Taper turning attachment

[Stanko]

Here's my lathe, its a Smart & Brown Model A


When I bought it it had only half of the taper turning attachment so a new top plate and slide were necessary
Heres how it turned out





It lives round at my friends workshop as I havnt got 3 phase yet, sure made it easier with all his tools and experience to help with the tricky stuff (like the dovetail)

[Alistair Hosie]

I see you bought a good one .I have the Smart and Brown 10 24 v s l variable speed model it's a great lathe.Well done and enjoy enjoy enjoy.Alistair Merry Christmas

[hoffman]

Man, Those Smart & Brown's appear unstoppable. Makes a SB look like a tinkertoy...

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Hoffman in Warner Robins Ga

[Smokedaddy]

Seasons Greetings,

So when and if you have the time, how about posting some more images on HOW it works. Maybe a bogus setup or something for us novices.

Sweet work,
-SD:

[aboard_epsilon]

SD this should explain things:-



all the best.mark

[Allan Waterfall]

Nice work Stanko.

Allan

[Spin Doctor]

Looks like a Hardinge Taper Attachment on steriods. One nice solid looking lathe. I have a feeling not too many made it to this side of the pond, or south of the US-Canadian border

[coldformer]

nice work
what kind of steel did you use ?
jerry

[Stanko]

Good question. I was more concerned with the size than the exact type I think its just mild steel (CRS) the bit I purchased was 150mm x 40mm which was a bit wastefull and took a lot of machining to get down to size.
The dovetail cutter was about the same price as the steel. When we did the topslide we made a couple of extras to make a profile copying attachment based on the ideas at this site
http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~chrish/profile.htm
So there is a little more to do on this yet
Mike

[Allan Waterfall]

I also made my taper turning attachment from details on Chris Heapys site, also found that the dovetail cutter cost more than the steel.

It's also a good site for selling/buying and getting info.

Allan