Follow up - Thanks again for the reality check. I spent an hour carefully hitting any dings with a Norton tapered round stone. Validated my progress with checking the contact of the taper with dye and checking run out. I'm within 0.0004 on my Interapid indicator. The 5C collet holder and the...
Sincere thanks for the quick replies and guidance. I tried a MT5 finishing reamer but it was too " grabby" so I stopped before removing material. My 5C collet holder seats on this MT5 taper and am just trying to tighten the runout to closer match what I measure on the outside face of the...
Problem
I have a Cadillac 14x28 with A5 Short Taper mount. The spindle runout measured on the outside of the spindle face is 2 tenths and I'm thrilled at that given the age of the lathe. The MT5 taper in the spindle has lots of shallow but visible nicks and dings from years of parts roughly...
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