Temporary Tailstock Fix for Worn Morse Taper

[Paul Jones]

The internal Morse taper bore to my tailstock needs to be repaired due to uneven wearing. The drill chuck with a Morse taper adapter has a tendency to slip while doing heavy drilling. I plan to use a Morse taper No. 3 fine cut reamer to clean-up the high and low spots to fix this problem. In the mean time I have been using a single layer of 20 lbs computer printer paper rolled around the drill chuck's Morse taper adapter. The paper layer grabs just enough to prevent any turning and allows the chuck to stayed aligned in the tail stock. I included a couple of photos of the improvement.