Last Update February 1st, 2005

The Taig Lathe - Nick Carter's Taig Lathe and Mill Pages

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Welcome to my pages devoted to the Taig Lathe! Since buying one over eight years ago I have become enthusiastic about the Taig lathe, its economy, capability and over all style. The Taig lathe is especially good if you are a novice to metalworking, and seek to learn the basics without a large investment of money and space. It is my hope that these pages are a useful resource for all Taig users.
I have an ulterior motive, naturally, in that I am a dealer for the Taig Product Line and I am offering their products at a discount from Taig list prices. I am also proud to offer the Taig Milling Machine, in both it's Manual, CNC Ready and CNC versions which is a great complement to the Taig Lathe.
I will always meet another dealers' price.

Mill backorder times are currently 2-8 weeks.
CNC and CNC ready mills now shipping with new 1/4 HP 3450rpm motor!
I have been hearing of occasional email bounces to felice@casco.net, if your email to me bounces, email me at nick@cartertools.com

Table of Contents

• Taig Lathe Taig Micro Lathe Information and Specifications.
• Taig Mill Taig Milling Machine Information and Specifications.
• Current Price List, (August 1st, 2004)
  • Descriptive catalog
  • Spare Parts Price List
  • Some Package Options
  • "What do I Need" Questionnaire
• Ordering, Contact and Shipping information. (November 4th, 2003)
• Pictures Pictures of the Taig lathe and Taig mill, projects and modifications by Taig users, pictures of my shop. (February 1st, 2005)
• Taig Articles Articles About the Taig lathe, Tips and Accessory Drawings. (December 1st, 2004)
• Jose Rodriguez Articles on the Taig and 7x10 lathes by Jose Rodriguez. (moved to a separate page August 20th, 2003)
• Reviews Aftermarket Product and Book Reviews (January 30th, 2005)
• Users Taig User Web Pages.(January 26th, 2005)
• Taig Links Links to other Taig related sites. (January 26th, 2005)
• Aftermarket Taig, Machine Shop Products and Books which I sell (October 27th, 2003)
• General Links Other related metalworking links:
  
  • Other Manufacturers Lathes, General Lathe Information
  • CNC, CAD, CAM Links (January 26th, 2005)
  • General Machining Information
  • Miscellaneous Mechanical Links
  • Machine Shop, Tool and Material Suppliers
  • Mailing Lists, Web Based Discussion Groups, Usenet Groups
  • Books and Magazines. (January 30th, 2005)
• Links to my non-metalworking pages, email, etc.(February 12th, 2003)
• Search This Site With Google (August 30th, 2004)

Articles About the Taig, Tips, and Accessory Drawings

• Some notes and pictures about setting up the Taig Milling Machine (July 1st, 2003)
• First year with a Taig Lathe I wrote an article after my first year with the Taig detailing all the changes and improvements I made in my first year of ownership.
• Link to Taig Tips I hope that others will submit tips, tricks and lengthy how to articles for posting on these pages (October 24th, 2004)
  (a lot of tips are contained in the pictures section, as well.)
  
• Motor Suppliers Here are some places to get cheap motors for the Taig (February 24th, 2003)
• Plans for holder Drawings for a simple boring bar holder for the Taig
• Motor mount A crude sketch of a useful motor mount I use.
• 3 Pages of CAD Drawings of my Knurling Tool, and pictures all on one page now.(October 2nd, 2003)
• Some notes on my new coolant system Frankenstein himself couldn't have put together a better system! (May 29th, 2003)
• Took your 3 Jaw Chuck apart for cleaning and now you can't get it back together? (October 2nd, 2003)
• Truing work in the 1030 4 jaw independent chuck. (April 13th, 2004)
• Faking a 4th axis on your 3 axis Taig CNC mill (June 8th, 2004)
• About the CNC Stepper Motor Mounts (April 29th, 2004)
• Greg Miller sent this photographic article on adjusting the backlash in the Taig CNC Mill nuts. (December 1st, 2004)

Aftermarket Product Reviews

• FROG I have finished reviewing the FROG x-axis CNC powerfeed/threading unit for the Taig (Updated October 3rd, 2001)
  
