cnc_works
09-07-2007, 12:37 PM
When I bought my spindle, the mfr said I should always use the best quality, balanced nuts & collets.
If this is for spindle life, than it is a no-brainer. But if it is for quality of cut, I can hardly imagine almost any set purchased with common sense (no $10 sets) would be fine on a cnc router. On a machine tool I would suspect buying the best might be better advice.
I just bought a spindle for my smaller CNC and don't particularly want to share nuts and collets between them, not even the back and forth of collet wrenches. So I'm looking at several more nuts and collets as I'd like to keep each collet in its own nut.
I ask the question because I see pretty good deals on ebay, but they are really unspecced.
So, any feedback would be appreciated.
Donn
If this is for spindle life, than it is a no-brainer. But if it is for quality of cut, I can hardly imagine almost any set purchased with common sense (no $10 sets) would be fine on a cnc router. On a machine tool I would suspect buying the best might be better advice.
I just bought a spindle for my smaller CNC and don't particularly want to share nuts and collets between them, not even the back and forth of collet wrenches. So I'm looking at several more nuts and collets as I'd like to keep each collet in its own nut.
I ask the question because I see pretty good deals on ebay, but they are really unspecced.
So, any feedback would be appreciated.
Donn