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« on: March 08, 2008, 10:11:18 PM »
Hello Everyone,
Now that I seem to have gotten through some of the basics, I though I would try turning a taper.
What I want to do is turn a Morse #2 taper on the end of a piece of round stock.
I pulled up my handy machinists reference and it tells me that the rate of taper for Morse #2 is 0.59941 inches per foot. My handy dandy trig table tells me that the angle for the taper is equal to arc tangent of the rate of taper divided by the length (Arc Tan 0.59941/12) for 2.8596 degrees.
I started up the Mach3 Turn OD Taper Wizard and entered the following parameters:
X End: 0.5
Angle: 2.8596
X Start: 0.8
Z End: 2.3
Z Start: 0.0
Clearance: 0.1
I started the program and it ran without a hitch.
But, my pretty new taper doesn't fit...
I figure that I did something silly, can someone tell me what?
Bob