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The back story.
I have a Francis Reed drill press that I have been tinkering with for a few months now.
The previous owner used a bolt that had been roughly ground down to resemble a MT#2 by hand to hold the chuck in place.
He fought with it, and tried to drive his home made taper into place with a BFH, and he also confessed that it had spun in the socket numerous times.
In frustration he sold it to me.
I pulled the shaft and centered it in the 4 jaw and took a skim cut to clean it up a bit.
I checked the socket with a MT2 drill adapter, and found that the socket is shaped similar to this.
The socket is not long enough to re-ream the hole, so a MT2 is out of the equation.
I do have a MT3 reamer, but the shaft is not big enough in diameter for a MT3.
Could I make a sleeve and silver solder it onto the end of the shaft to add to the diameter?
Should I thread and locktight on a sleeve?
Should I just wheel it out to the curb and tell y'all where it is?(sarcasm!)
What do y'all think?
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I have a Francis Reed drill press that I have been tinkering with for a few months now.
The previous owner used a bolt that had been roughly ground down to resemble a MT#2 by hand to hold the chuck in place.
He fought with it, and tried to drive his home made taper into place with a BFH, and he also confessed that it had spun in the socket numerous times.
In frustration he sold it to me.
I pulled the shaft and centered it in the 4 jaw and took a skim cut to clean it up a bit.
I checked the socket with a MT2 drill adapter, and found that the socket is shaped similar to this.
The socket is not long enough to re-ream the hole, so a MT2 is out of the equation.
I do have a MT3 reamer, but the shaft is not big enough in diameter for a MT3.
Could I make a sleeve and silver solder it onto the end of the shaft to add to the diameter?
Should I thread and locktight on a sleeve?
Should I just wheel it out to the curb and tell y'all where it is?(sarcasm!)
What do y'all think?
Sent from my SM-S320VL using Tapatalk
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