Where does a person find the adapters? The same place someone finds the mating tooling. Here- there- everywhere and when you're LOOKING for it NO WHERE.
So me being the tool junkie that I am (maybe was), when I saw I had all these flash change 30 taper end mill holders, and then got some 30 taper flash change endmillls,
I watched ebay for years for DEVLIEG tooling. I MAY be the only person in the world to not only have ONE but TWO #30 flashchange to SIP 4E adapters. How incredibly useless.
I have a #30 flashchange to 40 taper adapter too. SEVERAL 50 NMTB to 40 taper flash change adapters. The ONE adapter I DO use a lot is a flashchange 40 taper to SIP4E taper.
This allows me to use ALL of my devlieg JigMill tooling with the flashchange shank on my SIPS- effectively tripling my range of boring bars for the Sips. I also have around 8 flashchange to Ex-cell-O
boring spindle adapters. Again these allow me to use flash change boring bars in my double end boring machines. Pretty cool. Ten years ago, these adapters came up on ebay as people cleaned up,
I've seen them come up occasionally when I partake in my usual Devlieg search, these days, but NOT in the volume they used to.
Not that a person with hundreds of endmills would consider it, BUT the Devlieg Microbore division was sold to a company in Michigan called Mistaquay. You could get sticker shock, and ASK how much
they would charge for an adapter. Devlieg MADE these adapters to fit just about any machine ever made. BUT they're as obsolete as your cutters are. I'd bet if Mistaquay would even make an adapter NEW, the sucker would cost
four grand- maybe even more.
So I've GOT to ask, where in the world did you come up with 100"s of cutters, new in the wax? You may have the largest inventory of these in the world at this point. Heck if you SOLD an adapter years ago, and it was on ebay,
I probably BOUGHT it from you.
So you've got a pile of endmills with flash change ends. I DO use on occasion, the fifty taper to 40 taper adapter in one of my big vertical mills. Saves me from stretching my arms and changing tools by
unscrewing the drawbar. But typically I'm using carbide insert cutters in a flash change shell mill arbor. Going back to HSS steel endmills, is going backwards.
Well JR- thanks for planning my funeral for me. My wife has this nasty habit of burying ASHES in our front yard, complete with a granite marker.. Much easier to dig, NO rebar on 1 foot centers and concrete that's in places, 12 inches thick.
I'm NOT a real manufacturing plant like yours. You're in the BIG leagues, I'm just a wanna-be.