Taper attachment

David said:
Sounds like you have a well tooled shop there David! Any chance of some pictures of your work. Always like seeing blacksmith work.

David
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I have to figure out how to do that posting, not only new but slow on computers
david1
 
Hawkeye said:
David,

A few pictures of your attachment would help us to offer advice. There are a lot of designs out there for taper attachments. Some are stiffer than others.
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The one I copied was tubalcain I found it on y tube.i will get photo.
thanks david1
 
Richard King said:
David, I need to share a story about Blacksmithing...ha ha. Might save one of the other members a knock on the noggin...lol

A few summers ago when I taught a rebuilding / scraping seminar in Richmond Ca. The host had a friend who has a commercial Blacksmith Shop where we held the class. When I walked into the place, I make the mistake and said "where do you keep the horses you shoe?" I was abruptly told that a Farrier shoes horses and a Blacksmith does Metal design and forges metal structures. So for all of you like me, who watched Gunsmoke and you saw a sign that read Blacksmith and he was shoeing horses. Well times have changed.

The fellow out there was a past president of the Blacksmith Association and his name is Michael Bondi.
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I had a chance today to correct the slack in my slide. I re- milled it to 1000 slack it was 100 percent better. I have one other item to change and that's the slide I made on the cross slide.i put a long slide with a bolt attached to the lath and the tapper block. I am going to put some close drilled holes and do away with the bolt slide. I noticed it was allowing some movement . The one tubalcain made had holes. I guess you should not try to change if it works.

Thanks for your input
David1
 
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