Chinese Spindles

[i2i]

got the spindles back from the grinder and a bt30 hoder rings quite well into them. I'm in two minds now whether to leave the motor/pulley arrangement as is (bridgeport), or remove the pulley section and mount the motor directly on top of the spindle with a drawbar through the motor.

[i2i]

Well I got there in the end but via a different route. I ended up buying two HSD router spindles which have a 30 taper and air powered atc. They are 6.8kw and 24000 rpm, and should have a fair bit of power run at slower speeds.

[Jonathan]

Both of these I presume?

[i2i]

yes, both of those. I looked at a 10kw one locally and as it was 380v only I decided not to go for it, which after the auction had finished I regretted not getting it. Then those two appeared so it had to be.