Taig Micro Lathe & Micro Mill Accessories

Taig Micro Lathe & Micro Mill Accessories

Chucks, Steel Jawed, Collets, Centers, Tool Posts, Cut-off Tool Post, ER-16 Spindle Adapter, Compound Slide, Die Holder
Jacobs Chucks, Milling Attachment, Riser Blocks, Soft Jaws, Steady Rest, Tailstocks, Ball Turner, Arbors, Grinding Wheels, Wood Turning

Taig OEM manual Lee Valley Taig Lathe manual

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

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 OEM collet sizes, their closer nuts & several blank collets that have been threaded to help turn down screws.
Collet sizes: ⅛", 5/32", 3/16", 7/32", ź", 9/32", 5/16". These are soft steel that can loose their shape & thus precision.
The ER-16 collets with adapter are the superior approach. The brass peg is a tool bit height setting gage.
The stepped aluminum peg is for initial alignment of the 4" rotary table to the mill spindle.

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 bottom thread is incomplete to stop the screw.

Tool Posts

Taig OEM standard aluminum tool post. Low cost, so buy a lot of them as they are easily modified.

An upgraded 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. A2Z CNC steel T-nuts are now used.
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 & an upgraded 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 replace the set screws.

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 ˝" x 4" cut-off blade. Designed to cut from the back with the blade upside-down.
Superior to the ź" x ź" shank cut-off tool bit. All-steel construction.

A2Z CNC QCTP

Top: Newer design for the Taig mill ER-16 spindle, ⅜-24 drill chuck arbor with ⅜" shaft .
Bottom: OEM 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.

ER-16 Spindle Adapter

Adapts ž-16 spindle to ER-16 collect chuck.
ER-16 collets have a larger continuous range of sizes (1/32" ~ ⅜") & are of professional quality.
Highly recommend quality ETM (Israeli) ER-16 collets over the standard Taig collet set for both the lathe & mill.

ą0.0015" or 0.003" TIR.

A set of 10, superior, high-precision, ground, hardened ETM ER-16 collets (Israel).
An eccentric ring locks the collet inside of the nut.

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 it was surface hardened using Kasenit compound.

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 a bar to tighten/loosen onto the dead center & rotate housing during threading.
A MT-2 arbor can also be used to adapt this holder to the 9x20 lathe tailstock.

Jacobs Chucks

˝" medium duty & ź" industrial drill chucks. ⅜-24 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 1˝" capacity. The three finger ends can be modified to hold bearings.

Tailstocks

Obligatory tailstock handle extension. Aluminum rod with a flat milled & two, ź-20 screws.
Held on with 2, 10-32 SS cap-head screws. Replaced the cotter pin with a piece of turned
stainless steel ź -20 threaded rod. Left the (flattened) threads to function
as a gripping surface. A ź" Jacobs industrial quality drill chuck is 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.

Arbors

An arbor with a 2" x 1/16" slitting saw blade (˝" mounting hole), tapped & plain. ž -16 threads
for direct attachment to spindle. Soft steel construction. Handy & low cost, so buy a lot of them.

Grinding Wheel Set & Arbor

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. Taig Lathe manual.

Adjustable tool rests form turning wood.