Hi guys; I find, at least for the remainder of this project, that I need some sort of a depth stop to reliable reposition the 4mm tap I'm useing, currently in a 3/16" R8 collet. A collar on the tap would work but I've not been able to locate a suitable one. I've got the tap in a glob of g02 with the r8 tightened on it, but the 3/16 R8 will likely spring it loose as theres quite a bit of collapse by the time Its got a good enough grip on the tap.
Anybody else have a better idea for a depth stop? And looking around for another 3.3mm tap drill, which is 0.129921259842519685", its apparent that the next drill down is a 1/8", and the tap will tolerate that .004 undersize ok in brass. But I found some 3.3mm's over in Andy's stomping grounds on ebay, in 10 packs, and here about 2 weeks faster than the Chinese versions, but fleabay has been playing with their card processing (again), giveing no opportunity to adjust the number of 10 packs, so I only have 1 pack of 10 coming. I sent ebay a mild nastygram because I really wanted 2 packs to save a few cents on postage. That teeny little 8mm square butt on the drawbolt is a PITA, too small to easily spin with fingers after its been loosened with that watch makers sized wrench, but I just found a 5/16" 8 point socket on a 1/4" adapter in an 18 volt sorta hammer drill works, and if I can get the tap depth fixed, then I can series all three operations into one file with tool changes between them. With the drill to run the drawbolt, that ought to triple the production speed for these things. If anyone ever designs a tool changer for a G0704 that doesn't impinge on its working envelop, plz advise. What I've done so far looks good. I'd go on and actually mount this tap in the first one, but I'd likely loose the current home+touch-off offsets of the current setup. Or maybe I could setup the next 2 or 3 coordinate maps? Thats a thought... mumble mumble... -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
