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I use enough stickout that there is no problem grinding the collet nut. I sometimes use an ER16 collet chuck for smaller drills..
I have a 5c to Er32 for my spindexer.. I wanted to use it on my surface grinder.. it really adds to the stickout tremendously.I've considered getting a 5C to ER 32 chuck to grind drill bits in my shars unit. Has anyone had any success with this, or is the stickout too much?
@Illinoyance I'll attach a picture when I offload my camera, but when I pulled the barrel from the other end mill flute attachment I could see where they installed a similar set screw collet key. It looks like they drilled/tapped a hole in the barrel, set it in with some Locktite & ground the proud excess off the OD... plus a little extra divot for good measure. Probably for oil retention haha. So I suspect the work head barrel will be similar set screw installation.I dismantled the work head and removed the set screw. Attacking it with a Dremel would be a good alternative. As I remember on my grinder the width of the screw was s much a problem as the projection. The other approach is to modify the key ways in the collets.