Taig Micro-lathe & Micro-mill Accessories
Chucks
Left to right & top to bottom: (a) face
plate, (b) standard Taig 3-jaw with reversible,
machinable, aluminum jaws,
(c) 3-jaw
scroll with hardened steel, reversible, jaws, (d) 4-jaw
Taig scroll with reversible aluminum jaws,
(e) 4-jaw with independent, hardened steel, reversible jaws.
The aluminum
jaws can be turned to suit your needs.
The depth stop can be used with all of these chucks.
Steel-Jawed Scroll
Chuck
This is an all steel, 3-jaw chuck but it does not use a threaded spindle with a shoulder like the Taig.
In order to have it seat evenly, I made a threaded spacer from a Taig blank steel arbor.
The spacer screws on & covers the spindle's shoulder. I surface ground it to make it extra flat & parallel.
It also has two milled flats for a 1" open-end wrench.
Note the threaded, wrench-tightened spacer between the spindle face & the
chuck.
Collets
Seven different OEM collet
sizes, their closer nuts &
several blank collets that have been
threaded to help turn down screws.
Collet sizes: 1/8", 5/32", 3/16", 7/32", 1/4", 9/32",
5/16". These are soft steel that can loose their shape & thus
precision.
The brass peg is a toolbit
height gage.
Centers,
Arbors & Depth Stop
Top to bottom: dead center, live center,
original design drill chuck drawbar adapter &
depth stop for chucks. The live center has
a tension adjustment hex screw
inside its end.
Dead center is threaded to allow mounting of accessories
like a drill chuck or
a die holder.
Steel 10-32 T-nuts for the Taig lathe & mill from
A2Z CNC.
The top threads for all of the lathe nuts needed to be re-tapped to remove burrs
from manufacturing.
The bottom thread is incomplete to stop a screw. Do not tap all the way through
as this is a useful feature.
Use a bottom-style tap.
Tool Posts
Original standard tool post. Low cost, so buy
a lot of them.
A standard tool post, a modified
rocker-style
tool post, a black back tool post
& a cut-off tool post.
The black & cut-off tool posts are
mounted at the back of the cross slide.
The
tool bits are used upside down
(a rigid setup)
thus two
tool bits
(both front & back) may be used
jointly.
All tool posts have been modified using a custom-made, top steel bushing & ratchet handle.
The stepped bushing rests inside the counter bore. Lengths of 10-32 threaded rod
were used for mounting bolts.
The rods are threaded into the nuts with Loctite. Cap-head screws replaced the
Taig OEM set
screws.
Taig Cut-off Tool Post
Cut-off tool blade is used upside-down at the
back side. The tool works well & blade is easily re-sharpened.
Uses a standard 1/16" x ½" x
4" cut-off blade. Designed to cut from the back with the blade upside-down.
Superior to the ¼" x ¼"
shank cut-off tool bit.
All-steel construction.
Top: Newer design
for the
Taig mill
ER-16 spindle, ⅜-24 drill chuck arbor with
⅜" shaft .
Bottom: Upgraded Taig lathe chuck arbor.
Taig lathe with
drill chuck arbor that threads onto the spindle nose.
The original design used a drawbar.
See additional chuck arbors here.
Compound Slide
Allows short
taper cuts. OEM brass spinner knob
replaced with a pivoting-style knob.
The compound to cross-slide attachment bracket uses a
conically-shaped ring (underside).
It is soft steel that can distort under heavy clamping so I
surface hardened it using Kasenit compound from
Enco.
Die Holder
Support rod screws onto dead center & holds
1" or 13/16" OD dies.
Allows concentric/perpendicular hand threading on lathe-held rods.
Use bar to tighten/loosen onto the dead center & rotate
housing during threading.
An MT-2 arbor can also be used to adapt this holder to the 9x20 lathe tailstock.
Jacobs Chucks
½" medium duty &
¼" industrial drill chucks. 3/8-24 thread attaches to spindle using a
drawbar adapter.
Chucks attach to tailstock using the dead center. More chucks.
Milling Attachment
Allows slotting/milling of very small parts on
lathe; limited range/use/accuracy.
Supplied with low-end milling vise attached.
Riser Blocks
Spacers used to increase lathe turning
capacity to a 6" swing.
Left to right: spindle, tool post & tailstock riser blocks.
Spindle riser block can be used on the mill, too.
Their use reduces rigidity.
Soft Jaws
Replacement jaws for 3-jawed,
scroll chuck. These jaws fit the
4-jawed
scroll chuck, too.
Circle jaws (right) provide increased support
for thin disks.
Machine to suit setup needs.
Steady Rest
Supports long thin rods in the middle to
reduce deflection or
use to hold parts too long to be held by tailstock. 3/32" to 1½" capacity.
The three finger ends can be modified to hold bearings.
Tailstock Handle Extension
Obligatory tailstock handle extension.
Aluminum rod with a flat milled & two, ¼-20 screws.
Held on with 2, 10-32 SS cap-head screws. Replaced the cotter pin with a piece of turned
stainless steel ¼ -20 threaded rod. Left the (flattened) threads to function
as a gripping surface. ¼" Jacobs industrial quality
drill
chuck shown mounted.
Sherline tailstock,
shown with a
dead center, was adapted
for use on the Taig lathe.
The bracket holes are short slots to allow adjustability
for tramming.
Modified a Taig riser block to function as the base.
Two set
screws with locking nylon inserts are centered under the tailstock body for fine
vertical adjustments.
Access for the 8-32 set screw's 5/64" hex wrench is on the bottom side
of the bracket.
Two additional set screws with locking nylon inserts are positioned on bracket
for fine horizontal adjustments.
Once set, the screws allow easy, repeatable (aligned) reassembly for
other applications
that use the OEM base.
Sherline MT-0 dead center,
adjustable live center, & adjustable ⅜-24 drill chuck adapter.
Sherline does not
precision grind their accessories' MT0 tapers making the fit to the reamed
tailstock, marginal.
Drill chuck adapter.
8-32 hex-head bolts with washers past through oversized holes to allow alignment to the
spindle.
Live center.
Ball Turner
Also see the larger, 9x20 ball turner.
Taig
Arbors
An arbor
with a 2" x 1/16" slitting saw blade (½" mounting hole), tapped &
plain.
¾ -16 threads for direct attachment to spindle. Soft steel construction.
Low cost, so buy
a lot of them.
Wood Turning Accessories
Two different sized spurs & cups (dead centers).
A faceplate with
three holes for wood screws.
Dove-tail bases clamp the lathe bed.
Adjustable tool rests.
