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Offline IanF

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New member with a BCA
« on: March 17, 2020, 11:27:25 PM »
Hi everyone

Just joined what looks to be an excellent community. I found the forum through internet searches on BCA jig borers as I was looking at purchasing one locally here in Australia. I am in the middle of getting the mark 3 into my shed and once I do I am sure I will have some questions that I hope some members can help me out with. Along with my Emco Maximat super 11 lathe I should be nicely set up to tinker with some small projects in my spare time.

Best wishes
Ian

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Re: New member with a BCA
« Reply #1 on: March 17, 2020, 11:55:21 PM »
Sounds like some fun stuff - lots of very helpful members here so I'm sure you can get some info. Love to see some photos of it. Welcome!

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Re: New member with a BCA
« Reply #2 on: March 18, 2020, 02:30:19 AM »
Thanks - once I get the BCA in place I will share some pics.

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Re: New member with a BCA
« Reply #3 on: March 18, 2020, 04:42:47 AM »
Welcome to the forum, Ian!
Kim

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Re: New member with a BCA
« Reply #4 on: March 18, 2020, 08:48:21 AM »
Welcome to the Forum  :ThumbsUp:  :ThumbsUp:
Best regards

Roger

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Re: New member with a BCA
« Reply #5 on: March 18, 2020, 09:45:39 AM »
Hi Ian
Welcome to the forum from a fellow BCA enthusiast, looking forward to seeing your pictures.
Andrew

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Re: New member with a BCA
« Reply #6 on: March 18, 2020, 10:34:19 AM »
Welcome from another BCA owner

Coin

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Re: New member with a BCA
« Reply #7 on: March 18, 2020, 12:57:16 PM »
yes, welcome, seems like there is a fair number of us here. 

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Re: New member with a BCA
« Reply #8 on: March 19, 2020, 09:22:53 PM »
Welcome to the forum, you'll find good people, with good info. The BCA is a nice little machine, I'm very happy with mine!!

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Re: New member with a BCA
« Reply #9 on: March 20, 2020, 06:54:24 AM »
Hi Ian,
Welcome to MEM from someone else in Oz, good luck with the projects. You have two very nice machines there - I really envy you the BCA!

David
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Offline IanF

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Re: New member with a BCA
« Reply #10 on: March 20, 2020, 08:28:50 PM »
Thanks David

The BCA arrived into my shed yesterday. I will get some time over the weekend to shuffle things around to make room and get it cleaned up a bit and hope to have it running by Sunday afternoon.

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Re: New member with a BCA
« Reply #11 on: March 21, 2020, 12:37:52 PM »
              Speaking of BCA machines, has anyone found a place to get collets, I could use a couple more!!

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Re: New member with a BCA
« Reply #12 on: March 21, 2020, 01:55:48 PM »
              Speaking of BCA machines, has anyone found a place to get collets, I could use a couple more!!

I've never heard of one.  It wouldn't be cheap, but someone could organize a group buy.  It probably wouldn't be too difficult to get 20 or so interested and get a quote from Derbyshire or Hardinge or others.  You would need imperial and metric (few metric cutters here) but wouldn't need that many collets to cover the common cutter dia's in its range.

I went a different route and built a new spindle with ER collets.

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Re: New member with a BCA
« Reply #13 on: March 21, 2020, 02:38:40 PM »
Tenga Engineering (www.tengamachinetools.com) supply the BCA. You can still buy sets of collets from them  :paranoia: about 5 years ago for the bargain price of £688 a set  :lolb:


An alternative is to buy some arbors from RDG and make something for yourself: https://www.rdgtools.co.uk/acatalog/Tools_for_the_BCA_Jig_borer.html or even make your own collets.

Jo

P.S. Pic of my BCA attached  ;)
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Re: New member with a BCA
« Reply #14 on: March 21, 2020, 05:32:27 PM »
Jo,

That looks good with the DRO attached.  Hopefully will get round to doing that one day in the future.

When I last spoke to the guys at Tenga (6 months or so ago) they intimated they would be retiring in the near future and shutting the business down.

Colin

 

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