re: Collet Holder aand Storage Box

Thank you all for all the nice comments. I make most of my stuff out of necessity and I make it to last. When you go from a tool room, where you have some of the best equipment ,to your own shop, there is a big drop in capability and accuracy that you are used to. Slowly I'm adding more stuff to improve the capability and accuracy without going broke doing it.

Hi Larry. I have a machinist tool box full of precision tools I made in the shop. I worked nights for a lot of years and always had 2 or 3 machines running at the same time- one for the company job and 2 for my "government" work. There were just 2 of us on at night and we both made personal tools all the time...and I was the heat treat guy at night so everything was hardened and ground!! I'll post a few more of them some time! Lumberjocks was just wood stuff so they never got posted there!

Hi Ryan. I have set of R8 collets for my mill but they are a lot cheaper to buy than those 2 J collets and they don't go up to 1 1/2". When I got out of the shop and into Quality Assurance I knew I'd need some machine tools at home since I did not have access to them at work. I bought a mill and a metal lathe and use them all the time.