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Re: Unimat watchmakers drawbar


 

With the spindle and a collet or two, you should be able to make your own drawings...? ?This link has a good photo of a watchmaker's collet:?? Says the thread is M7 x 0.75mm and you'd need to figure out how long the threaded section is, diameter of the collet at various locations along it's length, and the taper angle... Also the length of the spindle,? It's gonna be fiddley work, but doable. If you have a collet of your own to compare, you can get those numbers from your collet, no matter what diameter stock it's made for. Here's an example from AliExpress:??to look at. It's a hollow tube with internal threads at the business end. Yours wouldn't have to be an exact copy of that one. A couple of WW drawbars on ebay here:??I searched with Unimat as the first term, but didn't get anything specific to the Unimat. M7 x 0.75 taps and dies on ebay:?? just in case...

And here is a spindle with drawbar on ebay.ca, with photos you can download to help you figure it out!?

If nothing else, figuring it out will keep you busy and out of the bars for at least a few days! ;) I didn't save the link, but I saw a set of 20 8mm watchmaker's collets for under $20 on Banggood or AliExpress. Not betting they're any good, but they could be...

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On Tuesday, May 2, 2023 at 07:52:05 AM CDT, Ruben <groen.drenthe@...> wrote:


I have the watchmakers spindle here without drawbar.
Is here some one who want to share the dimensions of rhe drawbar or has a drawing?
in the files section is nothing useful to find about this part

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