You have no idea how much help and inspiration you have been. This week I bought a small engine lathe to start building stuff that I want to play with. It is a rockwell 10”, 25-700 lathe. It came with the cross slide attachment and the gearboxes to cut threads. Needless to say this video helped in a big way of understanding the cross slide. Your tool grinding videos have been a great tool as well. Just wanted to say Thank You.

That has to be the best taper attachment design I have seen yet. I love that magnifier to see the marks on the angle plate.

The Monarch taper attachment is the nicest one I have run into on lathes.

The most useful and interesting channel in KZfaq. You sir are amazing.

Thank you for all the videos, Adam. I think you're the first KZfaq machinist to use his taper attachment, congratulations!

Glad to get to see you run the taper attachment.

Adam video right before a new year. Awesome! These are always so relaxing to watch. Thanks Adam.

Hi Adam, Great explanation on the taper attachment. Wish I had one for my Victor. Thanks for sharing! Take Care, Reid

Thank you so much for this, my Harrison lathe came with a taper attachment and no instructions so this is a great help.

My first time seeing a taper attachment in use on the Monarch lathe, more great content.

Very useful info. Thanks. I purchased an old Sydney on eBay a few years back and it has a very similar attachment and i hadn't takin the time to figure it out. Now i will. My Sydney is a 1941 and still has the original motor. They sure made things right back then. Its a 208 3phase 2hp and weights in at I'm guessing 120 lbs. Crazy huh. Thanks for the vid

I have wondered how the taper attachment worked , Thanks Adam .. Thumbs up man ..

What a great holliday gift! I've been waiting for this because we have the same lathe, and I haven't used the taper attachment yet. So Thank You Adam! Happy New Year!!

OK, this taper attachment looks very robust and simple, but only for single angles. Keith Fenner's contour attachment is more complicated, hydraulic driven, but can make all kinds of angles, dangles and radii in one shot.

This video has been one of the best Ive seen on using lathe taper attachment. Have you every done tapered threading using a taper attachment.

Thanks for sharing, this has really help. I'm currently going to school for Tool making/tool and die. You have helped tons.

Once again you have explained another machine/machining topic in an excellent manner. The fact that you mentioned taking up the backlash before measuring (or starting a cut obviously) should tell everyone that you have cut many a taper on the lathe. The TA on the Monarch is the cats ass. Roller bearings and the gear rack for adjustmenting the bar is so much better than what most older lathes have. This wouldn't apply for your Monarch BUT for folks like me, with lesser quality lathes, it is extremely important to use A LOT of oil on the TA and lathe. I would use a synthetic motor oil on the TA AFTER giving it a thorough cleaning and regular way oil on the lathe. I have an Sheldon from 1954 and it came with the telescopic TA somewhat similar to yours however without rollers etc. Sometimes, depending on the taper, it seems to work best to run the taper from headstock to tailstock. It seems easier to get the backlash out?? Any idea why this may be?

Thanks a million for sharing your life with us! Cheers.

Getting down to that .100 point on the Monarch is going to be interesting. Sounds like jeweler's lathe stuff.

Hi Adam. The recording quality of this episode is about the best I have ever seen. I see from another video that you have a tall lamp it the shop which probably helps?. Congratulations--you're sn expert!

Excellent video Adam! Nice to see those dial indicators in action. Happy new year,and to many more!

Nice procedure for setting up for taper turning. The use of the indicators would work with other types of tapers as well. Great teaching content!!! But then, I've always found good teaching content in your videos. Thanks for the straight forward show and tell. About magnifiers, I use one of those that straps on your head. Believe it or not, the Harbor Freight ones do a really good job and have three levels of magnification built in, and they are cheap! Well worth the investment and probably one of the best deals at HF. Around $5.00 and sometimes on sale. Even if you don't like it, it's cheap.

NOT Abom stuff right there. That got me laughing. Fun video :)

Clearly stated, I understood all of it. Good video !

I had to figure out how a taper attachment worked so that I could make my boss man some hay spears. Really worked great.

Hey Adam, Let me know if you need a smaller center drill. Pretty soon you will have a magnifier on you head. Talk to you soon. Tom

Now that I know how to use my taper attachment on my '41 CK I am going to have to find a project to play around with it. As if I don't have enough projects! Looks like I'm going to have to do some archaeology on it and get it working.

I had to cut a 1:12 taper on a couple of 8" stainless rudder stocks. Fortunately, the lathe had a Z axis readout so I used a good dial indicator run 10 inches along the parallel section of the shaft I had cleaned up and dialed in the taper setting. I checked it the same way when I was done and the taper was within 2 tenths per side over 10 inches. You need to make sure the indicator is positioned at the same height as the the cutting tool to check the taper or it wont give you an accurate reading.

if you have a v-block or other of known length that can be be laid right on way and understood to be repeatably / reliably parallel to way, can be more accurately used for a checking block in any case.

