Re: Flashcut on a taig mill

Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 07:19:07 +0100
From: Tony Jeffree <tony@...>
Subject: Re: Flashcut on a taig mill

At 02:12 29/05/2002 +0000, I wrote:

>[No it can deal with millimeters as well. They don't make metric collets,
>though, so the tooling has to have Imperial shanks. By the way, does anyone
>out there know of a source for small metric ball-end endmills on inch
>shanks, or would these have to be custom-manufactured?]

The UK distributor (Quantum CNC) manages to sell 6mm collets with the Taig;
don't know if they do this as a special for him or whether they also sell
them in the US.


Regards,
Tony

[That's interesting, Tony. Since Taig makes no mention of stocking any
metric collets (and didn't admit to having any when asked), I wonder if
this is really a 6mm collet or just the 1/4" collet with a little extra
squeeze. Using "Convert" (a free program from Josh Madison which is good for
translating all sorts of measurements:
http://www.joshmadison.com/software/convert/ ) I find that 6mm is pretty
close: 0.2362198". The 1/8" collet would likewise be a fairly good fit for
3mm (0.1181099"), although I haven't actually tried it.]

Andrew Werby
www.computersculpture.com