2013/6/11 andy pugh <bodge...@gmail.com> > On 11 June 2013 02:10, Jim Wilkin <james.a.wil...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > Take a look at this one . > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzR6L3lEXdM > > It is er 16 and there is a limit to how fast you can turn the spindle. > > But a great idea. > > Seems to be discontinued, but it does look like it screws on to a > standard spindle nose. > http://www.hightechsystemsllc.com/rapid_changer.html > The drawings are available for free: > http://www.hightechsystemsllc.com/pt_rapid_changer.html
Thank You! This seems like a good option. Unfortunately it seems to be limited to 10K RPM (I guess that it is due to balancing). That is to be expected at this price range :) 2013/6/11 andy pugh <bodge...@gmail.com> > > > There are quite a lot of moving parts exposed to dust/coolant/swarf in > that system. It looks like something I would be happy to buy for > personal use, but less happy to install for a customer. > It is a woodworking machine, so there is no coolant, but lots of wood dust. Fortunately that is pretty reasonable customer, who might accept the necessity to do regular cleaning, if the overall price is reasonable. > (I am also wondering if a version of kwik-switch (which has the > advantage of being bottom-actuated) could be made where > contra-rotating geared nuts are pushed between two sections of rack > (at different heights) to operate a much shorter variant of the > ball+hole+ramp mechanism to lock collets directly into the ER20 > cavity.) Is there any chance to see some kind of picture with this suggestion? I feel that my vocabulary is too short to completely understand, what did You mean. -- Viesturs If you can't fix it, you don't own it. http://www.ifixit.com/Manifesto ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
