Jim in Oakville
Member
Hi,
Years ago I went from the drill press to my lathe for drilling blanks for my pens. I had long tired of drill bits breaking through the sides of expense blanks and with a Talon equipped with spigot jaws I had found a better process.
Over years of drilling like this I found I could minimize waste, drill dead centre and control my depth with great accuracy. The only problem I have had with the Talon has been some cracking on the blanks, usually with larger diameter pens.
The root cause for most of these blanks cracking has been a combined factor of thin walls in the drilled blank and that the pressure of the spigot jaws are directly on the face of the blank.
PSI has recently come out with a new pen chuck for drilling on the lathe. It grips the edge of the blank, not the face, the applied pressure is across the strength of the drilled blank, not the thinned weaker face.
I decided to try it out, I bought the chuck late last year and have turned over 60 pens year to date, I am sold on this tool. If you are thinking about buying it, I'd go for it.
Just my thoughts and wanted to share with you.
Years ago I went from the drill press to my lathe for drilling blanks for my pens. I had long tired of drill bits breaking through the sides of expense blanks and with a Talon equipped with spigot jaws I had found a better process.
Over years of drilling like this I found I could minimize waste, drill dead centre and control my depth with great accuracy. The only problem I have had with the Talon has been some cracking on the blanks, usually with larger diameter pens.
The root cause for most of these blanks cracking has been a combined factor of thin walls in the drilled blank and that the pressure of the spigot jaws are directly on the face of the blank.
PSI has recently come out with a new pen chuck for drilling on the lathe. It grips the edge of the blank, not the face, the applied pressure is across the strength of the drilled blank, not the thinned weaker face.
I decided to try it out, I bought the chuck late last year and have turned over 60 pens year to date, I am sold on this tool. If you are thinking about buying it, I'd go for it.
Just my thoughts and wanted to share with you.