Thread: Mt1.5

Hi Nev
You could try to get in contact with this guy: 1.5 Morse Taper Short Form | Model Engineer He seems to have the same lathe and had the same problem. One of the answers he got was that a 1.5 was a short version of a MT2 (or possibly 1....)
Good luck

Ewan

I think it was that guy I got the manual from a couple of years ago and will need to see if I can get it again, as I think I lost it when I had computer problems once.

It's certainly not a short version of a MT2 and is much bigger than an MT1.

I can't seem to find anything except the same as what you posted.

Nev

Nev maybe it's not a morse taper, have you tried to measure it ?

in that link above he reckons "therefore, that MT1.5 should be very close to 0.5990" per foot."

That's very close to a Jano taper which are .600 per foot

check out wiki Machine taper - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Can I do a copy and paste from machinery's handbook, copy-write ???????

Dunno if I'm right or wrong Nev but it would be worth measuring and comparing to other tapers.

john

Reading further down on that link he changes his measurements ?

He does which is confusing. Will do some more checking and look at your link when I get more time. Am wondering if it's a morse taper myself. Can't believe what you read on the net.

Nev

Apart from the link that shedhappens put up ,here is one with Jarno taper diagram and dimensions, Jarno Tapers
and Morse taper, Morse Taper Shanks
and Brown and Sharpe, Brown & Sharpe Tapers

Cheers.

Best source of machine tooling specs I have found so far is at Machine Tooling Specifications Worth a look for all sorts of tooling info.
Combustor.

I think it's a JT2 taper even though the dimensions don't quite point to it. Called in at Minitech but as my luck would have it, he had everything but a JT2 taper there.Will get to the bottom of this soon.

Nev