Router conversion

Router conversion

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22 February 2014 at 13:10 #17308
Rod Ashton
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How to add collets
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22 February 2014 at 13:10 #144669
Rod Ashton
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I have an old 1/4" router put into service as a high speed quill. I can pop in a pin chuck but this is fairly lightweight and only used for very small drills. I have several kinds of spare smallish collet systems ( many Ericksons ) but they are either too big a chuck size to convert or too long to be stable. Short of making a new stubby Erickson c/chuck with a 1/4" shaft, I am a bit short of in house inspiration or new product sourcing

If anyone has converted a 1/4" drive to collets, for woodworking CNC for instance. I would be grateful to share your experience.

Edited By Rod Ashton on 22/02/2014 13:20:41
22 February 2014 at 14:19 #144672
Keith Long
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Depending on what materials you're working with you might find that Trend or C MT have suitable routing bits and drill that will fit straight into the collet on the spindle. Trend certainly do router bits and possibly drills for aluminium as well as plastics and composites.

The alternative would be to make collets to fit direct to the router shaft that will accept the shank sizes that you wish to use, or make some adaptor sleeves. Depending on what cutters you want it might be possible to get them with 1/4 shanks. Microdrills have 1/8 shanks I believe so one or two home made collets might be all that you need.

Trend do make and supply collet extensions but they use the bigger shaft diameter – normally 8mm upwards or they might even be 12mm and up.

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