The latest Member of my Shop

[Justturnin]

She just arrived. Nothing like that new blown plastic smell mixed with oil dripping off everything to make your day. I bought these for a specific non-pen job but will be bringing it over to the dark side when that is done. Off to clean the oil off now....

 

[firewhatfire]

I have its twin in my shop.

 

[D.Oliver]

Is that the PSI one?

 

[PSU1980]

Nice addition Chris, I have been wanting a set. You will have to let us know how you it.

 

[Justturnin]

Is that the PSI one?

It is. I picked it up off Amazon for $60. Someone posted the other day, sorry I cant remember their name to give credit, but I jumped on it then.

 

[ironman123]

Nice buy Chris.

Ray

 

[PTsideshow]

Best price I had found was here before that one, Craft Supplies $89.00

Same stuff different color case
:clown:

 

[cwolfs69]

that is near to being the best investment i have made so far. use mine daily. i have been doing my turning with the collet. i place the bushings on the mandrel, no adaptor, put in my 1/4 collet and shorten to just enough for blank. use live center. works as well as TBC IMHO. love my collet. am working a little at a time on obtaining all the sizes.

 

[mson]

I went to Amazon to order a set of collets for $60.00 but they are back up to $73.47

I wonder how offen they discount them to $60 ???

 

[alphageek]

I went to Amazon to order a set of collets for $60.00 but they are back up to $73.47

I wonder how offen they discount them to $60 ???

Make sure that you are signed in, and add them to your cart but don't buy. A week or two later do the same thing. That seems to trigger Amazons tracking stuff to send an email sometimes and will often come with a discount to try and entice you to bite the bullet!

 

[nsfr1206]

Twin? I think I have it's triplet. I bought one too and got it day before yesterday.

 

[danrs]

that is near to being the best investment i have made so far. use mine daily. i have been doing my turning with the collet. i place the bushings on the mandrel, no adaptor, put in my 1/4 collet and shorten to just enough for blank. use live center. works as well as TBC IMHO. love my collet. am working a little at a time on obtaining all the sizes.

Charlie, could you explain more about how this is done? What is TBC IMHO?

 

[Justturnin]

works as well as TBC IMHO. love my collet. am working a little at a time on obtaining all the sizes.

Charlie, could you explain more about how this is done? What is TBC IMHO?

TBC - Turn Between Centers
IMHO - In My Honest Opinion

He is pretty much using a 1/4" pin as a Mandrel. Much more rigid than a longer 1/4" Pen Mandrel and likely better steel. To me it sounds similar to using an adjustable mandrel or a Mandrel Saver and turning only one part at a time. I mainly switched to TBC becasue I got tired of having to losen my Tailstock to remove the part to measure w/ my Cali's, I think I'm just lazy though.

 

[cwolfs69]

TBC-turb between centers, IMHO-in my humble opinion. i put the mandrel in a 1/4" collet. i put the budhings and blank on the mandrel with a nut as you would. the diference is that i do not use spacer bushings. i use 1 short spacer to get the blank away from the collet chuck. then i slide the mandrel all the way back in the collet and tighten. that way i only have a minimal amount of length. i use my live center as you would with the mandrel in regular fashion. very sturdy. runs within .003" all the time. l have about 50 sets of bushings so very expensive to buy TBC bushings. i still use digital calipers for size.

Sent from my Galaxi via forerunner

 

[Alzey]

Nice. Got one a few months ago and got some size D drill rod and a mandrel saver. This has eliminated almost all of my out of round issues. Can't wait to start using my on bullet pens.