Cutting Tapers Mfim14
Cutting Tapers Mfim14
Cutting Tapers Mfim14
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
After studying this chapter, students will be able to:
H Describe how a taper is turned on a lathe.
H Calculate tailstock setover for turning a taper.
H Safely set up and operate a lathe for taper turning.
H Describe the various forms of screw threads.
H Cut screw threads on a lathe.
Tapers
CL of lathe
Tailstock
setover
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2. What will be the setover for the following job? Show your work.
TPI = 0.062″ L = 12.25″
3. What will be the setover for the following job? Show your work.
TPI = 0.009″ L = 7.625″
4. What will be the setover for the following job? Show your work.
TPI = 0.055″ L = 10.125″
5. What will be the setover for the following job? Show your work.
TPI = 0.025″ L = 5.250″
L × TPF
Formula: When taper per foot is known, Offset =
24
1. What will be the setover for the following job? Show your work.
TPF = 0.123″ L = 6.330″
2. What will be the setover for the following job? Show your work.
TPF = 0.250″ L = 9.750″
3. What will be the setover for the following job? Show your work.
TPF = 0.375″ L = 10.125″
4. What will be the setover for the following job? Show your work.
TPF = 0.312″ L = 12.75″
5. What will be the setover for the following job? Show your work.
TPF = 0.126″ L = 6.750″
L × (D – d)
Formula: Offset =
2×l
1. What will be the setover for the following job? Show your work.
D = 2.000″ d = 1.500″ l = 6.000″ L = 10.000″
2. What will be the setover for the following job? Show your work.
D = 1.125″ d = 0.750″ l = 3.000″ L = 9.000″
3. What will be the setover for the following job? Show your work.
D = .875″ d = 0.500″ l = 4.000″ L = 12.000″
4. What will be the setover for the following job? Show your work.
D = 1.375″ d = 0.937″ l = 6.000″ L = 15.00″
5. What will be the setover for the following job? Show your work.
D = 2 1/2″ d = 1 15/16″ l = 6 1/8″ L = 12 1/8″
d (P)
(2)
KEY:
SQUARE THREAD
SHARP “V” THREAD N = Number of threads per inch
11 P
Pitch = d= P = Pitch
1 0.866 N 2
Pitch = d= d = Depth of thread
N N P
Flat or space =
2
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Direction
of feed Tip of threading
tool will break off Direction
and threads will of feed
not be accurate
When the tool is fed in at a 29° angle, note that When fed straight in, note that both edges are cutting
only one edge is cutting and that the cutting load is and the weakest part of the tool, the point, is doing
distributed evenly across the edge. the hardest work.
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Micrometer
P
d D M
Micrometer
1. There are five ways of machining tapers on a lathe. List them, with their advantages and disad-
vantages.
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2. When is a section of material considered tapered?________________________________________
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3. Machine adjustments must be calculated for each tapering job. The information given below will
enable you to calculate the necessary tailstock setover for the problems given. Show your work in
the space provided.
L × TPI
Formulas: When taper per inch is known, Offset =
2
L × TPF
When taper per foot is known, Offset =
2
When dimensions of tapered section are known but TPI or TPF is not given,
L × (D – d)
Offset =
2×l
Where: TPI = Taper Per Inch TPF = Taper Per Foot
D = Diameter at large end of taper d = Diameter at small end of taper
l = Length of taper L = Total length of piece
Note: These formulas, except for the TPF formula, can be used when dimensions are in mm.
Problem A: What will the tailstock setover be for the following job?
Taper Per Inch = 0.125″ Total length of piece = 4.000″
Name: ______________________________________________
Problem B: What will the tailstock setover be for the following job?
D = 2.50″ d = 1.75″ l = 6.00″ L = 9.00″
Problem C: What will the tailstock setover be for the following job?
D = 45.0 mm d = 25.0 mm l = 175.0 mm L = 275.0 mm
4. Screw threads are used for many reasons. List five or more important uses.
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• The following questions are of the matching type. Place the letter of the correct explanation in
the space provided.
Name: ______________________________________________
12. A groove is cut at the point where a thread is to terminate. 12. ____________________________
It is cut to the depth of the thread and serves to:
a. provide a place to stop the threading tool after it
makes a cut.
b. permits a nut to be run up to the end of the thread.
c. terminate the thread.
d. All of the above.
e. None of the above.
13. The tip of a cutting tool to cut a Sharp V thread is 13. ____________________________
sharpened using a _____ to check that it is the correct
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shape. This tool is frequently called a _____.
14. The _____ is fitted to many lathe carriages. It meshes 14. ____________________________
with the lead screw and is used to indicate when to
engage the half nuts to permit the thread cutting tool to
follow exactly in the original cut.
15. The compound rest is set at _____ when cutting threads 15. ____________________________
to permit the cutting tool to shear the material better
than if it were fed straight into the work.
16. The three-wire thread measuring formula for inch-based threads is:
M = D + 3G –
1.5155
N
Where: G = Wire diameter D = Major diameter of thread (Convert to decimal size).
M = Measurement over the wires N = Number of threads per inch.
Problems: Calculate the correct measurement over the wires for the following threads. Use the wire
size given in the problem. Show your work in the space provided.