I have an index mill with , I believe EZ change #30 collets?. (You
can turn the collet holder with a spanner wrench to remove or install
tooling). I would like to use MT drills in the mill. What is the best
way to do this. I assume there is some type of adaptor.I believe I
have up to 3/4 or 1 in. collets. Thanks for your help.
Newby Bob
There's three flavors of 30 taper that I know of: CAT30, BT30, and NMTB30.
You need to find which one you have. Or something else entirely, maybe. All
three have adaptors to Morse 1,2,3,4,5. I have some NMTB30 to Morse 3 to
sell.
Karl
The NMTB-30 has a flat flange just past the gauge line (the
largest diameter on the taper), with a pair of notches 180 degrees
apart.
The CAT-30 has a much thicker flange, with a V-shaped groove in
the edge, which is used by the automatic tool changing turret.
I think that the BT-30 is similar to the CAT-30, but with some
dimensional differences.
All three have the same taper dimensions, and differ in the
flange dimensions and in the method used to pull them into the spindle.
The NMTB-30 uses either a drawbar which threads into the back of it to
pull it in, or a rotating collar with a pair of tabs which pass through
the notches, then rotate and pull down on the flange to hold it.
The CAT-30, and the BT-30 both have studs threaded into the
back of the taper which are gripped by some form of hook or collet, and
which pull the taper up into the spindle's female taper.
The thread for the studs seems to be different from that for the
NMTB-30 -- at least based on the differences I find in the various
40-taper equivalents which I use in my Nichols mill via a drawbar.
If you don't have a tool changing turret on your machine, this
increases the chance that it is the NMTB-30.
If it uses a threaded drawbar, you should be able to make any of
the above work -- but that would not be a quick-change, so it is
unlikely here, I think.
Note that there is another kind of quick-change tool which also
uses the 30 designation, but instead of having a flange with two notches
180 degrees apart, it instead has two ears 180 degrees apart -- sort of
it has metal where the others have notches, and nothing where the others
have metal.
I hope that this is some help.
Good Luck,
DoN.
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