traditional-tools
Diamond
- Joined
- Aug 10, 2007
- Location
- West Coast
I recently bought a Gamet boring head from Stephen Thomas, but unfortunately it was just a tad big on the Deckel. It had a 3/4" straight shank on it. After using it, the inertia from the heavy head would tighten up the MK4 collet, which is undesirable to me.
I sold that head to digger doug, and found a Wohlhaupter w/4MT shank on ebay for $300 which was clean. Unfortunately it had a non-removable shank...life is such...
The first thing I needed to do is cut down a 2.5" straight to MT4 adapter, I'll use the section of adapter when I want to make Deckel MK4 tooling. Damn, this was tough to cut...there is some method to my marking, but was thinking it through as I was going...you can see I have several marks calculating how long I wanted to the sleeve.
I finally got it cut, the bottom section is what I'll use.
Since the Wohlly has a non-removable shank, I decided to use an angle grinder to wack the top off the Wohlly shank. Much quicker than the adapter sleeve!
I sold that head to digger doug, and found a Wohlhaupter w/4MT shank on ebay for $300 which was clean. Unfortunately it had a non-removable shank...life is such...
The first thing I needed to do is cut down a 2.5" straight to MT4 adapter, I'll use the section of adapter when I want to make Deckel MK4 tooling. Damn, this was tough to cut...there is some method to my marking, but was thinking it through as I was going...you can see I have several marks calculating how long I wanted to the sleeve.
I finally got it cut, the bottom section is what I'll use.
Since the Wohlly has a non-removable shank, I decided to use an angle grinder to wack the top off the Wohlly shank. Much quicker than the adapter sleeve!