Hi. I have a horizontal milling machine with a No.4 Morse taper spindle. The draw bar is obviously on the back of the machine.
Tightening it and undoing it (with a BIG bronze hammer) is a right pain.... To make mattes worse, the machine is located in front of a wall - the only sensible location in my shed....
Occasionally, it is so hard to loosen and push the tooling out, I had to pull the machine forward on rollers to get a good swing at the end of the drawbar with the hammer. I've now cut a small hole in the wall for such occasions and hit it using a round bar and hammer from the other side of the wall! :
I've been reading about various pneumatic tool changers here and on other forums, but none mention Morse taper tooling.
Does anyone have any good ideas how I could adapt or make something to suit? I can't even visualise how to "hammer" or press the drawbar forward from the back of the machine with anything than a hammer of sorts..... The force required seems awfully big.
Anyone come across this or has some good ideas?
Cheers,
Joe
Tightening it and undoing it (with a BIG bronze hammer) is a right pain.... To make mattes worse, the machine is located in front of a wall - the only sensible location in my shed....
Occasionally, it is so hard to loosen and push the tooling out, I had to pull the machine forward on rollers to get a good swing at the end of the drawbar with the hammer. I've now cut a small hole in the wall for such occasions and hit it using a round bar and hammer from the other side of the wall! :
I've been reading about various pneumatic tool changers here and on other forums, but none mention Morse taper tooling.
Does anyone have any good ideas how I could adapt or make something to suit? I can't even visualise how to "hammer" or press the drawbar forward from the back of the machine with anything than a hammer of sorts..... The force required seems awfully big.
Anyone come across this or has some good ideas?
Cheers,
Joe