• KENBO Here's a review of the KENBO quick change toolpost for the Taig
  
• SPILLAGE Spillage International makes many accessories (shell mill, clamping kit and grid plate, etc.) for the Taig and MaxNC Milling machines. Here are my experiences with their tools
• KNAELL-MINIMECH A review of the innovative Knaell (Minimech) threading accessory for the Taig (February 21st, 2002)
• The Taig Lathe A new book by Tony Jeffree available through me in the U.S. and Canada.
• The Flipper A Quick Toolpost Wrench for the Taig Lathe by the makers of the FROG (Oct. 27th, 2003)
• Jim Shaulis Quick Change Toolpost A well made quick change toolpost for the Taig (Oct. 27th, 2003)
• The Divisionmaster A stand alone CNC rotary indexing attachment, made by Tony Jeffree (Nov. 4th, 2003)
• Robitek makes clamping kits, nuts and wrenches for the Taig milling machine, Here is a review of their clamping kit. (January 26th, 2005)
• Machine Shop Trade Secrets is a great new book full of helpful shop tips. (January 30th, 2005)
  

Taig User Pages

New Sites Start Here

• Jose Rodriguez has a site that keeps growing and growing, truly a master of small shop equipment!
  I also have a number of his articles here: Jose Rodriguez
• Bob Urso has a website of his miniature firearms, most are made with the help of Taig equipment.
• Andy Beals has a page of some woodturnings done on his Taig Lathe
• Alan Pinkus now has a page about his Taig
• Jim Eckman has a webpage about his Taig.
• Trever Talbert has pages on his methods of pipe making with the Taig lathe.
• Tony Jeffree has written some of the best "how-to" articles on making accessories for the Taig, appearing in "Model Engineer's Workshop" and "Projects in Metal" magazines. On his page are articles on a "Comprehensive set of dividing accessories for use with the Peatol/Taig lathe and mill", "An earlier and simpler dividing head for the Peatol/Taig micro lathe", and "A Leadscrew for the Peatol/Taig lathe".
• Stephen Murray has a great page up about making model locomotive parts on the Taig (Link Now Repaired)
• Steven Noll has a great page on his glassblowing lathe made out of Taig parts.
• Jerome Simon has the Taig assisted building of his radio control submarine up on the web.
• Joe White uses his Taig to make really cool paintball guns.
• Wayne Trivin used his Taig to make RC model airplanes.
• R.J. Martin uses a Taig to make folding knives.
• CNC Engraving with a modified Taig
• John Shadle builds clocks, On his latest he used a Taig lathe.
• Leon Heller has some excellent notes on setting up the Taig.
• Alpinetek has a great page about a home-brew Taig mill CNC conversion.
• J.R. Bentley has a great set of pages on his models and his beautiful Taig Lathe with which he made the models.
• Dave Goodfellow no longer has a Taig, but many of the engines on his site were built with the one he used to have.
• Todd Ferrante has a page showing off his mill and lathe, and some well made projects.
• Al Schoepp uses Gecko drivers on his CNC mill
• Rainnea Graphics has a great site on their Taig CNC conversions.
• Don Feinberg just put up a lovely page detailing his construction of a 4x5 folding field camera, using his Taig mill.
• Steve Blackmore's Taig Mill His CNC mill in the UK.
• David Merriman has an article on (someone else, looking for his name) using the Taig for scratchbuilding models.
• Steve Scampini has a nice page on a powerfeed for his Taig lathe. He added an article on drill grinding with the Taig CNC mill.
• Walter Anderson has an excellent page on the Taig lathe, as well as a great article on building Tony Jeffree's dividing head.
• Len Winn created this great page about his Taig lathe and various projects done in his shop.
• Tyler Lane Pipes has pictures of his shop, with Taig.
• DASH Dutro has a page about his Taig CNC mill.
• Ken Jenkins has created a site about his Taig lathe and CNC mill.
• Tom Benedict has created two pages about the Taig mill, one on Gib adjustment on the older version of the mill, and the other on Tramming.
• Mark Thomas has a new site about the Taig lathe and Mill up
• Peter Homann has just started his informative Australian Taig site. He also sells an upgrade board for the Taig CNC Mill
• Bill Dupont has created a great page about his Taig CNC mill.
• Chris Klindt makes his beautiful cues on a Taig CNC mill.
• JAGWAL (Just a Guy with a Lathe) uses a Taig for his pipes.
• Michael Sheppard uses a Taig lathe and Mill for his knifemaking
• Ship Modeler's Forum hosts pictures of Tom Cummings' HMS Victory project. he built using a Taig lathe.
• Keith Buckner has a great set of pages on converting his Taig mill to CNC
  
• Michael Sobik has started a page about his new Taig Lathe
• Alan W. LaBreque uses his Taig for his wonderful ship models.
  
