Here is a closeup of the part that travels on the slide you have. The yellow part connects to the cross slide. The holes ringed in red bolt the the saddle, the green part clamps to the bed. If you can machine the V slide the rest is easy. I have a Myford one that will work in the same way as this one. You will have to disable the cross slide thread to allow the taper turning attachment to work. Or a second hand one with out having to buy the full kit Thank You GBP.This taper attachment came with my Boxford lathe but had no fittings I was woundering if any one had made the cross slide bar to fit on the cross slide or any of the other fittings the other fittings seem easy to make but the cross slide one not so easy as I may have to remove the cross slide thread to use it. IIRC the other Boxford collet lathe had a much better paintjob, looked almost ready to go, and had a big selection of collets, and went for c. If you know anything about lathes you’d probably want to get something better featured, and if you know nothing, it wouldn’t be at all clear how to set that one up, so you’d get a Chinese mini lathe from MachineMart instead In many regards it’s better than mine – it has the nose thread protector, counter pully assembly, a different top slide making it possible to fit a quick change toolpost, the brass oiler fittings and correct slide nut, a motor reversing switch, 4-jaw chuck. The 330 GBP it went for is a little disappointing as it puts a similar low value on mine (much less than a Unimat), but I’ve been thinking about that. Maybe this type of lathe is genuinely rare – it certainly is compared to all the Boxford A/B/C underdrive units. Not that I’ve been looking that long, but you’d think the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon (aka Frequency Bias, or the frequency illusion) would make it feel otherwise. I’d made the spacer in nylon originally it was much easier on the Unimat (the steel T-nuts were very hard work), and I’d left it because it was working ok… I have a short bit of thick-walled steel pipe I can cut down/machine to do it, if not 100% properly, then at least a better class of bodgeĪ while back I saw another Boxford collet lathe - on eBay, it’s only the third lathe of this type I’ve ever seen. I did a couple of brass bits on my Boxford lathe earlier in the week, and found the involuntary slight taper turning problem was back. This time it was caused by the nylon spacer under the nut holding the compound slide on compressing over time, and allowing the whole slide to rotate around 0.75 degrees when there was any torque from the tool, meaning about a 1 in 75 taper.
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