Reaming Myford Headstock Taper

[chris robinson 1Participant @chrisrobinson1]

[chris robinson 1Participant @chrisrobinson1]

Has anybody had to ream or bore out the MT2 taper in their lathe headstock?

I have a Myford ML10 that is in pretty good condition apart from the fact that at some time in it’s history someone has managed to badly score the internal taper.

I have acquired an MT2 taper reamer but hesitate to try using it – (1) because the scoring seems quite pronounced and the reamer might not be able to cope with it, and (2) because I don’t know if might be better to try boring it out (I successfully bored an MT2 taper in a lathe milling spindle some years back, so could set up to do that).

Any suggestions gratefully considered.

Chris

[Sub MandrelParticipant @submandrel]

I have used an MT2 taper reamer to carefully clean up a tailstock socket, holding it in the chuck and allowing they socket to ‘float’.

 

Think about the enormous length of cutting edge , and you can be resaonably sure it will only remove burrs or bruises and not change the taper as long as you don’t try to force it into the metal.

 

Neil

 

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