Scuffy
Aluminum
- Joined
- Jan 13, 2007
- Location
- Shores of Lake Erie
So after taking a forced break from slowly learning and working with my 2D due to hectic out of town work schedules... I discovered a thread here that I somehow had overlooked in prior late night research sessions. A gentleman asked John and Ramsay about removing a either a collet or a collet holder that was stuck in his 2D. I'm having a similar problem....
First off it's been how many years since I first started posting about my 2D here and I just now had that "Ah-HA!" moment where I realized that there was a collet holder in the first place. At least one that was able to be removed. Chalk it up to having a better understanding of things now than I did before. Slowly but surely! Anyway. I have decided that I wanted to try my hand at making a new nut to hold a newer 30 taper collet holder... problem being that the left hand nut and every thing that seems to be displayed in the manuals and the pictures I've been looking at are missing from my machine. The "collet draw in rod" seems to have slipped down. This was all done prior to me owning the machine. I'm just hoping that nothing was destroyed when this occurred. How does one go about either getting this rod back out? How does one go about removing the collet holder at this point. I'm at a slight impasse. Unfortunately I still have so much to learn about this machine that I'm gun shy trying too much. Because there aren't exactly replacements out there I'd rather be too careful that not careful enough.
Thanks for your continued help and support gents!!
First off it's been how many years since I first started posting about my 2D here and I just now had that "Ah-HA!" moment where I realized that there was a collet holder in the first place. At least one that was able to be removed. Chalk it up to having a better understanding of things now than I did before. Slowly but surely! Anyway. I have decided that I wanted to try my hand at making a new nut to hold a newer 30 taper collet holder... problem being that the left hand nut and every thing that seems to be displayed in the manuals and the pictures I've been looking at are missing from my machine. The "collet draw in rod" seems to have slipped down. This was all done prior to me owning the machine. I'm just hoping that nothing was destroyed when this occurred. How does one go about either getting this rod back out? How does one go about removing the collet holder at this point. I'm at a slight impasse. Unfortunately I still have so much to learn about this machine that I'm gun shy trying too much. Because there aren't exactly replacements out there I'd rather be too careful that not careful enough.
Thanks for your continued help and support gents!!
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