Thread: Taper Per Foot.

Can someone please give me the formula to find taper per foot in an included angle of 8 degrees 27 seconds.

Originally Posted by DaveGoad

Can someone please give me the formula to find taper per foot in an included angle of 8 degrees 27 seconds.

You can think of this as two right triangles with angles of (8 degrees 27 seconds)/2= 4 degrees 13.5 seconds (There are 0 minutes? I want to be sure you didn't accidently say "seconds" when it should have been "8 degrees 27 minutes".)

For "x" feet, as measured along the axis, the width will be 2(x)(tan(4 degrees 13.5 seconds)= 0.1400 x. so the taper is 0.1400.