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General Mach Discussion / Re: looking at 4th axis

« on: February 03, 2011, 08:11:52 AM »

Yes thanks for that Hood. I have been trying to find out as much as i can about the system to see if it can repace the need for my small starturn lathe.
Not sure at the moment and need to look at the cost of shipping it here as well.
Whats your thoughts on it?

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General Mach Discussion / looking at 4th axis

« on: February 02, 2011, 07:50:45 PM »

I have found a 4th axis online and for use with mach 3 every thing looks good to me but hell most of you on here have forgot more than I will ever have known.
So the main question is is this any good http://www.youtube.com/user/Simpsons36#p/u/4/glYDe94hxb0 this is a ling to Simpson36 on you tube he has some nice stuff up there and this 4th axix will work out around £1000 with all the mods. The chap steve seem very nice and I have no reason at al to misstrust him as is commom on the net and sorry strvr if you are on here as most likly you will be using mach 3lol.

Please give me your honest answer to this as I may look at getting rid of the cnc lathe I have now and move onto this all in one set up for what I do or more what I want to expand into further small model tank barrels and down to small 1/76 scale gun for the model making peeps out there up to 1/16 main barrels for the bigger toys of the rich among us.

Look forward to many thoughts on this from you lot so please say what you think.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: help to find collets size

« on: December 27, 2010, 01:23:00 PM »

The Q24-16 is a type of collet i think from what I have read on the web

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General Mach Discussion / Re: help to find collets size

« on: December 27, 2010, 12:49:54 PM »

Doh on my part looks like it is a Q24-16 (says it on the shaft)

Now all I have to do is find a R8 chuck to suit it lol god I feel stupid never looked at the holder hehe

looks like this is going to be a bust nothing on ebay at all wow thats a first.

Let me know if anyone finds anything in the UK please

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General Mach Discussion / Re: help to find collets size

« on: December 27, 2010, 12:45:36 PM »

Yes thats the one this is what I have they use a generic pic for the website for all the lathes they have.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: help to find collets size

« on: December 27, 2010, 11:01:14 AM »

Ok I have mesured the collets and they do not go with any specs I can find or in the ER system.
The Dia is 24mm with a lenght of 45mm

So it looks like I am no further on that I was lol oh well back to the drawing board

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General Mach Discussion / Re: help to find collets size

« on: December 24, 2010, 05:04:59 PM »

ah righ thank you thats the answer I was looking for. I do have the collet set for the clarke mill and yes I was looking to just have to get a new chuck but was not sure of how to wrk out which ones I had but that answers the question great now all I have to do is mesure them up.

I don't have an engineering background so this is new to me as to how to work oout whats what lol I'm just a newbi wet behinethe ears type of guy 

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General Mach Discussion / help to find collets size

« on: December 23, 2010, 08:27:21 PM »

I have the full milling set for the clarke CL500. I am looking to get a R8 milling chuck ans wouldering if anyone knows what the clarke collets will fit industry wise, 20,20,32 you get what I mean. I dont want to buy more than I need to with the way work is right  now so if you can help out please do or give me the specs so I can measre up and see if I can figure out what I have.
Many thanks to all that answer Rik

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General Mach Discussion / Re: File to save for all Mach3 setup

« on: December 23, 2010, 08:01:57 PM »

I wasgoing to ask the same question thanks Hood for that.

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: Tapping 4mm

« on: December 13, 2010, 07:03:56 PM »

many thanks for that