Deckel boy`s lucky day!

Hi All,

Despite rumours to the contrary FP1 owners that should have forked out on an FP2 do sometimes have good luck.

Recently I attended an auction at my friendly machine tool dealers premises at Ski near Oslo and bid on some shelving, winning several lots at 50 NOK a time.
A few days later, I had to go and dismantle some of it so that I could transport it to my workshop. What a filthy and time consuming job it was as the shelves had been screwed together using countersunk screws which were almost impossible to access and the shelves were covered in a layer of oil and dust.

Then I was offered a range of unsold shelving much larger than my original purchase free of charge but this also had to be dismantled and taken away.

Then I was shown a small table that had some newly found tools on it that had not been offered at the auction. there was a set of four collets in a wooden box which upon closer examination were 4mt and had the Deckel buttress thread for the drawbar as seen in the enclosed photos. The make is "Franken" and when I had cleaned off the label I saw that they were intended for the FP1. Collet sizes are: 6, 10, 12 and 16 mm.



There was a large box of milling cutters, a Nisshin Sangyo centering gauge, a Mahr lever type dial indicator an unusual type of precision magnetic vice of unknown origin and an unusual drill like boring bar with a radially adjustable tool marked 22MM.

They were all offered to me at a bulk purchase price of 500 NOK (about 40 GBP) which I accepted without bothering to hagle.

Of course there was an element of risk involved which was reflected in the price but when I got the items back to the workshop they all worked as they should, so this was my lucky day.

I`m assuming that this type of deckel collet is for holding cutters?

Alan

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