Taper Attachment Plans


The January 1962 issue of Popular Mechanics contained a 5 page article by Walter E. Burton giving plans for fabricating a taper attachment for a lathe. It is believed that these plans are now in the public domain due to copyright expiration. In any event, the scanned images (in .jpg format) from that issue are provided here for educational and private use purposes.

There is a zipfile which contains all 5 .jpg pages - about 1.8MB. Alternately, you may prefer a PDF file containing all of the pages (best resolution) - about 0.9MB. The links below refer to the images of the individual pages (about 400KB each).

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To save the images to your disk, right click on the link and choose 'Save Target As' from the popup menu.