Taper Machine...

[pescadoman]

Randy, thanks for the info. Where do you buy an adjustable template (for lack of a better word)? Shame their website doesn't have more info and pictures. Probably a moot point though, at least for me right now as $3,000 is a bit much for me to spend on a single purpose machine. Any idea if you can disengage the carriage from the lead screw and slide the whole carriage down or do you have to feed it back? Oh, do you own one? Have time to do a little write on how it works and maybe a little Pro/Con?

Thanks Joey, I forgot to mention that one. I wonder how you keep the chips out of that track..... is it a through slot or a groove? That is one thing I've noticed with pretty much all the cue making machines, no thought towards dust collection. For the Hightower you can't really mount anything to the carriage as any bump puts a gouge in the shaft. I am using a Floor Sweep attachment for my dust collector sitting on top of the wooden toolbox. It gets about 95% of the chips and all the dust as long as I don't have a leak in the cover I made for the router. If that leaks then the dust drifts under the bed and loves to attach to the lead screw.

I own one. you can disengage carriage and slide it back. I also disengages automatically, so you can walk away and not have to worry. The guide pin that directs the "saddle" brushes debris out of it's way,so no gouging. I'd get more into detail, but I don't feel very well ATM.

 

[GBCues]

I own one. you can disengage carriage and slide it back. I also disengages automatically, so you can walk away and not have to worry. The guide pin that directs the "saddle" brushes debris out of it's way,so no gouging. I'd get more into detail, but I don't feel very well ATM.

Randy,

I know there are flexible taper bars out there, but I've always wondered how repeatable a given taper curve is once you've loosened all the screws and set up another. It just doesn't seem like you could get back to the exact curve that you had previously. I don't own one and am slowly working on an add-on to my lathe which I refer to as a CNC taper bar. It seemed to me that CNC was the best way to get a repeatable curve.

The other way I've thought about is the rotating taper bars like on the DaCues (spelling?) setup. With that device you can have 4 different tapers set up and you simply unlock the bar, rotate it to the one you wish to re-use, and then lock it back in place.

Sorry to hear you're not feeling so hot, so when you get better, I'd love to hear your comments (or anyone else's comments) for that matter.

Gary

 

[Cue Crazy]

Randy,

I know there are flexible taper bars out there, but I've always wondered how repeatable a given taper curve is once you've loosened all the screws and set up another. It just doesn't seem like you could get back to the exact curve that you had previously. I don't own one and am slowly working on an add-on to my lathe which I refer to as a CNC taper bar. It seemed to me that CNC was the best way to get a repeatable curve.

The other way I've thought about is the rotating taper bars like on the DaCues (spelling?) setup. With that device you can have 4 different tapers set up and you simply unlock the bar, rotate it to the one you wish to re-use, and then lock it back in place.

Sorry to hear you're not feeling so hot, so when you get better, I'd love to hear your comments (or anyone else's comments) for that matter.

Gary

Yeah that thing is pretty cool,

I like the idea of interchangeable bars, that You can simply swap out, whether It's the type you can readjust or the type that some people have cnc cut.

I do like the option of being able to tweak a taper manually though, but I wouldn't like what You mentioned, in having to try to get back to square one after fooling with It. I'd rather have several of them that could be swapped easily, save the tapers I want and use the extra bars to experiment with. I have for years wanted to build a stand alone taper machine, and that was something I was thinking about trying to do. I have some of the parts for it, but still have not acquired everything that I need.

Greg

 

[scdiveteam]

You can do a box like this. I have on the right side the dust collector hooked up and a plexiglass door in front of the box. Works great for me. No dust whatsoever and noise is super low as well. I remember Kenny Koo posting something similar awhile back as well.
I have the adjustable taper bar from
Unique, $259.00 and works great.

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Hi Tony,

Great Minds think alike!! :yes:

I have three 4" air intake valves on top and side and two 4" discharges on the bottom so the box don't collapse in on itself from "delta p". I open one valve and blow 100 psi air in to make a cyclone and the dust is gone, poof!!!.

How is your CNC project going? Talk to you soon.

Rick G

 

[Guerra Cues]

Hi Tony,

Great Minds think alike!! :yes:

I have three 4" air intake valves on top and side and two 4" discharges on the bottom so the box don't collapse in on itself from "delta p". I open one valve and blow 100 psi air in to make a cyclone and the dust is gone, poof!!!.

How is your CNC project going? Talk to you soon.

Rick G

Thanks Rick. I am not a handyman so I did the best I could. Your setup its a lot nicer.
On another note, I wish I could use Tom's aka "deco cues" taper bar setup on my taper shaper. That would be the nutz
The taper shaper is a work horse.


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[pescadoman]

Randy,

I know there are flexible taper bars out there, but I've always wondered how repeatable a given taper curve is once you've loosened all the screws and set up another. It just doesn't seem like you could get back to the exact curve that you had previously. I don't own one and am slowly working on an add-on to my lathe which I refer to as a CNC taper bar. It seemed to me that CNC was the best way to get a repeatable curve.

The other way I've thought about is the rotating taper bars like on the DaCues (spelling?) setup. With that device you can have 4 different tapers set up and you simply unlock the bar, rotate it to the one you wish to re-use, and then lock it back in place.

Sorry to hear you're not feeling so hot, so when you get better, I'd love to hear your comments (or anyone else's comments) for that matter.

Gary

I think I'll live. Doc switched me from Percocet to Dilaudid and I didn't eat(I hope that is what happened), so I got sick to my stomach.

I am going to make something that rotates like Deco's setup. I'm somewhat surprised Unique hasn't come up with something like it.

IMO, the BIG knock to the Taper Shaper is that the butt and shaft tapers are on the same bar. It's fine if their taper is exactly what you want, but I've never met anyone who keeps it like that. I've got the machines here to make something that will rotate(like the Deco setup) and plan on doing just that.

I'd also like an adjustment that is a bit more finite. I always seem to have a hard time taking off EXACTLY .005 ect when I need it(and i have a dial indicator as well mounted)

Here is a link to Unique's Taper bar

http://www.uniqueinc.com/inc/sdetail/2792

 

[snipershot]

Hi Tony,

Great Minds think alike!! :yes:

I have three 4" air intake valves on top and side and two 4" discharges on the bottom so the box don't collapse in on itself from "delta p". I open one valve and blow 100 psi air in to make a cyclone and the dust is gone, poof!!!.

How is your CNC project going? Talk to you soon.

Rick G

Now the biggest question I have is how much beer ya got in that fridge? :thumbup:

Joe