Chuck key magnet

I use pieces of the unworn edges of old bed sheets held by Radio Shack magnets to keep chips off the mill ways. One of them is also well placed to hold the chuck key.

The lower magnets attract chips, of course, so I fold the cloth around them.

jsw

Neat idea! I'll have to try that.

I have my chuck key on a shelf right behind the drill press.

CarlBoyd

Yeah, I remember dickin' around with chuck keys. Not since I put that nice SPI keyless on my drill press. Never again.

Bob

On Sun, 30 Aug 2009 01:11:50 -0400, the infamous "Buerste" scrawled the following:

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but whips and chains excite me.

I plopped a RE magnet onto the face of my drill press a few years ago and haven't misplaced a chuck key since. (That's nearly a full dozen uses!)

"warped up"? Would that be aluminum or brass swarf, Tawm?

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Yup!

I taped some of those magnets to a shelf near the mill and store my chuck key, collet wrench, T-nut clamp wrench and a couple different allen wrenches thereon.

It is very fast and convenient.

--Winston

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Well ... I've still got a chuck key on a retracting chain (like sometimes used on belts for door-lock keys) -- but I haven't used it for years. I have a very nice Jacobs keyless (their semi-clone of the Albrecht ones) on the drill press -- and the only time I'll need a chuck key is for handling larger straight shanked bits (with a 5/8" or 3/4" keyed chuck) -- or eventually for running in reverse when I add that feature to the drill press. Most keyless chucks don't work well in reverse. :-)

As for the chain being a PITA -- I don't remember it being so with the retractor. The key also has a spring around the pilot, so you can't leave it in the chuck.

Enjoy, DoN.

Here is a good tip. Place a cylindrical magnet on the end of a dowel. Run the magnet and dowel down a stainless or plastic tube closed on the end so that the dowel can slide up and down in this tube of about

18" long. Now use this assembly as a chip wand gathering chips. After retrieval, hold the tube over a container and withdraw the dowel. The chips simply fall off the tube. Steve

because I was punishing it, it would just get

a handful of 1/2" x 1/4" cylinder neodymium

pressed in a magnet. These little guys have a 2

and would get warped up easily. It's also great

These little but powerful magnets - can turn a watch into mush. Caution.

Mart> Buerste wrote:

On Sun, 30 Aug 2009 21:55:18 -0500, the infamous "Martin H. Eastburn" scrawled the following:

My Casio is entirely immune to even the highest magnetism, Martin. ;)

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That's the only reason you can wear it!

Don't bet on it. Solid state can have issues in a magnetic field. The fact that you don't have a mainspring doesn't mean you don't have steel gears.

Mart> On Sun, 30 Aug 2009 21:55:18 -0500, the infamous "Martin H. Eastburn"

On Mon, 31 Aug 2009 21:30:28 -0500, the infamous "Martin H. Eastburn" scrawled the following:

Hey, I'll send you my old Casio or Timex. See if you can find a magnet gnarly enough to affect it. I've got five bucks against it. ;)

-- Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters. --Daniel Webster

My arrangement is slightly different. I have a large permanent magnet (from a PM motor) stuck on top of my drill press, and I just need to place the chuck key somewhere in the vicinity of the magnet and it'll grab the key. Definitely beats the chain arrangement I used to have.

Terry

I didn't realize there was a gearbox in those LCD displays. Must be a masterpiece of micro-engineering

Mark Rand RTFM

Ditto, but from a hard disk. This was immediately after the occasion when I wasted a whole hour trying to work out where I'd left the bloody chuck key...

Mark Rand RTFM

On Sat, 05 Sep 2009 23:36:38 +0100, the infamous Mark Rand scrawled the following:

As you saw, I left Martin to his weird dreams.

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