My small lathe turned out to be a dud. My son lent me his Delta Midi lathe which is a dream. However, I had a lot of #1 Morse centers, live centers, drill chuck, etc. The Midi is #2 Morse taper. I bought 2- Morse 1 to Morse 2 adapters so I could use the Morse one centers. I got the adapters from Packard. However, none of my accessories would fit. They were all about 1/8" too long. The morse taper in the adapter ends too short. What I did was to grind the ends off the centers so they would fit and not bottom out before seating. A real bummer. You would think the adapters would fit all of the centers on the market.
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Equipment Problem
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LANKFORD said:
beware of the delta midi it is well known for problems especially bearing problems.
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I Had the opposite problem when someone using my lathe put one of the short shanked M2 tapers into a 2 to 3 adapter. It was too short to reach the drift pin slot. We got it out by finding a short piies of steel rod that slipped throught the drift pin slot and let the drift pin push it against the center.
a Morse taper is standard but apparently the length isn't and for wahtever reason some of the really nice lathes accept only short tapers.
-Al
a Morse taper is standard but apparently the length isn't and for wahtever reason some of the really nice lathes accept only short tapers.
-Al
john lucas
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I found that many #2 morse taper accessories won't fit in the Jet mini without cutting the tang off the back end. I have a Carbo tec with #1 taper and Jet mini's and Nova with #2 and have been able to swap things back and forth with the #1 adaptor. I can see how it would be a problem on some lathes.