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Excellent post from Wild Bill

In a post today, Wild Bill sez:

"From the diameter and length you gave Michael, it looks like they are officially referred to as non-standard Chinese (at least by this source in the UK).

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Any time someone posts a collet chart or comparison guide (or machine spindle tapers), I try to remember to save a shortcut to it/them and put them in a metalworking collet info folder. I had more of them on my last machine, but here are the ones I have presently" Then he listed several relevant URLs.

Visit the UK site to glean a ton of valuable information on collets and just about any other category in the mechanical arts.

One thing I found particularly noteworthy was an essay from the esteemed English Engineer John Stevenson, "Reasons to convert a mill to CNC". It can be found at:

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Although I am not presently a candidate for "conversion to CNC", I found John's article to be an insightful and provocative intro into why someone might want to go CNC.

Bob Swinney

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Robert Swinney
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English Engineer John

That is formally:

Sir John, Earl of Bridgeport & Sudspumpwater. MBE [ Motor Bike Engineer ] Nottingham England.

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Wes

English Engineer John

I think that Nottingham may have disowned Long Eaton, they were lowering the tone of the rest of the county

Mark Rand RTFM

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Mark Rand

I'm afraid that is too much inside baseball for this colonial to parse.

Wes

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Wes

John actually lives/works in the small town of Long Eaton about 8 miles from Nottingham city centre :-)

Mark Rand RTFM

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Mark Rand

Thanks, Bob. Another metalworker's adventures that I used to enjoy seeing was a guy named Orrin (last name started with E or I, maybe). Someone here probably knows who he is.

I used to encounter many more websites of individual's projects and procedures several years ago, but not so many anymore.

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Wild_Bill

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