Making A Universal Tailstock Die Holder Part 2

Part 2 of the Tailstock Die Holder - turning the Morse taper and milling a slot (first job on the mill since the re-build of the head)

[philplanck]

Well it looks like the mill is working great! All your hard work has paid off.

[matts_shed]

Great video Jon. Grateful for being moved in closer on the mill when you started slotting.

[TheKnacklersWorkshop]

Hi Jon,
The tip on tool position for cutting the Morse taper to avoid the live center was a good one...
Take care
Paul, ,

[steved]

The mill is working beautifully, like the idea of showing your watch it meant we could time the cuts ! Coming along nicely.looking forward to pt3 .Cheers.

[eyuptony]

Good viewing Jon, your lathe is performing very nice great finish on the taper. Glad the mill is working up to your standards
after all the hard work you've done rectifying it. This is a tool on my to do list for the future. I've to watch part one yet lol. Tony

[incubatork]

The taper looks good, hss gives a good finish especially on aluminium. Just out of interest you can get screw in ejector ends to help eject from say the tailstock that have the same thread as the drawbar, I got mine from arceurotrade, lets me use/share arbours between mill and lathe, for what they cost hardly worth making them.
As to the video as a whole well done, no questions 😉 its all in there. 👍

[chrisstephens]

What ho Grasshopper, I like your concept of a multi tool holder
It might not have occurred to you but there is no guarantee that the hole in the middle of the die is in fact central. This is no problem normally when a die is used in a standard stock as the die rotates about the work. With a rigid tightly confined tailstock die holder it can cause the thread to be underside. If you open up the holder to allow the die to be opened up that little bit extra you run the risk of it snapping in two, how do I know, never you mind.🤔
Another little suggestionette is to not use your carefully made slot but arrange the holder to spin on the shaft but held by a short lever. The idea being that you can cut a thread up to a length you want and then let go the lever so it can spin freely, great for threading to a shoulder without the risk if calamity.
Do you really not have any V blocks to allow you to clamp round stock in you mill vice?😮
ATB
c

[robertkoper]

Hi Jon, good work and instructive.Are you taking deeper cuts than before the bearing change on the mill?Any significant oil temp rises, you mentioned no silly noises...so far so good!good to see subscriptions going up steadily!

[ZenMinus]

Why did you create yourself so much milling work and hassle of realigning the slot to mill the slot from the other side, when all you needed in THIS part, is a tapped hole for a capscrew and mill a slot (to suit the capscrew head) in the sliding half of the die holder? (am I missing something in the design here?)