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Post by ppplant on Apr 14, 2009 21:44:46 GMT
I have a perfectly good Clare collet chuck, but only 1 milling cutter to fit it. Does anyone know if these cutters can still be ob tained, or have I got a rather unusual ornament for the mantelpiece?
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Post by 2tenths on Apr 15, 2009 12:32:20 GMT
I have a perfectly good Clare collet chuck, but only 1 milling cutter to fit it. Does anyone know if these cutters can still be ob tained, or have I got a rather unusual ornament for the mantelpiece? Hi Not available any more. Clare went belly up many years ago. I have seen them (rarely) on Flea Bay. HTH Tony |
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sapper
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Post by sapper on Apr 15, 2009 18:03:55 GMT
Before I had a Clarkson type I used to grind the end of the cutter shank to fit and that kept me going for many years.
Sapper
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Post by DaveD. on Apr 16, 2009 20:28:28 GMT
 Is this one ?? No good to me .. Mine are all posilock thingies. Only one I've got -- 3/8" --- yours if you PM me with address UK only  Apologies for size of image .. took me 1/2 hour to get this wretched camera to focus . Why are digital cmeras so bloody complicated? I could focus my 35mm Minolta in about 1 Sec flat  Dave |
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Post by ppplant on Apr 17, 2009 18:07:06 GMT
Yes thats a Clare cutter. I have sent you a PM. My digital camera has buttons I have never used and probably never will. I printed the manual off as a hard copy from the cd and it fills an a4 binder.
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Post by DaveD. on Apr 17, 2009 21:03:12 GMT
Phil
PM sent dave
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Post by ajsbsa on Apr 17, 2009 22:43:00 GMT
Digital cameras normaly have a button with a flower symbol, this switches the camera into close focus mode (macro) remember to switch back for normal pictures.
Steve
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Post by DaveD. on Apr 18, 2009 9:54:07 GMT
Hi AJSBSA I'm sure this part of the forum is not for a discourse on digital cameras and my incompetence therewith I was using the flower symbol but what I got was what I posted, a cutter cowering in the middle of a panoramic view of Antarctica. I tried to use optical zoom and manual focus but the camera took over and de-focussed the image. Why, I don't know. So I posted the original version .. after loads of attempts to defeat the device, I failed. I the past I've had several 35mm cameras, all sorts of add-on lenses and got acceptable results. Even did my own enlarging and printing at one time, so I considered I was not an absolute novice. Not any more. I admit defeat ..  I shall crawl away to sulk .... Dave |
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Post by wayne on Apr 19, 2009 14:42:55 GMT
Acording to Arnold thorp you can grip plain shank cutters with a Clair type chuck, see his book vertical milling last chapter
I got a full set of cutters in the early 90s from MES may be worth giving them a ring
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Post by jonkett on Apr 19, 2009 22:38:23 GMT
The great thing about Clare was that they were the only people to do a shank milling cutter larger than 2" or 50mm diameter, and were regarded as a Rolls Royce product. Not much help to the average model engineer, but there you are. You can of course grip them in a ER type collet chuck, again no help if you have the chuck and no cutters
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