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| wheeltapper:
Hi all After finishing my beam engine I wanted something easy to do whilst thinking up a new project. I had to turn a small piece of square bar and not being able to hold it in the 3 jaw and the 4 jaw wouldn'd close down far enough I used my collet chuck from the mill . the trouble with that is it will only take short pieces. I looked around the net and found various places selling mandrel mounted collet chucks, my lathe has a flange on the spindle so chucks bolt on, but the cheapest was about £35 odd. so I thought "I can do that". the hardest part is the closing ring and I already have one of those so the body is screwed into the backplate using the same thread as the cap. my first piece of internal threading. I put a length of ordinary bms rod in it and clocked a total runout of a quarter of a thou. total cost £ 12 and probably as much in weight of swarf :lol: cheers Roy |
| Darren:
Very nice, looks terrific :clap: :clap: :clap: |
| Topos:
Add my kudos. Simple, elegant, effective. :beer: |
| wheeltapper:
Thanks guys. It also feels a lot safer having my hand near when it's whizzing around at 1000 rpm, no sticky out bits. cheers Roy |
| Stilldrillin:
"That`s the way to do it!" :clap: Well done Roy! :thumbup: David D |
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