I'm building a 5C collet chuck for my little Sherline lathe. For you lucky folks with big iron that already use 5C collets, this question: if you meaure run out on a 1/2" piece of drill rod held in the collet, what do you expect to read 3" away from the collet? I'm tryng to figure out when I'll be "done" tweaking my chuck. If when I've machined it properly I should get 1/2 mil at the collet and 1/2 mil 3" away, then I have some error I still need to find and correct.
I have cheap-o Enco collets; perhaps I can't expect great accuracy out of them?
Thanks guys,
I have cheap-o Enco collets; perhaps I can't expect great accuracy out of them?
Thanks guys,
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