ER collets in South Bend lathe

[Mosey]

Dave,
There is a nice Aciera F5 on Ebay for yah! I think it would really fill out your shop.
Mosey

 

[steamer]

How many billions? 8)

 

[steamer]

13500. Are you serious!

Not in my budget!

 

[Mosey]

I only passed it up because of the lousy paint job! I wonder what they are hiding.

 

[steamer]

:big:

 

[abby]

My most loved and most used machine is my BCA jig borer , it was built in 1940 and is some years older than me , but still produces very accurate work.
It is , however , limited by the difficulty in obtaining collets , I have a small range of imperial sizes including 1/4" which covers most end mills upto that size but metric ? no chance !
I decided an ER20 collet chuck was the way to go and made this

I decided on the ER20M (mini) nut which gives a bit more clearance and bought the collets , nut and spanner from Cutwell tools.com.
I can now hold metric cutters and imperial with upto 1/2" shanks !
A very useful addition and well worth the effort.

 

[Mosey]

very nicely done

 

[lazylathe]

th_wwp

No pictures it never happened Mosey!!!
You should know the drill by now! ;D

Andrew

 

[Mosey]

Yeah, I know. I thought I might sneak one by.
I can't remember how to get something video onto Utube and then over to here. Any help?
This one shows cutting back the cast iron backplate to make a true register for the holder, which bolts on.

 

[lazylathe]

The easiest way is to upload it to youtube and once completed there is a box named "Share"
If you click the box it will expand and give you a link, just right click the link and copy it and then past it into your reply here.

Easy as pie!

Andrew

 

[Mosey]

and here are some more....
these show the total runout after tapping into alignment...about .0004"
The 2 indicator views are the min and max readings when rotating the holder through 360 degrees.

 

[iggy]

I will like to make one for my old S.B. 10K lathe, attached to a backplate with 2 1/4 - 8 thd