[modeleng] Re: O/T Christmas greetings

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all modeleng@freelists.
 
Dennis,
 
Good to know that someone else has a battered D-W !
 
I bought a Vertex (which I gather is a Clark type), probably from Chronos.  It 
comes in a nice box, with three collets and a wopping great spanner.....but no 
instructions.  At least a flat-pack from IKEA comes complete with 
pictograms...a vast improvement on the martian tomes that accompany electronic 
gadgetry.  Would-be model engineers are assumed to know how to fit/strip/use 
tools and attachments safely and successfully.  Oh, yes?!
 
The Vertex chuck is, I think, well made, and I would recommend it.  My only 
reservation would be that I wonder if other designs of milling chuck might be 
more suitable for the D-W.
My current project, heading for the scrap-bin, is a pair of cylinders for the 
Paul Forsyth 'Jersey Lilly' design in Gauge 1.  I purchase two slot drills 
(one-sixteenth and one-eighth)from Chronos to mill the steam ports, but I found 
that they are not long enough to engage with the nipple in the chuck, and if 
they were, I would never get the darned things out!  Chronos have kindly 
agreed to exchange the slot-drills for the long series, but I am still waiting 
for them to arrive.
 
I suspect that there are other milling chucks more suitable for small machines, 
but I have no experience of them.  I did wonder about trying the ER25 collet 
chuck, but a problem I find with this on my lathe is that if I remove a work 
piece from it and re-insert it, it does not run true, so I have to undo the 
chuck and rotate the workpiece several times before it is as near as dammit.
 
Nothing is straight-forward in this game!
 
Best wishes,
 
Jem Harrison
Basildon UK
--- On Fri, 26/12/08, Dennis Rayner <dennis.rayner@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

From: Dennis Rayner <dennis.rayner@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [modeleng] Re: O/T Christmas greetings
To: modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Friday, 26 December, 2008, 10:46 AM

Santa was good to me - he brought me a book on milling (never had any 
training in my life) AND spending money!

I've come to the conclusion that I should replace my old Clare chuck with a

new one for my rather battered Dore-Westbury.

I wondered if any of the (UK?) group members had any recomendations as to 
make /model/suppliers?

The D/W has a #2 MT fixing.

Thanks in advance for any advice.

Dennis 

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