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Jeff Vanden Boogart WR Addict Offline WR Rocks! Posts: 921 Rural Green Bay Wisconsin USA Gender: PM 3520	Made some collet handles! Jul 3^rd, 2018 at 3:56pm Actually went crazy with it...LOL
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Jeff Vanden Boogart WR Addict Offline WR Rocks! Posts: 921 Rural Green Bay Wisconsin USA Gender: PM 3520	Re: Made some collet handles! Reply #1 - Jul 3^rd, 2018 at 3:59pm Couldn't upload four pics
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Chris Neilan WR Addict Offline OUCH! Posts: 999 Waterford Connecticut USA Gender: Powermatic 3520 Delta 46-460 Shopsmith 10 ER Shopsmith Mark V Shopsmith Mark 7 Powerpro	Re: Made some collet handles! Reply #2 - Jul 3^rd, 2018 at 7:03pm And... you are going to share your recipie, right???
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Jeff Vanden Boogart WR Addict Offline WR Rocks! Posts: 921 Rural Green Bay Wisconsin USA Gender: PM 3520	Re: Made some collet handles! Reply #3 - Jul 3^rd, 2018 at 9:34pm Gladly, Chris! What details would you like. Not terribly difficult if you have a metal lathe.
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Don Stephan WR Addict Offline WR Rocks! Posts: 2,659 Cincinnati, Ohio Ohio USA Gender:	Re: Made some collet handles! Reply #4 - Jul 4^th, 2018 at 11:14am In prior thread I learned about collet chucks, but not handles. What's the intended use? Is every one a different collet size?
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Jeff Vanden Boogart WR Addict Offline WR Rocks! Posts: 921 Rural Green Bay Wisconsin USA Gender: PM 3520	Re: Made some collet handles! Reply #5 - Jul 4^th, 2018 at 1:33pm Don, it makes it simple to remove the tool for sharpening...I like that quite a bit. The handles take ER-20 collets which go up to 19mm (5/8"). I've got 5/8" collets in all of them, and 5/8" shanks on most of my tools. I can stick any tool in any handle without any fuss.
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Don Stephan WR Addict Offline WR Rocks! Posts: 2,659 Cincinnati, Ohio Ohio USA Gender:	Re: Made some collet handles! Reply #6 - Jul 4^th, 2018 at 3:42pm Now I understand. I would be in too much of a hurry to bother to unhandle a tool for sharpening, using a Robo Rest have sharpened gouges to within 1 1/4" of the handle end of the flute.
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Wil Russell Active Member Offline WR Rocks! Posts: 190 Axminster AT1416VS	Re: Made some collet handles! Reply #7 - Jul 12^th, 2018 at 3:55am Nice handles Jeff. I’ve made a few “quick and dirty” versions by using cheap collet chucks from China secured in some alloy tube and covered in plastic pipe.
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Re: Made some collet handles!
Reply #8 - Jul 12^th, 2018 at 11:00am

Thanks, Wil. I thought about buying cheap collet chucks too...certainly easier than making them! I wanted to keep the size of the "nut" minimal and still have a 5/8" capacity..that would mean using ER-25 collets. Everything I could find in ER-25 size, the through hole in the chuck itself was smaller than 5/8"...not what I wanted.

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Wil Russell Active Member Offline WR Rocks! Posts: 190 Axminster AT1416VS	Re: Made some collet handles! Reply #9 - Jul 12^th, 2018 at 11:21am Yeah, I know what you mean Jeff. I’ve limited myself to using a 1/2” shaft but even so I still need to open out the hole in the ER20 chuck body as it only has a 10mm through hole. I open them up to 13mm using a glass drill as the steel is quite hard.
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