• Dave Burtchell has a new site on his Taig as duplicating lathe (Link Broken)
• Vlad Krupin's Taig Lathe page
• James Steven's Company is Creative Modeling and Prototyping, and they use a Taig mill.
  (January 24th, 2004)
• John Hofstad-Parkhill has good pages on his CNC mill and other topics.
• Sheldon Stokes has a page about his CNC driver box.
  (February 23rd, 2004)
  
• Ron Thompson has a site up about his CNC work (he will be adding Taig stuff soon I hope)
• Chet R. Biggerstaff has a site up on his Taig
• Mitch Singler has a page up now about his lathe and mill
• Hugh Ellsworth has a great picture of his lathe up, I hope he posts more!
  (April 6th, 2004)
  
• Jeremy Hogg uses his Taig CNC mill to make really cool bike and car emblems.
• Wil Heitritter has some good pictures of his Taig mill and projects
  (May 5th, 2004)
• Patrick O'Keefe's Taig Lathe and Mill pages
• McLurkin Custom Knives uses a Taig Mill
  (June 8th, 2004)
• Owen Buerkle has a page about his mods to his Taig Lathe and his 7x10 lathe
  (August 30th)
• Richard Hagenbuch (?) has a site about his shop including the Taig. Lots of projects.
  New Sites
  October 24th, 2004
• Mike Gatzke uses a Taig CNC mill and a cue lathe (with Taig parts) for his cue work
• Richard Hagenbuch's home shop page.
• Fred Wilder's friend, Fast Karl the Robot's pages (Fast Karl was made with the Taig!)
  December 1st, 2004
• "Morningstar" combat robot built with the Taig lathe
• "Team Tier" uses a Taig mill for their robots.
  January 1st, 2005
  
• M.R. Field's Model Car scratchbuilding w/ Taig lathe pictures (I just came across it using Google, I think it's Martin Field? he has 2 pics in the Pictures section.)
  January 26th, 2005
  
• This article by Lori Beckman about a company using the Taig CNC mill is on the "Modern Machine Shop" website. (January 26th, 2005)
  

Other Taig Links

• Taig Tools now has a website up,Your source for official Taig information. Their CNC Division is Microproto.
• Taigtools Yahoogroup There is now a mailing list dedicated to the Taig. Lots of good ideas and a place to find out what other users think about the Taig. If you own a Taig, you must at least monitor this group, the volume of information is staggering, and help is available. Be sure and check out the "files" section as well!
  
