A number of firms manufacture solid, ER16 dimensioned, "collets" that are heat shrunk onto cutters. I'm curious if they can be removed by quickly heating the solid collet with an induction heater.
> -----Original Message----- > From: TJoseph Powderly [mailto:tjt...@gmail.com] > Sent: Friday, April 19, 2019 6:28 AM > To: emc-users > Subject: [Emc-users] Fwd: Re: ER ATC tool idea > > > > > -------- Forwarded Message -------- > Subject: Re: [Emc-users] ER ATC tool idea > Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2019 17:15:50 +0700 > From: TJoseph Powderly <tjt...@gmail.com> > To: Andy Pugh <bodge...@gmail.com> > > > > Gene, > > On 04/19/2019 06:52 AM, Andy Pugh wrote: > >> On 19 Apr 2019, at 00:47, Ken Strauss <ken.stra...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> there is no obvious way that the threads would achieve that level of > >> concentricity. > > You can still register on the taper. Solid "collets" and off-the-shelf > > nuts seem so obvious that I am puzzled that I have never found them. > > It solves the tool length puzzle at a stroke. > here's your chance to make use of that induction heater thread from a > while back. > you could make solid collets for heat shrink tooling :-) > heck, they could be solid collet-nuts > no concentricity problems ( except in manufacture , got a jig grinder ? ) > > _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing > list > > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > tomp > > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
