Re: Endmill holder nomenclature

I have never seen anything other than a "standard" 40 milling
machine taper. NMTB as you probably know stands for National
Machine Tool Builders as far as I know. The 30, 40 and 50 tapers
have been around "forever."

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com, "dougfennell2000"
<dfennell@m...> wrote:

> Whent looking for some endmill holders on Ebay today and found
> some "NMTB 40 taper" holders (I know my 4J head uses these) and I
> also found some listed as "40 taper" that appeared identical. Are
> these holders the same? Just another way of saying the same thing?
>
> Doug