ER.........Who am I kidding.......BIG COLLET AND NUT????

[Suzuki4evr]

I do a lot of excavator backhoe bushing and pins and I make them semi finished,harden them at the heat treatment company and then grind them to size with my toolpost grinder.
I do as much as I can to protect my lathe bed from the grinding swarf,but I wanted to protect my new bison 4jaw scroll chuck as well,especially when doing the ID. So I made a collet with BIG collet nut to clamp the bushing externally so I don't have to clamp it in the chuck. For the external grinding I have the expansion collets wich I already posted on.




The ID of the one side is 60mm and on the other side 55mm for two different size bushes. The thread is M70×1.5 and the collet nut is 85mm OD and made to use a C-spanner. It all works great and makes it very easy to change the bushes for grinding. Quick and easy,just the way I like it.

 

[mikey]

You did a really nice job on that!

 

[RandyM]

 

[brino]

Great job!
Could you also rig up a thru-the-spindle shop vacuum to help capture more of the dust?
Of course, you'd need one without a flammable filter (paper/fabric)...or perhaps a water filter like sometimes used for drywall dust.
-brino

 

[magicniner]

Is that "ER Crikey!" ?

 

[Suzuki4evr]

Great job!
Could you also rig up a thru-the-spindle shop vacuum to help capture more of the dust?
Of course, you'd need one without a flammable filter (paper/fabric)...or perhaps a water filter like sometimes used for drywall dust.
-brino

I use coolent to grind so there is no dust. I don't like grinding dry because that stuff goes EVERYWHERE. The water keep it down and collect in a quick made tray. But I am sure a vacuum is doable if you want to.

 

[Suzuki4evr]

Is that "ER Crikey!" ?

I think it is more of an external compresion clamping collet than"ER". If you want to give it a name. "Crikey" .....got to love that word

 

[woodchucker]

I use coolent to grind so there is no dust. I don't like grinding dry because that stuff goes EVERYWHERE. The water keep it down and collect in a quick made tray. But I am sure a vacuum is doable if you want to.

Make sure the water has a rust inhibitor. You'll be glad you did later

 

[Suzuki4evr]

I have a resorvoir water tank with soluble oil in,so I am covered. It is a 1.5m between centres lathe and came with the tank.