List of collets anywhere?

[Peter.]

Is there a resource anywhere that lists different collets with dimensions etc, specifically miniature ones? I have a machine that comes with a single collet that I would like to see if it matches something more common.

[Davo J]

Here is one
http://www.tools-n-gizmos.com/specs.html

Dave

[panchula]

http://www.tyler.net/drspiff/machini...ts/Collets.htm

[Peter.]

Thanks for those links - I'll take a look through them!

[Peter.]

Well, rather incredibly I seem to have discovered a supply of spare parts as the company are still trading. I've fired off an email to ask for literature and parts availability, though I've had to send it in English.

This is what I have:

http://www.rawyler.ch/Website/Ersatz...hine_TF-2.html

[uncle pete]

Pete,
An interesting horizontal mill, It looks to be around the same size as the Atlas mill. No Y axis screw but the spindle movement does that. That's a different set up that I've never seen on a small horizonral mill. Wonder why they went with that design? What collets does your mill take? If their still in business then you might want to get prepared for a severe shock. I know I was when I priced out a few Atlas parts from Clausing.

Pete

[rohart]

That mill must be for a specialised purpose.

I can understand most of the design, but why is the table rounded at the front ? There's a lot of machining to create that profile. And why not a little wider as well ?

Do you know what it was originally intended for ? And although that guy has more collets than I've had hot dinners, I still don't know what one collet looks like.

[Peter.]

This mill is much smaller than an Atlas - I carried it complete through the house!

The table can tilt and roll, I don't know how much just yet as I haven't got round to servicing it - still cleaning up the chassis.

This is a beautifully built machine. A little neglected but not butchered and perfectly serviceable. The scraping on the tapered gibs is really nice and it has oilways everywhere. The only concern I have right now is one of the gib adjusters is stuck and they are tiny with just a small slot in the head.

Mine has a lever-operated table unlike the one in the picture, it works on the two holes you can see in the pic below the table. It also has no dial adjustment for the knee, just having the spider handle on the front. From what I can gather, you can have two methods of lifting the knee - the front handle for coarse adjustment and the dial on the right hand side which operates a bevel gear for a screw inside the knee ram. Mine has the drilling in the casting but none of the gear. I'm sure that is what you can see in the parts boxes - upgrade parts from the basic model to fine adjustment.

If the parts are very expensive I will look at producing my own, should only have to buy the bevel gears and make the rest.

I don't know if the castings in those pics are for dividing head & tailstock or for the vertical attachment. Making a vertical attachment would not be too hard and there are pics on Tony's site to go by.

All in all, it's a little cutie of a machine. Not decided yet what I'm going to do with it.

[uncle pete]

Pete,
When they were being sold you could order an Atlas horizontal mill with levers for operation. From the little I've read about it they were used as a production machine. Once the job was set up and the table stops correctly positioned then you just started making parts.

Haveing the table tilt and roll would be I'd guess a universal machine. That would answer why the front edge of the table has a radius on it.

Pete

[jugs]

Dinky mill,

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