In article ,
Gunner wrote:
On Fri, 30 Jul 2004 22:44:53 +0200, "Jacko"
wrote:

Does anyone know if someone makes an adaptor so that one can use ER collets
on a Lorch 10mm clockmaker's lathe?

Many Thanks

Jacko

No..but Ill sell you a very nice LLK Lorch.

And if you're wondering what that non-sequitur was about, you
posted as a follow-up to an earllier thread, changing only the "Subject: "
line, not also editing out the "References: " header which would have
divorced it from the original thread, and prevented it from being a
similar non-sequitur.

Your newsreader should have an option for starting an original
article, which is different from a "Followup", and which would not leave
the links in place in the "References: " header.

As an example, here is a thread map as produced by my newsreader
(it will probably appear distorted if you view it in a variable-pitch font,
but a fixed-pitch one, such as Courier (the most common fixed-pitch one)
will show it as it should be:

================================================== ====================
[1] static phase converter question
[2] ER to Lorch?

(1)+-(1)
|-(2)--(2)
\-(1)
================================================== ====================

The numbers represent different subject lines, and the upper occurrences
of them show which actual subject line goes with each number. Your
request came in in the middle of the thread as the first "(2)",
appearing as a response to a thread discussing a totally different
topic. If your newsreader does not handle threads, you probably did not
see this, but it happened, and is disconcerting to those of us to *do*
use newsreaders which handle threading properly.

As for your original question, I would have to say that I would
consider most sizes of ER collets to be too large for a 10mm lathe.
(Certainly the 25mm ones which my Compact-5 uses would be too large).

Normally, the 10mm lathes use size "D" collets with a drawbar,
and the spindle is already designed to handle them. (Though I have never
handled a Lorch, so I don't know for sure that this is the case here.)
I *have* used a Derbyshire lathe in the past.

Good Luck,
DoN.
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