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Tormach adapters and early Christmas

slow-poke

slow-poke

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I have a friendly neighbour Andrew that has more machinist skills than I will ever acquire. I needed to shorten and refinish one of my ballscrews and he offered to do it on his fully suped-up Standard Modern. Did not take long complete with anti- corrosion coating.

My old mill uses MT3 tooling and I need to decide what tooling I will include with the sale as my new mill uses R8. I was discussing this with Andrew and he showed me a huge selection of Tormach R8-3/4 adapters. These look super convenient, just loosen the drawbar a few turns, slide out the old tool and slide in the new one. Apparently there are alliexpress clones of the Tormach adapters priced low enough that you can have your most common tools sitting in an adapter just waiting to be swapped in in seconds. Would like to hear from anyone using this system.

I'm definitely going to give this a try. To that end Andrew gave me a small box (early Christmas) that included the Tormach R8-3/4 arbor and a few matching adapters, so I'm off to a good start on the R8 front.

BTW my neighbour is about to sell his really well upgraded Precision Mathews 10x28 lathe. Seems everything in his shop starts with a disassembly and thorough scraping, on this lathe he added that green Fluorotec coating to finish the mating surface, added ELS, DRO etc. etc. etc. So if your in Ottawa and want a nice 10x28 this would be great one to look at.
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I have quite a lot of TTS holder for my Tormach. They also work great in the Excello with a 3/4" collet. Much easier than swapping collets for different tools, and for the smaller stuff there's no appreciable loss of rigidity. You actually gain a bit of z clearance which is nice sometimes.

That's a wonderful neighbor you have. We should all be so lucky.
 
Dan Dubeau said:
I have quite a lot of TTS holder for my Tormach. They also work great in the Excello with a 3/4" collet. Much easier than swapping collets for different tools, and for the smaller stuff there's no appreciable loss of rigidity. You actually gain a bit of z clearance which is nice sometimes.

That's a wonderful neighbor you have. We should all be so lucky.
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Super nice guy, I'm trying to figure out how to thank him in a meaningful way.

A couple years back he made me an improved version of the plate that the lathe compound sits on. It stiffens up the less than robust factory plate provided with the CX706 lathes.
 
slow-poke said:
Super nice guy, I'm trying to figure out how to thank him in a meaningful way.
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The very best way to repay a favour is to pass it on.

I'm being quite serious. This approach builds a better society for everyone. I'd bet really big bucks that he isn't looking for a return favour from you. He might even take offense. But, if you feel awkward about it, you can always tell him how impressed you are and how you have taken to helping others the way he helped you. I bet he would like to hear that.
 
Susquatch said:
The very best way to repay a favour is to pass it on.

I'm being quite serious. This approach builds a better society for everyone. I'd bet really big bucks that he isn't looking for a return favour from you. He might even take offense. But, if you feel awkward about it, you can always tell him how impressed you are and how you have taken to helping others the way he helped you. I bet he would like to hear that.
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Interesting comment. The fellow that purchased my old mill will be picking it up any day now and we have agreed that I will spend a day explaining all the CNC inner workings I'm also going to try and pass on as many of the milling basics that I picked up over the last number of years to hopefully get hime a good start. We agreed that I would provide some (limited) tooling. To your point I'm going to include a lot more than I was originally thinking.
 
Agreed, the Tormach TTS holders work well although pullout is possible with heavy milling. TTS holders are available for both imperial and metric endmills, as ER16/ ER20/ ER32 and special versions for boring heads, facemills, slitting saws, etc.
 
slow-poke said:
Interesting comment. The fellow that purchased my old mill will be picking it up any day now and we have agreed that I will spend a day explaining all the CNC inner workings I'm also going to try and pass on as many of the milling basics that I picked up over the last number of years to hopefully get hime a good start. We agreed that I would provide some (limited) tooling. To your point I'm going to include a lot more than I was originally thinking.
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While the extra tooling will no doubt be appreciated, I'd bet that it is your time that he will appreciate most of all. Time is a very precious gift.
 
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