• Peatol Need to buy a Taig lathe in the UK? The Taig is sold as the "Peatol" there. For the CNC mills, try Quantum.
• Supertech is the company that produces the Supercam software used on the Taig CNC mills. They have a series of web pages on their CNC conversions of the Taig and other machine tools as well.
• Lee Valley Tools Have a beautiful two page spread of the Taig in their latest catalog. They manufacture wood turning rests and spur centers for the Taig in their own shop. If you are thinking of freehand woodturning on the Taig, give their products a shot - or at least see how theirs are made before you make your own. Their excellent manual seems to be back online now.
• Carter Index Plate Kits. I am now offering an index plate kit for the Taig.
• W.M. Berg sells 3M series belts (which are the series used on the Taig) in a variety of lengths from 180mm to 750mm, as well as bearings, gears and other precision mechanical components. They do have a minimum order of $50, so you can't just buy one belt, but you'll find something else in their catalog to fill out the order.
• OMW Metalcrafts sells a nifty ball turning tool (among other products) which will work on the Taig and other small lathes.
• KENBO is the company run by my good friend Kent Rudisill, who makes a line of quick change toolposts for the Taig, 6" Atlas and other small lathes, as well as doing general machining jobs in his incredibly well outfitted shop. He is always interested in taking on work, no matter how small or large.
• FROG The FROG x axis CNC powerfeed/threading attachment. Check out my review in the Taig Articles section. (Back in business with a new owner)
• Spillage International sells clamping kits and other accessories for the Max NC and Taig mills
• Knaell is now selling a threading kit for the Taig. (Used to be called the "Minimech")
• Cue Man cue turning lathes which are made from Taig parts - if you want cue lathe parts, buy them from him.
• Divisionmaster is Tony Jeffree's excellent CNC indexing system for constructing your own dividing fixture. Look for a review soon.
• The Taig Lathe A new book by Tony Jeffree available through me in the U.S. and Canada.
• Fisher Machine makes a 1/4" shank edge finder suitable for the Taig milling machine.
• Bonnie Klein makes a well known wood lathe based on the Taig Lathe, and has several interesting accessories.
• CNC Zone has a forum for the Taig CNC Mill
• Andrew Werby's Computersculpture.com is an excellent site selling advanced CAD/CAM software and CNC machines.
• Peter Homann Designs sells an upgrade board for the Taig CNC mill controller that has a bunch of advanced features.
• Robitek sells clamping kits, nuts and wrenches for the Taig milling machine.
• EZ-Tram sells the "NanoTram" tool for tramming in the Taig and Sherline milling machines, as well as other useful products.

Aftermarket Taig Accssories and Related Machine Shop Products I Sell

In an attempt to fill some gaps in the small machine supply market, as well as showcase items made in the USA by small manufacturers I have started selling the items below. I have personally tested all items and stand behind them 100%.

• The Taig Lathe A new book by Tony Jeffree available through me in the U.S. and Canada.
• Carter Index Plate Kits. I am now offering an index plate kit for the Taig.
• Replacement Tailstock Lever Arms. I now make 8" long replacement lever arms for the Taig tailstock.
• Endmill Holders for the Taig Mill and Lathe 3/16", 1/4", 3/8", 1/2" shank endmill and 7/8"-20 boring bar arbors that screw on the Taig spindle.
  The 3/8", 1/2"and 1/4" endmill holders are out of stock
• Fisher Machine 1/4" Shank edge finders, other edge finders, micro tapping guide, PEE DEE thread wires, magnetic bases, sine bars and magnetic chuck accessories all made in the U.S.A. (Oct. 27th 2003)
• USA Made V-Block "seconds" Accurate and inexpensive.
• Bar Products Spra-Kool Coolant Mister An inexpensive coolant mister suitable for small machines.
• Used Machine Tools I have for Sale. (none right now)
• My Ebay auctions, sometimes I have good deals on tools, or just weird stuff.
• Machining Books available through Amazon.com

Other related metalworking links

Other Manufacturers Lathes, General Lathe Information

• Sherline makes a line of miniature machine tools, their web pages contain volumes of interesting information.
  
• Levin makes some of the best and most accurate small lathes available today, if you can afford them!
• Clisby Has the smallest metal lathe, designed by the inventor of the Sherline lathe. A US Dealer is here
• Myford, the Cadillac of home shop lathes.
• Tony Griffiths maintains a web site with information about many different types of metal lathes, well worth looking at if one is shopping for a new or used lathe
  
• Varmint Al has wonderful pages on gunsmithing with his 7x10 mini lathe.
• Here is another page showing how to fit the Taig 4 jaw to a 7x10 minilathe
• Little Machine Shop sells small accessories for import Minilathes and Mills, some will fit the Taig products.
• Logan Actuator has information and parts for Logan lathes, as well as a useful tips section.
• David Eiman sells WW lathe collets and watch related items.
• Rene Teo sells a very nice toolpost for the Taig and other small lathes.

