where to get this chuck from?
where to get this chuck from?
(OP)
Hi,
I am trying to attach a square bar about 2 m long to a face plate at the root " fixed support". I need to reduce the deflection of this bar as much as i can as there is a distributed force applied close to the free end of the bar. I thought that using 4 jaw chuck would solve this issue, also i thought that the jaws should be long enough say 10 cm long to accommodate the bar root inside tightly. Also i need this chuck to be mounted in a rotary table to be able to change the angle of the bar. So i come up with the device in the attached photo. My question is:
Is there a similar piece that has 4 jaws instead of 3 and the jaws length is around 10 cm or closer and can accommodate 2 cm bar to 0.5 cm bar side length?
I appreciate your help
mopen
I am trying to attach a square bar about 2 m long to a face plate at the root " fixed support". I need to reduce the deflection of this bar as much as i can as there is a distributed force applied close to the free end of the bar. I thought that using 4 jaw chuck would solve this issue, also i thought that the jaws should be long enough say 10 cm long to accommodate the bar root inside tightly. Also i need this chuck to be mounted in a rotary table to be able to change the angle of the bar. So i come up with the device in the attached photo. My question is:
Is there a similar piece that has 4 jaws instead of 3 and the jaws length is around 10 cm or closer and can accommodate 2 cm bar to 0.5 cm bar side length?
I appreciate your help
mopen
RE: where to get this chuck from?
Timelord
RE: where to get this chuck from?
the point of using a chuck is that the gripping force of the jaws and the worm gear mechanism of the chuck allow appropriate alignment to the bar and strong support at the same time.
mopen
RE: where to get this chuck from?
RE: where to get this chuck from?
{ large "4-jaw" scroll chuck }
without the braces.
Common 4 jaw chucks have independent jaws so that one can chuck rectangular pieces.
A chuck that moves all jaws at once is a 'scroll chuck' or a 'self-centering' chuck; they are commonly made with three jaws, but four jaw versions are produced.
You may have to buy a chuck with demountable jaws, and make some extra long sub-jaws or grippers.
Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
RE: where to get this chuck from?
RE: where to get this chuck from?
That as Mike explained is the difference between a scroll chuck, and a 4 jaw independent chuck.
Here is a link to a 4 jaw scroll chuck.
B.E.
You are judged not by what you know, but by what you can do.
RE: where to get this chuck from?
BrianE22
The bar is rectangle of 2 *1.5 cm and the size goes down to 1*0.4 cm. I think square collets is good idea. But is there a collet with a flanged bottom so i can mount it to a face plate. Also , as i understand how it works is that the size of the collet centre should match the smallest bar size i am using. But by how much the bar size can get bigger to fit them in the collet?. Also how you increases the collet size, like what toll is used for this? Also can the collet accommodate a rectangular sections or just square?
Thanks
mopen
RE: where to get this chuck from?
http://www.hardingeus.com/index.asp?pageID=63&...
RE: where to get this chuck from?
a collet closer, and
a rotary table.
I don't think the most common collet series, 5C, can hold a rectangle quite that big. Larger collets exist, but are harder to find.
Typical collets have a grip length of only a cm or two. The length of your workpiece suggests you may be better off with a custom chuck, or a double collet and closer so you grip the bar in two places.
I suggest you prepare a nice drawing of your workpiece and whatever you want to affix the rotary table to, call Hardinge, and fax or email the drawing when you get a sales engineer on the line.
How fast you need to change the bar, how fast you're going to spin it, what you're going to do to the bar while it's held, and how much the bars vary in dimension, and how precisely you need them located, radially, angularly, and axially, will all affect the price of your fixture.
As Timelord said, a generic rotary table with crossed T-slots could serve as the substrate for a custom chuck/fixture made by a local machinist who can more easily gather and evaluate the sum total of your actual requirements, in person, than we here could do by continuing to interrogate you remotely.
Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
RE: where to get this chuck from?
RE: where to get this chuck from?
Actually this bar is gonna be used to mount an airfoil wing to a face-plate force transducer in a wind tunnel experiment. The bar will be a cantilever beam with free tip. and the wing will be mounted at the most top 50 cm length of the bar.I have tried a cylindrical aluminium bar which is attached to the force transducer through an adapter of flange with 5 cm protruding neck and i used set screw for tightening the bar inside the neck.The adapting piece is screwed to a rotary stage and the rotary stage is screwed to the force transducer through another adapting flange.
using this setup i got appreciable deflection of the bar at high wing'force. Also it was hard to align the bar vertically using set screws. This is why i thought of using a chuck/collet arrangement to fix the bar tightly and ensure vertical alignment at the same time.
Thank you
mopen
RE: where to get this chuck from?
It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.
RE: where to get this chuck from?
B.E.
You are judged not by what you know, but by what you can do.
RE: where to get this chuck from?
It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.
RE: where to get this chuck from?
RE: where to get this chuck from?
Yes i think now that using a chuck would be too much. But what is the alternative for this?
btrueblood
Yes you got it right, this is what i want to do. I used a cylindrical strut but it deflects significantly. I do not know if flutter is gonna be an issue,as i am doing the tests now on steady wind stream. I used a rotary-stage from edmund optics as my rotary table :
http://www.edmundoptics.com/optomechanics/position...
But i think it is not strong enough for holding the forces.
I am trying to draw the setup in solid works and attach it.
I appreciate any further suggestions about this wing attachment mechanism.
mopen
RE: where to get this chuck from?
Timelord
RE: where to get this chuck from?
Unbelievably handy piece of kit.
It was a sweet deal, as the kids of today (probably don't) say.
"I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go past." Douglas Adams
RE: where to get this chuck from?
RE: where to get this chuck from?
Timelord
RE: where to get this chuck from?
I attached the drawings of the assembly and the separate items.The forces are applied to the wing at the tip of the bar and concentrated at the mid-span of the wing. The maximum force should be about 50 N.
Timelord
Can you explain your point more? But can i use simple fixation instead of the chunk for this case? The rotary table should not exceed a diameter of 9 cm.
Thanks all
mopen
RE: where to get this chuck from?
RE: where to get this chuck from?
"I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go past." Douglas Adams
RE: where to get this chuck from?
Timelord
RE: where to get this chuck from?
The Amazon site I linked to show the 4 jaw self centering chuck, is now popping up at other places I visit.
Very annoying.
B.E.
You are judged not by what you know, but by what you can do.
RE: where to get this chuck from?
Timelord
A small rotary table is here http://www.warco.co.uk/rotary--compound-tables/134...
I think using rotary table is going to be heavy for my setup. So i am thinking to use rotary stage which is used for optical instruments mounting, even though it is not strong enough to carry appreciable load. The idea of collet fixation is good but the problem is that it is heavy and the size is big. So i thought that using a base clamp with adapting sleeves inserts would be better, something like what is shown here:
https://sdp-si.com/web/html/newprdshafts3.htm
http://www.kipp.com/App/WebObjects/XSeMIPSKIPP.woa...
does anybody knows how to get this from in Canada or at least North America?
mopen
RE: where to get this chuck from?
http://www.jwwinco.com/products/section16/#base-pl...
http://www.simplifiedbuilding.com/store/components...
Timelord
RE: where to get this chuck from?
Thanks for your interest.I found the base clamp on the first website and i contacted them to ask about slitted adapting square holed sleeves inserts, but they do not have.
i found a clamp like the following should be reasonable even i wish it has longer collar:
http://www.jwwinco.com/products/section16/gn162-ni...
any idea about a company in north america that sell sleeves like the following:
https://sdp-si.com/web/html/newprdshafts3.htm
or a company that sells both the clamp and the sleeves would be better!
mopen