Collet maintenance is one of the most common causes of inadequate tool life or breakage. There are up to six links in the chain that comprise this critical tool-holding system, known as a collet.

A collet is a workholding device for bar stock or workpieces that must be held to a higher degree of accuracy than a standard chuck can accomplish. The device forms a collar around an object, and ...

Hardinge stocks standard headstock collets, extended-nose, emergency styles, pickoff collets and carbide guide bushings for Swiss turning. Producers of small precision parts — in medical or aerospace ...

Object Details Author Dunham Tool Company Notes Trade literature. Date 1965 Call number 006251 Type Books Trade catalogs Data Source Smithsonian Libraries Topic Collets ...