I consider myself experienced and capable, but have never attempted this. I have a big old drill chuck that i`m thinking about threading to screw onto my micro mill 3/4-16 spindle. Has anyone done something like this?
As far as I can see it would be pretty simple:
As far as I can see it would be pretty simple:
- Turn an arbor in a collet on my lathe.
- Tighten the chuck jaws onto the arbor
- Single point the threads inside the chuck body
- Face off the back of the chuck for a sort of "register" since that is how the mill registers attachments
- Gain back about 2 inches of room that I need in order to ream out a series of holes