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General Category => Tool tips & reviews => Topic started by: Flame on December 26, 2020, 10:52:37 AM

Title: Morse taper
Post by: Flame on December 26, 2020, 10:52:37 AM

Just a quick question, are morse tapers universal for wood and metal lathes?

Title: Re: Morse taper
Post by: seventhdevil on December 26, 2020, 11:14:53 AM

there are different sizes like 1,2 and 3 but yes they should be the same size as long as the number is the same.

Title: Re: Morse taper
Post by: Bill21 on December 26, 2020, 11:51:31 AM

Yes, as said they are normally the same. In years gone by there were competing tapers like Brown & Sharpe that no doubt found their way into some machine tools years ago.

More information about machine tapers than you’re ever likely to need:

http://www.tools-n-gizmos.com/specs/Tapers.html