Any Shopsmith owners, @Gene Howe etc, can you tell me if a universal live center will fit a Shopsmith lathe tailstock or does only the SS live center fit the tailstock assembly? Thanks!

Sorry, I can't help. IIRC, its tapered. I guess if the degree of taper matches. I'll pose the question over on the SS Forum. 

John, it's a number 2 morse taper,  at least on mine. I can't see any good reason why it would be different from one machine to another.

 

Steve

Edited October 6, 20187 yr by Steve Krumanaker
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55 minutes ago, Steve Krumanaker said:

it's a number 2 morse taper

Thanks Steve, appreciate it much!

1 hour ago, Gene Howe said:

its tapered

I guess that's all that counts right!

Even my old ER takes a No 2 Morse taper. I got mine from a local supplier. No problem.

John

13 minutes ago, HARO50 said:

Even my old ER takes a No 2 Morse taper. I got mine from a local supplier. No problem.

John

Thanks John.

Problem solved. Shopsmith forum answered the same as above. 

2 hours ago, Gene Howe said:

Problem solved. Shopsmith forum answered the same as above. 

Thanks a million for your follow up Gene, appreciate it grandly!

7 hours ago, Steve Krumanaker said:

John, it's a number 2 morse taper,  at least on mine. I can't see any good reason why it would be different from one machine to another.

 

Steve

I'll back up Steve on this.