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I actually have a drawbar for my MT3 in my lathe spindle. When I was using a milling adapter on the lathe, before I had a mill. I bought an MT3 to 3/8 or 1/2 endmill weldon. It fit well, but the side cutting pushed it out of the bore. It's not a Chineese unit, it's either Israeli or German, can't remember.. I had to add a drawbar to keep it in.No drawbar on a lathe, just the thunk when it seats.
Usually in tailstock the pressure from drilling seats it fine as log as tooling is of correct size.
Sometimes we get crazy and a little help needed.
The old days they has cross bar supports for reducing spinning of tailstock supported tooling.
The chuck key for Jacobs chuck does well, the rod of the key fits the holes so you can support the chuck.
This is a 3.5 inch hole through 1.25 thick plate from scrapyard.
Chuck key is resting on OCTP, cutting at maybe 60 rpm, VFD are handy.
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edit: It's made by ETM
@tq60 nice lathe, what is it? Also, before you turned the outside of the flame cut, I assume you ground it with an angle grinder? I tried without on one piece and just went through lots of carbide.. The next one I ground and it was a cake walk by comparison.
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