Originally Posted by
coyoteboy
What's your reasoning behind using the ER adapter when you could use just the mt? I'm just curious as it seems a very common thing to do but seems counter to everything I knew, certainly if you don't change regularly?
I certainly do
As I mentioned , these mills are running production , some tools run longer than other but I use multiple tools and I'll do a lot of tool changes in a day . Constantly re-qualifying tools wouldn't be efficient and has other potential problems that may occur . I've got tools that were set months ago and the offsets are saved in the control , nothing changes and everything works as expected , plus tool changes are rapid , well , as rapid as they can get by hand .
As far as beating on the draw bar , it's not necessary to beat the living snot out of them , one good blow usually does it , my point was that the chances of them them working loose and or damaging the taper is slim to none and probably less so than any of the other tapers out there .
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