Every so often I am asked if we offer our expanding collets with a rubber seal that fits into the slots. The purpose for this would be to eliminate chips from getting into the slots. Metal chips, in some instances, can get stuck in the slots of the expanding collet. This can possibly prevent the…
I get a few phone calls from customers every year regarding breakage issues with our Expanding Collets or the collet growing to the point that you can no longer get the part on the collet. Read on for a couple of simple solutions to these two problems. Let’s begin with the breaking problem: 99.9% of…
My customer, Michael, called the other day regarding an issue with runout of a collet on a lathe. He explained to me that he was using an expanding collet on a pullback style collet chuck, but was unable to get the collet to run true. After going over all the steps on how to properly…
