Spruewell
Hot Rolled
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- Sep 8, 2015
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- Northern California
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Help identifying collets
- Thread starter Spruewell
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JRIowa
Diamond
- Joined
- May 27, 2003
- Location
- Marshalltown, Iowa, USA
What make is the tapping head?
A scale alongside the collets would also help.
Do the collets also have a square at the bottom?
Maybe I'm missing something, but how do you run a live tapping head from a lathe with no live tooling?
JR
A scale alongside the collets would also help.
Do the collets also have a square at the bottom?
Maybe I'm missing something, but how do you run a live tapping head from a lathe with no live tooling?
JR
Spruewell
Hot Rolled
- Joined
- Sep 8, 2015
- Location
- Northern California
The live tooling option on this machine is not some cobbled on bastard adaptation. The machine came with this option from Miyano. For scale, the collet has a 5/16 hole in it. At first glance, it is very similar to the “ER” series collets and would fall somewhere between an ER11 and ER16 in size except that the tapers do not meet at a groove, but rather a step. The back end of the collet is externally keyed, square internally and can spin independently from the rest of the collet.
tnmgcarbide
Diamond
- Joined
- Jul 6, 2004
- Location
- N. GA- 33.992N , -83.72W usa
looks like an RDO style or possibly a TG-50 tap collet.
Spruewell
Hot Rolled
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- Sep 8, 2015
- Location
- Northern California
Thank you! The RDO-16 or RDO-20 style looks pretty darn close. Still looking to see if there is a tapping variant that would have the free spinning, keyed back end. The TG style don’t have the tapered front end like this one does.
JRIowa
Diamond
- Joined
- May 27, 2003
- Location
- Marshalltown, Iowa, USA
Also check RDG/TG. I know they sell tap collets in that style.
JR
JR
Spruewell
Hot Rolled
- Joined
- Sep 8, 2015
- Location
- Northern California
Still unable to identify this collet. Been searching the internet and still no matches
