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Not at all. ?Carbide centers are fine. ?But you may find that at some
point you’ll need HSS centers as well.

Such as when you need an extended center for working on a very small
part. ?Or when you need a half center to face off in close. ?Or when
you need to true up a center for very precise work on a small part.
?While you can modify a carbide-tipped center just as you can a HSS
center, it’s time consuming and will require a diamond wheel.

Carbide will stand up to abuse better than HSS, but if you keep your
HSS center well lubed with white lead or a modern high pressure
lubricant it will last a very long time before needing attention.

Just as you’ll probably find yourself using both HSS and carbide
cutters, depending on the situation.....


On Feb 7, 2019, at 10:49 AM, Stan Gorodenski <stanlep@...
<mailto:stanlep@...>> wrote:

On 2/6/2019 10:11 PM, jmartin957 <jmartin957@...
<mailto:jmartin957@...>> via Groups.Io wrote:


The sleeve will allow you to mount your tailstock centers in your
headstock for the purpose of truing them up, which has to be done
occasionally.

If the centers have to be trued now and then, is this an argument
against getting a carbide tipped one?
Stan




Will the sleeve introduce inaccuracy? ?Not really - any decent
sleeve
will be much more accurate than you will ever need.


On Feb 6, 2019, at 4:58 PM, Robert Downs via Groups.Io
<wa5cab@... <mailto:wa5cab@...>
<mailto:wa5cab@...>> wrote:

Short answer is “yes”.? A 3MT dead center will work fine in
the spindle.

Robert Downs

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*Subject:* [atlas-craftsman IO] Dead Center

The manual for my Atlas 10" says a sleeve is provided to go
from a #2
Morse taper to a #3 Morse taper. I know little about
machining and so I
don't know if this means I could buy a #3 Morse dead center
and directly
put it in the headstock spindle and eliminate the sleeve.
Would I be
able to do this, or could there still be some problems in the
taper of
the bought dead center not matching like it should to the
taper in the
headstock?
Stan