Axminster Compression mandrel - Review

[PhillH]

Well not a review as such......but

Picked one up this morning and I have to say I'm impressed with it.

Well engineered piece of kit, much easier / nicer to use than the threaded nut style and adjusting between sizes of blank is a breeze.

For those who are curious the shaft is 0.242" dia and my collection of bushes all fit OK. Fit into the "saver" centre is superb.

I needed a new shaft and would have bought a saver anyway, so this represented a good buy having bent my mandrel.

All round it gets my vote.

 

[Buckeye]

Is the shaft replaceable?

Peter

 

[PhillH]

Is the shaft replaceable?

Peter

Yes. Held with a couple of grubscrews.

 

[Buckeye]

Thanks, I might have to look at one, in store.

Peter

 

[Terry]

No more bent pens then Phill more so with that new camera of yours !!!! lol

 

[Jim]

I may just invest in one of these Phill, thanks again for the heads up on this kit ..

 

[paulm]

Thanks Phil, I might get one when mine needs replacing too.

 

[paulm]

right... I've been working (well in theory) since the crack of sparrow fart this morning so need to go and get a shower... its pub o clock....

If only this damn script would finish.

 

[chas_41_uk]

good useful review Phil

 

[wm460]

They look a well made piece of equipment, The grubscrew rings a bell somewhere, I seem to remember in a pommy magazine an article maybe by Walter that the grub screw can make the mandrel go of centre.