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Hello all,
I have cleaned up my PM932 tonight and started checking out the stuff I had ordered with the machine.
I assembled the drill chuck on the arbor and all went well. Runout seems good although I am not a pro at indicating, just trying to get it right.
After that, I found out I cannot insert my R8 collets in the spindle. The alignment pin inside the spindle seems to make contact with the bottom of the slot in the collet.
On the picture below: R8 collet to the left and R8 to MT(?) arbor and chuck to the right.
I measured both shanks are same diameter (24mm)
R8 collet slot is 4mm wide while chuck arbor is 5mm
On the picture below you can see the slots depths
R8 collet slot is 1,5mm deep while chuck arbor is 3mm deep
I may have attempted to modify these to fit but since I dont have working collets I cannot really hold my endmills (except in the chuck but doesnt seem to be wise)
These are advertised as having a 10 year warranty so I could just return them to PM
Is there an quick way to fix this or am I better off returning these?
I have cleaned up my PM932 tonight and started checking out the stuff I had ordered with the machine.
I assembled the drill chuck on the arbor and all went well. Runout seems good although I am not a pro at indicating, just trying to get it right.
After that, I found out I cannot insert my R8 collets in the spindle. The alignment pin inside the spindle seems to make contact with the bottom of the slot in the collet.
On the picture below: R8 collet to the left and R8 to MT(?) arbor and chuck to the right.
I measured both shanks are same diameter (24mm)
R8 collet slot is 4mm wide while chuck arbor is 5mm
On the picture below you can see the slots depths
R8 collet slot is 1,5mm deep while chuck arbor is 3mm deep
I may have attempted to modify these to fit but since I dont have working collets I cannot really hold my endmills (except in the chuck but doesnt seem to be wise)
These are advertised as having a 10 year warranty so I could just return them to PM
Is there an quick way to fix this or am I better off returning these?