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MT3 x 10mm

I recently acquired some MT3 tooling from a guy who changed his MiniMill to R8. The kit contains a 5-piece set of endmill holders in the usual 3/16" to

3/4" sizes. Their drawbar looked a bit smaller than the 12mm bar that shipped with my Grizzly MiniMill, so I had assumed the threading was 3/8-16. Closer inspection when I got the stuff home showed the threads to be 10x1.5mm. Neither Griz, LMS, McMaster, nor Enco appear to stock 10mm. Swell, I bought orphans. Can anyone point me to a vendor who supports 10mm?
Reply to
John
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Do you have or can you get a 10-1.5mm die? Should be relatively easy to make up a drawbar given a random length of appropriately sized rod stock. Or you could see about some metric all-thread. Yeah, it's a hassle, but not fatal. Cheaper than buying new ones!

Stan

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stans4

New drawbars are not expensive.

John

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john

So, where do I find them in 10x1.5mm?

Reply to
John

Home depot.

Buy a socket head cap screw in your thread, cut off the head, tig weld to the end of a chunk of Stressproof or whatever you have on hand..and you have a new draw bolt.

Gunner

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Gunner

South America, Europe, Australia, Asia, even in Africa.

Notice a pattern?

Reply to
Mike

Third world countries?

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Michael A. Terrell

======== Actually you may be able to use a (semi) standard SHCS. When I got a boring head for my Emco the shank had a 3/8 thd rather than the metric the collet adapter used. Stoped by my fastener store and they had one for me in two days.

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F. George McDuffee

No they are continents, an easy mistake for a yank to make, Iraq being just to the east of Cuba, both being just a few miles from downtown Miami.

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Mike

Fwiw... I know 10mm is common in some other countries, but this stuff was purchased from a U.S. supplier.

Reply to
John

Yawn. You are as dense as pure unobtanium.

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Michael A. Terrell

It may be possible to tap out the M10 to M12, a similar conversion is mentioned here

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, or just get a spare drawbar and modify it to M10. You might enquire with
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as they seem to list various drawbars for minimills, such as listed in
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, not M10 specifically but maybe they can help.

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David Billington

So all those Hondas, Mazdas, Nissans and Toyotas made and sold in the US have inch fasteners? :-)

Tom

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Tom

Get a bolt from a Chevy dealer and do the cut and weld. Chev trucks are full of them!

Welome to metric! Whether you like it or not, it's already in YOUR neigborhood to stay.

:-)

Cheers Trevor Jones

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Trevor Jones

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