CNC, CAD, CAM Links

• Yeager automation has "ACEconverter" a great little DXF to G-code Converter for FREE!
• CNC Concepts has a great site with CNC tips and information
• Marvin Klotz's Utilities are a collection of home shop oriented computer programs.
• CAD CAM EDM DRO Yahoogroup, if you have an interest in CNC machines, subscribe to the list!
• Linux CNC resources
• Dan Mauch's Camtronics is a great source for DIY CAD-CAM
• Industrial press has a free CNC e-book in .pdf format
• GCode2000 is another low cost program
• Stepperworld is a great supplier of machine control hardware, from steppers to boards.
• Xylotex sells machine controllers and has excellent support, Jeff is a frequent contributor to the Taig yahoogroup.
• Millwizard is the software sold optionally by Taig.
• GenGCode is freeware written by Mark Thomas, and provides a great conversational G code environment. Thanks Mark!
• IMService is a great seller of various CAD CAM software, he has demo downloads of some good programs that are low cost.
• EZCam has a web based cam system that you can use, it is kind of hard to find - click on the left hand box with the text about web based ezcam.
• AutoEditNC is a freeware program for writing and editing g-code
• Deskam is another low cost CAM program, They also have DeskEngrave software for Free!
• CNC on a Budget has some cool products for the DIY CNC machine
• Quickstep software - it appears to be free? Let me know if you test it out.
• DanCad software
• This is a good page on the G2 and G3 G-codes "The Dreaded G2 and G3"
  
• TurboCNC is a machine control program that seems to be much better than the stock MPS2000 program, and it's only $20! DAK Engineering has a lot of other fun stuff as well!
• The TurboCNC Yahoogroup
• CNC simulator, while a little funky to get running, is a really good free NC code verification program
• Dolphin is now offering a free CAD program for 2D drawings
• TMO free text milling g-code online.
• The Stepper Motor Archive
• Control of Stepper Motors Tutorial
• BobCAD/CAM is a pretty cool program I have been playing with. The latest HSM has an ad for the software are a really great price.
• Deepak Manuel's CAD/CAM page
• Tauseef's CNC Machining and R/C Helicopter Pages. This is the best set of pages on a beginner starting out with home shop CNC, learning and sharing what he's learned. There are so many great pages on his site I can't believe it. You must visit his pages!
• Meshcam, The site is uninformative but I think it's free? It looks cool.
• Free Programs to Write G-Code by Jon Elson
• Celtic Knot Generator, not real cad/cam but the program will output .dxf files and it's just plain cool!
• WinTopo a free bitmap to vector conversion program, that will output a .dxf file.
• KCam4 An inexpensive machine control program.
• CADdepot.com has a lot of links to various software and downloads.
• Sheetcam is a low cost CAM program. Here is the yahoogroup about it.
• Softsquad has a free G-code editor with a lot of great features called "Codeshark Lite", as well as other good programs.
• Mach 2 control software. Runs in Windows and can be used with the latest Taig controller
• 1st-in-cadcam.com CAD CAM and other CNC Machining Related Resources
• Advameric has some low cost CAM programs.
• CNC Applications, A thorough course in G and M code programming of two axis turning centers and three axis machining centers from Purdue University Calumet. Very cool and free.
• Francois' CAD/CAM World. lots of links and learning.
• Microtech has free online CAM services.

General Machining Information

• The Metal Web News The ideal place to start searching for metalworking ideas and suppliers on the web.
• Metalworking.com Has links, as well as a dropbox full of projects, tips, articles etc.
• U.S. Army Fundimentals of Machine Tools online for free.
• MIT Introduction to Machine Tools and something different here.
• Michigan Tech Manufacturing Education
• Fox Valley Technical College Machine Tool Technician Program. An excellent set of pages!
• Nuts and Bits has a bunch of fun projects, the curtain rods are a great example of using form tools on a small lathe.
• eFunda has scads of engineering resources and links.
• Bioanalytical Chemistry Research at The Evergreen State College has a great page of technical notes, including a java based tap drill calculator.
• The Ornamental Turning Group has some neat designs for home built Ornamental Turning equipment.
• Long Island Indicator Service has an excellent site on repair and use of various indicators.
• Ernie's Massive Metal Links List has links to all sorts of metalworking pages.
• Steve Bachanek has an excellent page that distills interesting posts from a variety of mailing lists
• Precision Twist Drill has everything you need to know about drills on it's tech help page.
• New England Model Engineering Society has excellent articles. Join them if you live in the area.
• Engineer's Edge has some great engineering data
• Carbide Depot has a good technical resource page
• Virtual Machine Shop
  
• The Gears Show is starting up this year in Portland, Oregon, to replace the PRIME show.

