[modeleng] Re: Identifying collet chucks
- From: "Tony Wells" <oaksfield@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2005 22:24:21 +0100
That is exactly what happens Dave. Your explanation is a lot better than my
description! Many thanks
Tony.
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Everett" <deverett2003@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, September 02, 2005 9:27 PM
Subject: [modeleng] Re: Identifying collet chucks
> Hi Tony
>
> Sounds like Myford collets. There will be a groove around the wide end
> and that snaps into a
> closing ring that screws onto the Myford spindle nose and draws the collet
> into the taper of the
> spindle.
>
> The tube is used to compress the collet to make it easy to insert it into
> the closing ring. The
> mushroom ended bit pushes the collet out of the tube once it has been
> inserted into the closing
> ring.
>
> Dave
> Saudi-Arabia-On-Sea
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