South Bend Taper Attachment

[RandyWilson]

There are several different taper attachments. Big and little lathes, telescoping and fixed. The one on my 14.5 has the dovetail on top. The parts manual I have shows the one for the 9 and 10K with the dovetail on the bottom. I suspect that is a South Bend part.

 

[Surprman]

When I first got my SB9 it was damaged (probably tipped over) and had a broken tongue on the cross slide. I made a new extension to bolt on to the cleaned-up (milled) remainder of the cross slide (like a 10k).
Here is the post of that effort:

Taper Attachment progress

Last weekend I milled up a new section to attach to my cross slide so I could use my refurbished taper attachment. It came out pretty good. I drilled holes in the new part and also drilled and tapped holes for two 1/4-20 bolts in the cross slide. Below are pictures of the assembled unit. I...

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Rick

 

[ShagDog]

After a bit of thought, I have determined that I will never use the taper attachment; so, I have decided to sell it. I need to cough up some money for a new backgear due to a missing tooth on the smaller gear. Anyone have an idea of what this taper attachment is worth, with the missing top slide block mount?