There would be little advantage to using a mag. chuck on a shaper and likewise there are disadvantages, such as all your chips accumulating on the job and magnetizing the workpiece and tools. If you use the shaper vise with parallels and vise hold downs (see the Starrett catalog for these), you should be able to achieve the same level of accuracy as with a mag. chuck; the hold downs will snug the workpiece down against the parallels and vise jaw tightly.
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Magnetic Chuck on a Shaper?
- Thread starter SmokeWalker
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Yes, trick question, and there is going to be a test! Seriously, I think it could be done, but no good reason to do it, and several bad reasons.
After I left my apprenticeship shop in the early 1970s, one lunkhead boss thought it would be a great idea to mount a huge plate handling magnet on one of the horizontal boring mills to face mill a bunch of plate, his idea managed to magnetize the whole machine to the point where big bunches of chips clung to all the cutting tools; the electricians tried to demagnetize it with big coils of welding cable and AC current, it helped, but no cure; a lifting magnet has a very long depth of field, a mag chuck, not nearly so much. The boss got fired not much later, not for that reason.
This is the absolute worst thing I have ever heard happen to a milling machine.... I don't think you can do anything that would screw up a machine on accident more than this.... Running a grinder in the same room would turn the mill into a fur ball....... lulz
Don't try this you will destroy your machine...
