Viceroy tailstock taper size

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Viceroy tailstock taper size

Post by bradders » Thu 12 Aug , 2010 15:45 pm

Customer writes .................

I need to identify my Denford machine and the size of the morse taper in the tailstock
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Re: Viceroy tailstock taper size

Post by bikerwookie » Fri 13 Aug , 2010 8:32 am

It looks like a viceroy 280 vs with an mt3 tailstock.

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Re: Viceroy tailstock taper size

Post by bradders » Fri 13 Aug , 2010 8:48 am

Cheers BikerWookie,

Customer --- MT3 = Morse Taper No 3

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Re: Viceroy tailstock taper size

Post by Andy B » Fri 13 Aug , 2010 9:53 am

A fairly early model 280VS too - it has the nice chromed ball-handles on the top- and cross-slides and dual-scale dials.
Had a bit of a hard life by the looks of it - missing various levers for the power feed & screwcutting.

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Re: Viceroy tailstock taper size

Post by bradders » Fri 13 Aug , 2010 9:59 am

Andy,

I'm glad you can offer such detailed information on the lathe

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