RWD3M
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Hi chaps,
I reported recently that I had acquired a small EMCO FB2 clone form a pal's late father and mentioned that it had arrived with little or no tooling:
Last week, I took a further delivery of various stuff from the same source and in amongst it all was this box:
Great news! I now have 3 more collets and some mills!
However!
I thought I'd have a little play with it the other day, under the guidance of another pal who is a very experienced and accomplished 'miller' only to discover that there now seems to be something missing from the inside of the chuck. When I put a collet into the chuck and tightened it up, it neither locked into the top of the chuck (preventing rotation) nor did it even become tight when the chuck is fully done up.
I suspect that whatever is missing has dropped out whilst the milling machine has been sat like this for the last few months:
Absolutely n zero chance of it being lying around anywhere, I sweep up far too often for that. Let that be a lesson to me!
What I'm hoping,is that someone out there has the same posilock set up that I have and can perhaps let me see what it is that I'm missing in the vain hope I can make one rather than have to spend £££ on a replacement chuck.
TIA
Richard.
I reported recently that I had acquired a small EMCO FB2 clone form a pal's late father and mentioned that it had arrived with little or no tooling:
Mill tooling
Hi all, I recently acquired an EMCO (clone) FB2 milling machine but it came with only one bit (endmill?), a tiny thing of probably 1/8" diameter. Can anyone point me in the direction of what I need to be buying? I have a couple of jobs coming up that would be well suited to a mill (cutting a...
www.mig-welding.co.uk
Last week, I took a further delivery of various stuff from the same source and in amongst it all was this box:
Great news! I now have 3 more collets and some mills!
However!
I thought I'd have a little play with it the other day, under the guidance of another pal who is a very experienced and accomplished 'miller' only to discover that there now seems to be something missing from the inside of the chuck. When I put a collet into the chuck and tightened it up, it neither locked into the top of the chuck (preventing rotation) nor did it even become tight when the chuck is fully done up.
I suspect that whatever is missing has dropped out whilst the milling machine has been sat like this for the last few months:
Absolutely n zero chance of it being lying around anywhere, I sweep up far too often for that. Let that be a lesson to me!
What I'm hoping,is that someone out there has the same posilock set up that I have and can perhaps let me see what it is that I'm missing in the vain hope I can make one rather than have to spend £££ on a replacement chuck.
TIA
Richard.