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I have a new mill drill and it has an imperial 1/2 inch 12TPI drawbar.
I have bought some MT3 taper tooling which has a M12 Metric thread of course it don't fit.
Is it common practice to change the drawbar out with a piece of threaded rod of the correct thread?
Being a brand new mill I am a bit adverse to pulling my mill apart to do this modification, won't it void my warranty?
I thought when buying it, a new mill it would work out of the box with currently made metric tooling. (silly me)
The funniest part is, it is a 2020 Chinese made mill for a German company and it has an Imperial threaded Drawbar. WTF?
I have bought some MT3 taper tooling which has a M12 Metric thread of course it don't fit.
Is it common practice to change the drawbar out with a piece of threaded rod of the correct thread?
Being a brand new mill I am a bit adverse to pulling my mill apart to do this modification, won't it void my warranty?
I thought when buying it, a new mill it would work out of the box with currently made metric tooling. (silly me)
The funniest part is, it is a 2020 Chinese made mill for a German company and it has an Imperial threaded Drawbar. WTF?