AlanHaisley
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I recently bought a set of #61-#80 bits. Now I realize that I don't have a decent way to hold them either in my floor drill press or in my Sherline lathe or mill. It seems to me that perhaps adapting Dremel collets - building some kind of holder for use in the mill and lathe - might be my only choice. Obviously I could spend several hundred dollars for a precision chuck. Just as obviously given my lack of funds that isn't going to happen.
I am willing to trade ingenuity and time for money on this and would like some ideas about how others have approached this problem.
(I realize that even with a precision chuck, the looseness and run-out in my drill press means it can't be used anyway.)
Alan
I recently bought a set of #61-#80 bits. Now I realize that I don't have a decent way to hold them either in my floor drill press or in my Sherline lathe or mill. It seems to me that perhaps adapting Dremel collets - building some kind of holder for use in the mill and lathe - might be my only choice. Obviously I could spend several hundred dollars for a precision chuck. Just as obviously given my lack of funds that isn't going to happen.
I am willing to trade ingenuity and time for money on this and would like some ideas about how others have approached this problem.
(I realize that even with a precision chuck, the looseness and run-out in my drill press means it can't be used anyway.)
Alan