Ain't worth the scrap rate of iron..........they are all junk

On Fri, 25 Jul 2003 13:16:44 -0400, Jack Erbes
wrote:

On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 21:10:09 -0400, "Doug Arthurs"
wrote:

Saw this on E-bay today.
http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?...egory=12 72&r
d=1 Any opinions on this. Seems like he wants a lot of money for it. I
wouldn't mind having one as I don't have room for a real milling macine but
I wonder if these things are worth buying. It uses a morse taper collet and
I'm uncertain if they would have enough holding power. Also would this cause
excessive wear to my old Atlas? Then there's the question of whether it
would be a big pain in the ass to setup.

The price seems a little outrageous.

The original collet setup on the Atlas consisted of a nose piece type,
hardened and ground collet holder (that went into the spindle end), a
spindle cap to protect the spindle threads and also unseat the collet
holder for removal, and a drawbar for the collets. That used 3AT
collets (near duplicates of the South Bend 3C collets) and the drawbar
handle was tapped with a soft hammer to unseat the collets.

I used that equipment for holding material for turning and also for
holding cutters when using the milling attachment as seen on the
auction. The milling attachment is tall and not a benchmark for
rigidity. But lights cuts with good cutters and some patience will
let you accomplish some meaningful work.

One thing I used mine for was cutting extractor slots in the end of
rifle and pistol barrels because I did not have any other way to make
small, intricate, cuts on the end of a long object.



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