Taper Attachment for a Turn-Pro Lathe?

[randyjaco]

Thanks Pixman,
At this point I am in research mode. The biggest problem, as you said, is figuring out how to best handle the cross slide screw. I need to figure out something so I have a quick and easy set up and take down. I have gotten along without a TA for @10 years now, so I am in no screaming hurry. But it would be nice to have a TA for the 1-3 times a year I would use it
I would also like to tackle the challenge of building one.

Randy

(01-15-2013, 10:55 AM)PixMan Wrote: Many of the parts for a taper attachment are easy to make, including the clamp that grips the ways, the slide, follower and rod. The hard part is the alterations you would have to make to the cross slide. On some machines the thread and nut that are normally used for in & out need to be able to "disconnect" in a way to allow the cross slide to follow the angle-set slide. Other machines, such as my 1970's era Victor (Tai-Chung) lathe uses the normal cross slide though adds a mechanism to pull or push the inboard end of the cross slide.

Perhaps you can look around the internet for various mechanisms that lathes have used for this. I wish I had time to help, because at aome point I'd like to make one for my own lathe and the parts list doesn't have good scaleable illustrations of the parts.

Best of luck!