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I spent my money! Collet chuck etc

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John Hill:
Postman knocked this mornng! :ddb: :proj: :ddb:

Darren:
A fat lady.... :scratch:

John Hill:
Quite slim actually, nice smile, was riding a red Honda 100 with big panniers (the bike that is). If I was 40 years younger she might have been looking forward to a fun time.

John Hill:
Saturday arrived and I got to play with my collet chuck, collets (of course), end mills and recently acquired vertical slide. 

The first discovery was that my drawbar would be no use so a pleasant diversion was taken to make a 'special' one for the collet chuck.

I put a scrap of steel in the slide and a 16mm cutter in the chuck then tried to figure out the configuration regarding avoiding climb milling.  :scratch:  That took the old noggin a while then I repositioned the slide, the work and hitched my trousers a little just to be sure.

I took a couple of very slight cuts without anything nasty happening but if this trial is a fair indication I will not be retiring the petite shaper any time soon!  To be fair my first attempts with the shaper were probably worse than this! :coffee:

bogstandard:
It will get better John.

But not by much.

John

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