The Home Machinist!

I want to turn a tapered part, but do not have a taper attachment for my lathe. What would be the best method for this? I assume the lathe would be the way to go, but I also have a mill. Here are a couple pictures of the basic idea of the part I plan to make. The part is a baffle for a .22lr silence...

I plan to keep it since I paid around $150 for it. I know if I sold it I'd need it the next day Is this motor too slow for s buffer ?

That's a great idea......but I have one of those. I have an old washing machine motor my uncle rigged up years ago. It is real handy.
Thanks

http://i204.photobucket.com/albums/bb28/mike-sid/IMAG0167.jpg http://i204.photobucket.com/albums/bb28/mike-sid/IMAG0168.jpg I have this extra motor. What can I use this for? I was thinking of a buffer. Anyone have a good idea for a useful project ? The motor was bought new by me for a lathe that ne...

Now this is one cool project. Please keep posting pictures! I'd love to see that organ play in it's full glory!

Nice work as usual. I think I need one also. What do these go for?

Pixman,I am eastern Connecticut About an hour from you, I would be very interested in visiting your shop and compare notes, If nothing else a good BS shop talk would be in order. Thanks for the invite. Thanks Ken is a great guy! He offered to help me...and he was and still a great help to me! Ken i...

I got the windmill pop-up and an adult site, pop-up

Look for threads here posted by "fullautomike". He also got his hands on two M300's, and made one good one out of the two. I had helped him out with making a new cross slide screw & nut set. I've been away from the site for a bit, work, hunting, and other stuff, but I'm back here and ...

Bob,
Thanks for posting the videos. It looks like a good idea to me. I might even try them.

P.S. those rests look great!

Mike

BTW, that link you posted is quite confusing. While the illustration looks to be a right hand tool, the nomenclature and shim used clearly indicate a left hand version. Check your holder, I'll bet its an "LSASR 83", not an "LSASL 83". Man, you can't get anything about carbide in...

Glenn Wegman wrote:
Feeding the last few thousandths using the cross slide does do a nice job of cleaning up the flanks though, but usually no more than a thousandth or so in feed per pass.

Glen,
That sounds like a good way to do it, I'll try that when I get time to play again.
Thanks Mike