On 25 January 2013 18:51, Roland Jollivet <[email protected]> wrote:
> Back in 2011 you had the mechanics of your BT30 toolholder up, including > the machining of a split collet. > Is there a reason you went for that option, as opposed to the far simpler > three balls in a tube style? As I recall, I simply didn't have the space for the three-balls. My drawbar fits in the original drawbar bore. When you add up the diameter of the outer tube, the ball diameter and the pull-stud it ends up being larger overall than the collet design. > Also, did you ever consider a bayonet style pull stud? It might not be > suitable for CNC, but would be easy to make and use for manual changes. My plan was always for an automatic toolchanger. -- atp If you can't fix it, you don't own it. http://www.ifixit.com/Manifesto ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS, MVC, Windows 8 Apps, JavaScript and much more. Keep your skills current with LearnDevNow - 3,200 step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft MVPs and experts. ON SALE this month only -- learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnnow-d2d _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