So Adam at around 13:24 the cross slide was traveling but the lead screw handle was stationary. How is this? Thank you for sharing this process, very interesting indeed.

idea for a video. essential tools and accessories for newbies like me. so many tools and stuff out there it's hard to know what I need first.

Thanks for the video. I am wondering what happens to the feed screw and nut on the cross slide? Have a day

Keith Rucker recently talked about the taper attachment in his LeBlond restoration part 13 video. Maybe you can add a link in the description for people that want to see a bit more on that. Also, you mentioned that you needed to put a very small center drill on one side. Why not leave some extra metal and part it off later? Edit: I think I see why, since you wouldn't have a good way to hold it while parting it off.

Cool, cool cool What I've been looking for. Thanks.

Excellent video!

just watched part 2. some play in the taper attachment required you to pull the tail stock to go past to above steps in the park. is the swivel channel worn , the sliding block worn.. i can see some screws in the exposed top .. is the side spring loaded to adjust tension in the groove like a gib to remove play.. just curious.. i know you may only use it rarely but a hour or two now to locate any play might save hours later when you are rushed for a taper. happy new year to you also. wish i was east coast to enjoy some of those pork roasts you showed earlier. i was just laughing to myself thinking about the issues trying to UPS a freshly cooked pork roast. every drug sniffing dog along the way would nose it out for inspection. let alone for the driver at my end. i know it would not be a toss and dash.. it would be a knock and can i have some please.. wayne in lost angles..

Noob question: why didn’t you start by machining the tip first with the work chucked deep into the headstock and use a live center with an inverted tip for the rest of the taper?

Do all the monarch taper attachments work as this one does? My old boss has a monarch 10 EE with that same looking at taper attachment and I have always wondered how to use it thanks for the video keep up the good work I love your channel

Great BIG to small, You do it all well!

Have you thought of making and installing a micrometer adjuster device, on the Taper Attachment?

Nice Video as always.

Impossible to see on the video but what is the maximum angular setting possible on the setting scale?

Abom, You mentioned a "God's rod" on the Monarch taper attachment in one of your videos. I have a 14C and I see it has a place for this rod but none installed. I'm wondering what the purpose of this rod might be. Do you know? As always, I enjoy your machining videos. Thanks.

After watching you cut that 12" shaft...this "big" stuff is fun to watch you play with.

Nice taper attachment. I'm digging that collet chuck though. Makes things a lot easier!

Any good recommendations for machining supply houses??

Adam, what is that thing hanging next to the window behind the Monarch? It looks like a push broach, except that it looks maybe parallel, and the teeth at the bottom look smaller than at the top (which seems backwards for the tooth direction).Great video as always. I am thinking about adding a taper attachment to my lathe too, so these are useful to see.

Can you tell me where you got the magnetic base that fits the lathe way

hello..how are you..i was told that you have a video up of making centering cones for a line boring bar..could you tell me the name of the video please??i want to try and get ones made up..love to see it done.id appreciate your help!!!

What year was your Monarch lathe made? I have one very similar but the crossfeed/half nut controls are different. Great info on the taper attachment!

freaking awesome thanks

Why is it not possible for John to CNC this job? I am glad to see the taper attachment but just wondering.

When you are using the taper attachment, how does the cross slide follow the taper attachment without disengaging the lead screw from the cross slide?

Happy New Year

couldn't you have left the cross slide alone and made the adjustment then checked the indicator that read 459 and see if it moved to 50?

14:00 So what have you set the taper attachment to - 0.9 or 0.45 ?

I’ve got an old southbend 16/24x84 The bed ways are worn pretty bad (.064)Does anyone know who would be capable in doing a regrind on it. We are located in the Tampa area

Hi Adam, I know its been asked a couple of times but i just cant help myself haha how does the taper attachment disengage the cross feed nut? i watched Kieth s vid on his taper attachment but he never said or i couldn't figure it out. Another great instructional vid anyway Adam! Cheers Troy

Adam, looking at a close up of your cross slide , how on earth does it get so beat up, it looks like someone had a bad experience and beat it with a sledgehammer?

Would this taper attachment be something you need to single point pipe thread?

29/32" / foot -- 29/64" / foot?

Is that a wallace chuck used for center drill?

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That small center drill is so not you. Do you have a female center, or one of those with interchangeable tips? Then you could have just turned a 60 degree point on the end for the center.

Interesting!!

Is it just me or does the intro music only play in the left ear?

dont drop that #1 center drill on the floor!! be gone in 2 seconds ha

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Very useful info. Thanks. I purchased an old Sydney on eBay a few years back and it has a very similar attachment and i hadn't takin the time to figure it out. Now i will. My Sydney is a 1941 and still has the original motor. They sure made things right back then. Its a 208 3phase 2hp and weights in at I'm guessing 120 lbs. Crazy huh. Thanks for the vid