I've been looking into a self-locking taper connection. My ideal outcome is 'slightly' locking so therefore I've dug up the formulas.
The math that predicts that a taper locks when it has more frictional force than reaction force, i.e. (half-angle of the taper) = arctan(coefficient of...
I have a component I want to have made domestically for a personal project and I have an existing version that was made overseas. That vendor has vanished just a few months after that.
I believe the existing version was made by hard milling of 440C 55HRC. It's a small split cavity mold used...
