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High speed carvers/Dental style handpiece

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Gene Kelly

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Hello!
I have been doing a lot of pierced carving on my pieces and am using a Power Carver 400. I am looking into an NSK style dental handpiece and the ones that I am finding are meant for dentists, meaning that they have connections for dental equipment. The difference being that my Power Carver handpiece has just one air connection to power it but, the dental style has four connectors. I am guessing that one may be an air inlet, one an air exhaust and the other might be used for spraying water. I am trying to determine if it is feasible to connect the four hole style to my system.

Does anyone have any information about this?

Thanks,

Gene Kelly
 
Gene, I started piercing with a dental style high speed hand piece, and then switched to the NSK straight style hand piece used by many piercers and the one Binh uses. The dental handpieces will be less expensive, but I'd recommend using the straight style. The NSK Presto is quieter, has more torque and does not need oiling.
 
Thanks Bill, I have been to Binh Pho's site and I don't see anything about making those connections there. It may be on his DVD.

Hal, I am already using a straight handpiece and am looking for the option of an angled handpiece for those hard to get at places. I have found some "hard to turn down" deals on Ebay but they are not such a good deal if I am unable to connect them.
 
I use the straight NSK Presto as well and bought it used on eBay. When I was looking, I found two models, one that had a water connection and one that didn't (bought the latter). I have only pierced through the outside of my various pieces and never found an area that I couldn't pierce with it. Now carving delicate folds and such might present an issue.... don't know.

I talked to Bin while at SWAT this year and we was working on a few pieces at a booth using the same straight handpiece I have. (and thankfully he was selling tapered fissure bits!!).
 
Gene, the dental hand piece I had had four connections as well, but I had an interface that screwed in that had one inlet for the air connection. I bought it from a dentist/turner so he knew what needed to be done. I second getting in touch with Brian McEvoy who sells the dental style hand piece.
 
dental handpiece

I have a 4 port dental handpiece that I got as a backup. After experimenting a whole I discovered that all I needed to do was hook up to the large inlet. the others are for water, which we have plenty of in Colorado right now,and an outlet.
 
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