I think I like the idea of a solid shrink fit collet. You'd have to redesign the nose of the collet and the nut a little to fit a snap ring or something like that to retain the collet in the nut and make it removeable, but that sounds very do able.
Todd Zuercher P. Graham Dunn Inc. 630 Henry Street Dalton, Ohio 44618 Phone: (330)828-2105ext. 2031 -----Original Message----- From: TJoseph Powderly <tjt...@gmail.com> Sent: Friday, April 19, 2019 6:28 AM To: emc-users <emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net> 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
