• Scam Alert. Members are reminded to NOT send money to buy anything. Don't buy things remote and have it shipped - go get it yourself, pay in person, and take your equipment with you. Scammers have burned people on this forum. Urgency, secrecy, excuses, selling for friend, newish members, FUD, are RED FLAGS. A video conference call is not adequate assurance. Face to face interactions are required. Please report suspicions to the forum admins. Stay Safe - anyone can get scammed.
  • Several Regions have held meetups already, but others are being planned or are evaluating the interest. The Ontario GTA West area meetup is planned for Saturday April 26th at Greasemonkeys shop in Aylmer Ontario. If you are interested and haven’t signed up yet, click here! Arbutus has also explored interest in a Fraser Valley meetup but it seems members either missed his thread or had other plans. Let him know if you are interested in a meetup later in the year by posting here! Slowpoke is trying to pull together an Ottawa area meetup later this summer. No date has been selected yet, so let him know if you are interested here! We are not aware of any other meetups being planned this year. If you are interested in doing something in your area, let everyone know and make it happen! Meetups are a great way to make new machining friends and get hands on help in your area. Don’t be shy, sign up and come, or plan your own meetup!

Search results

  1. E

    R8 collets

    Looks like I have a 7/16th with 20 UNF thread. does that sound right ?
  2. E

    R8 collets

    Thanks for the link looks like the solution and really not too bad a price for my BusyBee CX612 Craftex Mini Mill. Lets see what the shipping might be on that though !
  3. E

    R8 collets

    Yes and shipping in general is bad from the USA getting that way everywhere it seems.
  4. E

    R8 collets

    For drilling I have a half horse power drill press if I need long drill usage in larger pieces. My longer term plan is possibly custom triple trees on my competiton Trials Motorcycle, some time in the future though.
  5. E

    R8 collets

    I did get this setup at the start but it cut down on work height. R8 BRIDGEPORT SHANK ER32 COLLET CHUCK 18PC ER32 COLLET SET
  6. E

    R8 collets

    This one
  7. E

    R8 collets

    It appears to me that extending the column might be a better route as I have an R8 collet chuck with collets and I can get metric for that if needed. Seems a better dollar value this way, unless I am wrong and there is flaw in that. This is the one I have
  8. E

    R8 collets

    Being new to the group I wish to play along with how things work but we might as well stay here. So with my mill being an adfjustable column, I wonder how extending the column might be done. Perhaps at the top?
  9. E

    R8 collets

    Where can I find the thread size, there is nothing in the scant booklet I got with the machine. I should say the intent is to give me more work height, at the moment I hace an R8 morse collet but I see it like the drill chuck reduces the size of what can be done. I figure the use of R8 collets...
  10. E

    R8 collets

    Perhaps a new thread on this subject might be the right thing to do ?
Back
Top