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The adventure continues....
So the good news is that I made one part on my Logan that paid off about 1/10th of it's purchase price!! Only 9 more to go. :lmao:
Designed a quick part at work that I thought was very simple, with tolerances that a child could hold, but shops around here are so busy that all our regular vendors no-bid the quantity of 1. So I bid on it and the Purchasing dept told me I won. Went home and made the part in 4 hours. A man could get used to this pay rate!! Now the Purchasing Dept is upset because I don't have a "vendor number". Told them if they keep complaining that they would loose their only vendor that delivers in 1 day. (4-8 weeks is the norm for us.) So they quickly decided to make an exception.
But what the part did teach me is that small parts are more easily handled with a collet system. Now my 2555 Logan was originally a turret lathe and it came with portions of a quick release collet system (everything on the left end). What's missing is the part that rides inside the right-end of the spindle. Is that a MT4 inside the spindle ? Some sort of MT4 to 5C collet adapter ? Is that a "Logan only" part ? It mush have a pin to locate the 5C collets.
Can't figure this one out. Anybody got a photo of this adapter ?
So the good news is that I made one part on my Logan that paid off about 1/10th of it's purchase price!! Only 9 more to go. :lmao:
Designed a quick part at work that I thought was very simple, with tolerances that a child could hold, but shops around here are so busy that all our regular vendors no-bid the quantity of 1. So I bid on it and the Purchasing dept told me I won. Went home and made the part in 4 hours. A man could get used to this pay rate!! Now the Purchasing Dept is upset because I don't have a "vendor number". Told them if they keep complaining that they would loose their only vendor that delivers in 1 day. (4-8 weeks is the norm for us.) So they quickly decided to make an exception.
But what the part did teach me is that small parts are more easily handled with a collet system. Now my 2555 Logan was originally a turret lathe and it came with portions of a quick release collet system (everything on the left end). What's missing is the part that rides inside the right-end of the spindle. Is that a MT4 inside the spindle ? Some sort of MT4 to 5C collet adapter ? Is that a "Logan only" part ? It mush have a pin to locate the 5C collets.
Can't figure this one out. Anybody got a photo of this adapter ?