fall we have had its been hard to get back into the shop but I was able to finish this tailstock taper attachment based on a drawing I downloaded, my stock was a bit different sizes so I made it my own I added another set of holes to increase the adjustment available. I used mt2 to jt1 adapter I had and cut the taper into the disk for mounting. The slot turned out really well after a bit of stoning its a perfect fit. I added the center reference not sure yet if I will tick off marks as the drawing had. I reused a center point I had made long ago. I haven't tried it yet but hope to soon.

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Did you consider a live center instead?

I have started something similar. I found an old MT3 with tang boring head in my old mill tools drawer. It prolly came with my mill/drill. My lathe has an MT3 tailstock that will acommodate a tang so I've been playing with using the boring head to offset a live center. It seems to be not so easy.......
 
You had me at tailstock!
Can you, will you, share those drawings?
Nice work! Great execution!

Thanks for sharing
Yes, please for the drawing(s); I have a small straight shank live center (I can’t remember where I got it) that could be incorporated. Thanks!!
 
Yes, please for the drawing(s); I have a small straight shank live center (I can’t remember where I got it) that could be incorporated. Thanks!!

How about a photo of you holding your little live center?
 
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