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colchester master 2500
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Limy Sami
Diamond
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- Jan 7, 2007
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- Norfolk, UK
Have you looked here ? http://www.lathes.co.uk/colchester/index.html
Mark Rand
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SAG 180
Titanium
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D1-4 I think.
Thanks guys for your replies.
Unfortunately I can’t find the information in those links
What I am trying to do is fit a collet chuck in the spindle.
I have a collet chuck with a no3 Morse taper and I need a sleeve to make it fit.
It feels like a no5 Morse taper to me but its to small
Measuring the end of the throat, It lucks like a Brown and Sharpe no12 to me but I don’t think that would be right
Unfortunately I can’t find the information in those links
What I am trying to do is fit a collet chuck in the spindle.
I have a collet chuck with a no3 Morse taper and I need a sleeve to make it fit.
It feels like a no5 Morse taper to me but its to small
Measuring the end of the throat, It lucks like a Brown and Sharpe no12 to me but I don’t think that would be right
Limy Sami
Diamond
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- Jan 7, 2007
- Location
- Norfolk, UK
IIRC it's a modified MT and Colchesters supplied an adaptor sleeve as part of the std kit with each lathe ..I've seen a supplier SOMEWHERE online but can't think where,
Try searching for ''Colchester headstock taper sleeve'' and the like.
Clive603
Titanium
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- Aug 2, 2008
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- Sussex, England
Doesn't seem to be any proper hard information out there.
Best to measure the taper and see what the angle actually corresponds to.
Best info I have is that its a Morse, No 5 (?), with the gauge line recessed so the end of the bore is bigger than the taper. A simple plain taper sleeve will end up sat back inside the bore. Such things were common on lathe headstock spindles, presumably to stop folk shoving ordinary MT tooling into the bore.
MT 5 taper is 0.6315" per foot or 0.05625" per inch.
Clive
Best to measure the taper and see what the angle actually corresponds to.
Best info I have is that its a Morse, No 5 (?), with the gauge line recessed so the end of the bore is bigger than the taper. A simple plain taper sleeve will end up sat back inside the bore. Such things were common on lathe headstock spindles, presumably to stop folk shoving ordinary MT tooling into the bore.
MT 5 taper is 0.6315" per foot or 0.05625" per inch.
Clive
Tyrone Shoelaces
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- Apr 19, 2006
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- Manchester, England
Don't they normally come with an adaptor that fits in the spindle nose and allows you fit Morse taper centres etc into the spindle nose ?
Regards Tyrone.
Regards Tyrone.
Limy Sami
Diamond
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- Jan 7, 2007
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- Norfolk, UK
IME They do Tyrone, but the adaptor / sleeve takes up bore diameter, ......so is either never fitted or get's taken out...................and lost.
Tyrone Shoelaces
Diamond
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- Apr 19, 2006
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- Manchester, England
One place I worked at I was nosing around in the toolstores. I pulled open a drawer and there was about six of the adaptors just sat there.
Regards Tyrone.
Regards Tyrone.