Miscellaneous Mechanical Links

• David Macmillan has web pages devoted to "Delightful Machines", and runs the Rolling Ball Sculpture mailing list. An intellectual-mechanical feast for the brain!
• The Horology Website is the source for information and links about horology, clocks, and tools.
• Michael Horgan Has some great information and a good toolbit grinding chart you can print out.
• Matt Keveney has a great page with animations of various steam engines
• Diamond D Parts Locators My next door neighbor, Dennis, is an excellent mechanic, a true motorhead, and sometimes I swear he drags more stuff home than I do. He has a parts locating service for automotive and motorcycle parts, if you need something for your automotive restoration project, drop him a line.
• Machine Search has lots of machine related websites. An odd collection of links...

Machine Shop, Tool and Material Suppliers

• MSC has an enormous free catalog of metalworking supplies (an ideal place to buy toolbits etc. for the Taig) and they don't mind at all selling to the home machinist.
• ENCO is owned by MSC and has more bargain (cheap) oriented items
• Online Metals I am now affiliated with Online Metals. I think it's less expensive to buy metal from local suppliers or scrap yards rather than by mail, however if you need some metal that you can't find locally, try them out. (Disclaimer: I receive a commission for each sale coming from this website).
• Sparro has some neat little tools, and a good website
  
• Surplus Center has motors and other mechanical items.
• Reid Tool Supply is a great place for some hard to find machine shop supplies.
• If you are down in Roseburg, Oregon, HPS, my favorite used tool dealer is located near the airport. Tell them I sent you.
• Discount Tools seem to have good prices.
• ClockDoctor has taps and dies for WW collets, WW Collets and other good small watchmakers lathe accessories
• MacFab has some interesting tools.
• American Carbide seems to have good prices, anyone have any experience with them?
• Bits & Bits has small small tooling for the mill
• Crown Cutters has small tooling as well.
• 2L Has some engraving tools.
• Stock Drive Products finally has an online store, with prices, useful products great for making small machines.

Mailing Lists, Web Based Discussion Groups, Usenet Groups

Every day there are more and more machine shop related forums being created on the web. Here are a few of the longer lasting and busier ones. For specific machines it is always a good idea to check yahoogroups for dedicated forums.

• Taigtools Yahoogroup dedicated to the Taig.
  
• CAD CAM EDM DRO Yahoogroup, if you have an interest in CNC machines, subscribe to the list!
• 7x10 Yahoogroup for 7x10 minilathe users.
• Atlas Craftsman Yahoogroup for users of Atlas and AA lathes, Mills and Shapers.
• 9x20 Lathe Yahoogroup for 9x20 lathe users.
• MaxNc Yahoogroup for users of MaxNc machines and software.
• Sherline Yahoogroup for Sherline users, lot's of good info for Taig sized lathes and mills.
• The Modeleng List is a worldwide mailing list about model engineering.
• Ganoksin.com is the site for the excellent and useful Orchid mailing list, the best place to exchange information on jewelry making on the web
• Chaski.com has great message boards on machining topics
• Jim Maccari has a web discussion group for home shop machinists
• FAQ for rec.crafts.metalworking, the best and most useful Usenet Newsgroup.
• Practical Machinist Machine Shop Forum is another good web based group
• CNC Zone is a forum for different CNC software and platforms.
  
  

Books and Magazines

• Powell's Bookstore has an incredible selection of new and used technical and metalworking books.
• Lindsay's sells reprints and new books on metalworking and engine building, as well as such arcane stuff as Tesla coils and root beer making. A catalog that will convince your friends you've gone insane! Also the root cause of many a home shop machinist's poverty.
• Village Press publishes Home Shop Machinist, Projects in Metal and Live Steam magazines, as well as publishing various anthologies of articles from past issues.
• Wise Owl Worldwide Publications Is the U.S. source for many U.K. magazines on model engineering, as well as carrying many books about machining. They carry "The Amateur's Lathe" by Sparey, which I recommend to the beginning machinist.
• TEE publishing carries many excellent books on Model Engineering
• Guy Lautard publishes his own excellent books, including the "Machinist's Bedside Reader" series.
• Machining Books available through Amazon.com
• Machine Shop Trade Secrets, a great new book of tips for the machinist.

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