The Hardinge mill I bought from Dave Ficken is resting comfortably on
the truck in the driveway. The mill came with an old "Eklind" vertical
milling head, a type with which I am not familiar. Anybody know what
type of collets it uses, and where I can find them?

Kevin Gallimore


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On Sat, 04 Sep 2004 21:35:40 -0400, axolotl wrote:

The Hardinge mill I bought from Dave Ficken is resting comfortably on
the truck in the driveway. The mill came with an old "Eklind" vertical
milling head, a type with which I am not familiar. Anybody know what
type of collets it uses, and where I can find them?

Kevin Gallimore

Does this look familiar?

http://metalworking.com/DropBox/_199...own_Collet.txt

If so it seems that others have been stumped by it as well. A search
on google turned up little more than Lincoln-Eklind's old turn-of-the-
19th-century business records.

On Sun, 05 Sep 2004 04:23:00 -0400, Artemia Salina
wrote:

On Sat, 04 Sep 2004 21:35:40 -0400, axolotl wrote:

The Hardinge mill I bought from Dave Ficken is resting comfortably on
the truck in the driveway. The mill came with an old "Eklind" vertical
milling head, a type with which I am not familiar. Anybody know what
type of collets it uses, and where I can find them?

Kevin Gallimore

Does this look familiar?

http://metalworking.com/DropBox/_199...own_Collet.txt

If so it seems that others have been stumped by it as well. A search
on google turned up little more than Lincoln-Eklind's old turn-of-the-
19th-century business records.

That looks very close to a B3. I have an "M" head that came with a
Hardinge TM coincidentally, which takes the B3. I got some collets
from Dave Ficken. Here's a link to B3 dimensions.

http://www.lathes.co.uk/bridgeport/page10.html

Pete Keillor

Artemia Salina wrote:


Does this look familiar?


Thanks. That's it. It looks as though I have a challenging project for
the lathe.

Kevin Gallimore



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