Luxury!! I'm still waiting for 318.

cheers I think

Bill

Wonder if the new owners of the mag. will be prepared, for anyone following this example, to pay compensation in the event of an injury to any of its customers by following this example? An explanation in the text doesn't hold water cos let's face it, in many cases, 'If all else fails, RTFM'. In recent history, the same mag was criticized for showing the conversion of a battery powered drill from an internal battery to an external power pack, connection between the two by means of a 13A plug and socket. '240V into 18V causes a rapid release of the magic smoke if plugged into the wrong socket'.

I left an American forum years ago for exactly the same reason of an "Experienced" poster showing exactly the same thing in one of his posts. His excuse being "I've done this for thirty years" and yes, I've got one or two scars after fifty years in industry AND home shop stupidity but if one or two harsh comments stops a 'newbie' having to attend A&E – – – –

Regards Ian.

the ‘misuse’ of mains plugs goes much further back – one of my first repair jobs as a teenager(just! – it being over 60yrs ago) was to fix a school loudspeaker that my schoolmaster father brought home – the school used a single wireless to transmit the schools music programs to the classrooms in his infants school – the school being old had also wired in the mains to each classroom – both systems used the small round pin 5A plug and socket – with the inevitable results.

Edited By Frances IoM on 18/10/2022 12:03:34

I've clicked the magazines link on the bar above, and tried via pocketmags, and the latest I can find is issue 320. Is something amiss?

Whilst I see your point in principle if you had opened the magazine and looked at the article the end mill was being used to take tiny cuts on a brass bracket the cutting area being very much less than half the diameter of the milling cutter. In addition the cutter size is small compared to the drill chuck and the operator obviously had no problems making the cut. As to the holding power of keyless chucks if a chuck of that size can handle the cutting forces of a 10mm drill used in anger I feel it should be up to this light duty. Admittedly brass is less than forgiving as regards to grabbing cutting tools however in this instance use of the drill chuck seems justifiable. All that said it would be interesting to know why that chuck was chosen over a clarkson or an er chuck, the article doesn’t say, maybe it gave a little more daylight to the set up being less bulky.

regards Martin

As an aside the only injury would be to the workpiece rather than the operator if the cutter was drawn out of the chuck.

Edited By Martin Kyte on 18/10/2022 21:09:04

Edited By Martin Kyte on 18/10/2022 21:10:10

Yes it's a shame that the photo is next to all the "boring" safety advice and also a similar setup used elsewhere when a collet chuck was available.

Stick out of cutter was also a bit more than I like to use but that may well be due to the limited depth that could have been got into the keyless chuck.

Don't know about others but drill arbors used on my mill have drawbars so taper releasing would not be an issue.

PS Digital now available

PPS Not sure the advice to wear cotton gloves is ideal either

Edited By JasonB on 19/10/2022 07:01:21

It's hard to see how the operator would be hurt unless the cutter broke.

The work piece is however another matter, this sort of dodge is best left to something which will be hidden so if it does take an extra big chunk out it will be hidden. That said if the item is not held securely as well the item may be wrecked.

The habit of new mills being supplied only with drill chucks does tend to make it look OK.

If the chuck is on a Jacobs taper most are) then drawbar won't help.