leadscrew nut re taper attachment

[TomG]

On my lathe, I just remove the screw that attaches the cross slide to the nut to use the taper attachment. Making the tab on your nut a slip fit shouldn't hurt anything since the screw locks it down anyway. The only possible purpose I can see for it would be to keep the nut from rotating when the screw is tightened, but that seems like over engineering to me since the lead screw does the same thing.

Tom