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What live center for woodturning? Morse 3 taper.

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After 7 or 8 years delay my Solberga wood lathe finally is having new eletricals installed and will be put to use. The borrowed lathe which I have been using meanwhere has moved home to it's owner.

However my lathe did not come with a live center. If there has ever been one it probably got lost long ago. It came with a badly damaged fixed center whose morse taper is too beaten up to ever fit the number 3 morse socket in the quill.
There may have been some technical development since my lathe was manyfactued some 70 years ago so I suppose people use live centers with ball bearings theese days?

Is there any difference between live centers for wood lather or metal lathes?
What live center would you revommend?

Or should I just make a fixed center from a worn out drill with morse 3 taper?
 
If all you want is a pointed live centre, the MT3 centres for metal working lathes are often cheaper and stronger than the woodturning centres.
 
slimshady said:
Hi.
Without knowing why not , would an mt sleeve adaptor not work.

Alex.
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Yes, I have done that on my lathe. Best to get an adaptor without a tang, or cut the tang off to reduce the length. Or use an open-ended adaptor - no added length but may be a pig to remove in the future. DAMHIKT!

Duncan
 
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