Member postings for Tim Chambers

Adventure bikers swear by these:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/like/371212991939?limghlpsr=true&hlpv=2&ops=true&viphx=1&hlpht=true&lpid=108&chn=ps&device=c&adtype=pla&crdt=0&ff3=1&ff11=ICEP3.0.0-L&ff12=67&ff13=80&ff14=108&ff19=0

Edited By Tim Chambers 1 on 16/01/2015 22:08:29

HOORAY!

I took the quill out of the machine and put the spindle down on the vice jaws and gave it a couple of sharp taps with a hammer, success.Looks like it was stucktion, old grease and oil congealed in the taper gluing it together. I reassembled it and ran it with the collet chuck, then I stood back and thought "What do I do now?"

Don't worry I thought the same when I got the lathe and that has to be one of the best purchases i've ever made.

You can bet that I won't!

I'm beginning to wonder if the first owner might have used Loctite, seeing how much there was on the chuck taper.

Edited By Tim Chambers 1 on 17/12/2014 19:21:32

Do mean like this badboy? http://www.screwfix.com/p/titan-ttb278sds-5kg-sds-drill-230-240v/97533 ,I bought it last week after I killed my old Black & Decker drilling the floor for the mounting bolts for the mill.

Well I've been out and had a play this afternoon. I clamped the vise on and stuck a bit of old cast iron in it, found a slightly rusty 7/16" endmill out of my uncle's box of bits and set to with the drawbar in compression (pushing down on the arbor).

It cut a very nice slot, especially as I just threw it together to try it out. Only problem now is the chuck came off the arbor revealing a thick coating of loctite in the taper. The arbor is still stuck fast.

Thanks for all the ideas, gives me something to try. I'm not really a fan of the "Brute force and higgerence" way of doing things,

Or at least the no3 morse taper is.

I have just purchased a refurbished AMA25 mill and this weekend I got it set up on the stand and tried to remove the drill chuck. I slackened the draw bar and gave it a tap with a plastic hammer (PH), no joy. I hit it with the PH, nope, I whacked it really hard, uh uh. I tightened it against the retaining nut so that it was in compression and squirted in some gt85 in through the slot in the quill and left it overnight. Next day I made a cap out of ali to go on the top of the drawbar and hit it with a hammer, still no joy, so I got a bigger hammer, not a chance.

Am I missing something? Has anyone got any ideas before I break something?

Edited By Tim Chambers 1 on 16/12/2014 00:50:00

I took an old newspaper bag with me to the Bristol show, very handy for carrying heavy, hard lumps of metal.

You know if i had been told that I would be quite happy out in the workshop filing away at chunks of metal, trying to get them flat and square I would have said "Nah I haven't got the patience to do that!"