Anybody need a bunch of 1A Collets? (2025 Update)

On 1/28/2020 5:10 PM, Gunner Asch wrote: >

I have two small lathes with 3C adapters in the spindles. I would be interested if I knew for sure they would fit up nice in a 3C taper, but historically you've been unreliable for me both before and after your stroke. Let us know if you put them on Ebay, and I may bid on them, but I'm not going to do a private party deal.

Here is a forum discussion where they talk about them.

My first lathe was a Craftsman, came with, believe it or not, a Royal collet closer, nose piece, and a couple collets. Got a small lot production job and needed a 3/8 collet, cost me some $48 best I recall, this was nearly 30 years ago. $10 for the lot? Screaming bargain!

Jon

Imagine that. That's because you have said you would do things several times and NEVER followed through. Hard to do business with somebody who never follows through.

On 1/29/2020 8:43 AM, Bob La Londe wrote: >

Ok... last chance. Email pictures of collets and other hardware you want an offer on to alarm(underscore)wizard(at)hotmail(dot)com

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This will be number 5 (that I can recall).

I do not promise to make an offer or that if I do it won't be low, but if you follow through this time you will be upgrade from wishing well to slot machine in my estimation.

Yep. EBay will take care of him for you... They stopped allowing sellers to mess with buyers many years ago. Nowadays it's easy being a buyer on eBay. I will be surprised if he even "slides" them onto eBay.

Whatever, good luck.

On 1/29/2020 12:28 PM, Gunner Asch wrote: > On Wed, 29 Jan 2020 08:43:04 -0700, Bob La Londe snipped-for-privacy@none.com > wrote: >

I could, but its not worth MY time since I wasn't worth your time. Now is your chance to follow through and upgrade my opinion though.

On 1/29/2020 1:55 PM, Gunner Asch wrote: > On Wed, 29 Jan 2020 12:51:30 -0700, Bob La Londe snipped-for-privacy@none.com > wrote: >

You are wrong. Perhaps even being deliberately deceitful in your attempt to redirect. I remember exactly each time of those I counted. A couple were small. One was a "favor" (that I would have to pay for if you actually did it), and the first was a true sounding favor. The FACT is you came through on none of them. Favor or cash you didn't do what you said. I even have your phone number still stored on my phone from one of those times you failed to do what you said. We have spoken on the phone before about one of them.

I could list out and detail each instance, but then you would try and rebut them and it would certainly get nasty. You can act better or not. Its your choice.

So are you going to escalate this to insults and threats like you have with others in the past, or are you going to actually do what you said for once?

If you choose the former that would be disappointing, but if you bother to look you may even have my address in your old emails. If you choose the later then good for you. That would be a notable improvement over past behavior.

Sincerely, Bob La Londe Yuma, Az

On 1/29/2020 5:16 PM, Gunner Asch wrote: > On Wed, 29 Jan 2020 14:43:07 -0800, Gunner Asch snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com > wrote: >

If they are the lot in the red plastic bin... $100 for the lot plus shipping. Dirt, rust, and all. Don't want the closer. If you accept you can send a PayPal invoice to the address I posted earlier.

I have a limited set of 3C already, but I have two lathes where I use them. Sometimes I need the same size in both lathes, so duplicates are useful. I run into the same thing with my 5C stuff with a couple collet blocks and a couple spindexers. My offer is for the lot. If there are

That remains to be seen.

Not interested in the closer. Its an offer. No is a perfectly acceptable response.

About $2...ayup. Probably.

I went through bins and came across a bunch of them..probably 50-75 I still haven't really counted them yet.

Gunner __

"Journalists are extremely rare and shouldn’t be harmed, but propagandists are everywhere and should be hunted for sport"

Yeah..with no bag limit.

Absolutely understood. It is an offer. One Im going to ponder on for a bit.

My offer was "as is" for the lot. Just dump them in a box and ship them. After you have gone through them, sorted them, cleaned them, and/or determined if they are garbage my offer is defunct. I am willing to gamble $100 plus shipping on an unknown lot of collets. I am not willing to throw away $100 on a lot of collets you may have determined aren't worth $100 plus shipping. You can think about it, but once you have started cleaning, sorting, or evaluating you have rejected the "as is" portion of the offer therefor rejecting the offer.

This is my current offer.

If I wanted to pay retail for them I would pay retail, or for $109 dollars I can get another import set of 3C like the one I have already, which turned out to be quite good.

Sheesh, If I open bids on an item at $10 and got $100, I would be thrilled. Now your pondering the price. btw, I was leaning on your side on the poor follow up accusations, now I wonder. Mikek

Lack of follow through again. Not because you didn't actually post a picture of your pile of dirt and rust covered "Hardinge" collets, but because you didn't bother to respond even though you clearly indicted you wanted to think it over. More than one time implying it was a possibility you might accept. I was left wondering whether you would accept or not. Instead I found it in a different branch of the conversation in a reply to somebody else entirely. Purely by luck.

So this tells me that while you will follow through eventually if publicly shamed for your past behavior... not really. You didn't even have the courtesy to say, "no thank you."

I'm sure you will have some excuse or some left handed insulting way of responding. Enjoy yourself. I just want to thank you for your time. Here's hoping you have a great rest of your day.

I sold three Harleys on Ebay in a week for a net of about $34K and thousands of dollars worth of Harley parts around that same time period. So what. I've got 100% feeback on Ebay as well. Doesn't mean a thing the way Ebay has bastardized and broken the feedback system. I'd rather have a negative from a troll than see the system made 100% meaningless the way it is today.

I chose to believe you were just extremely forgetful or indifferent about doing what you say in the past, but this thread has lead me to think there is a possibility you are also a liar.

You said you would do something for me. Actually you offered right here on Usenet. Totally a favor when I was just starting in machining, but YOU OFFERED. You didn't do it. I actually mentioned it years ago, and it turned out you had a stroke. I felt bad and let it drop at the time. Now it was a favor or an awfully nice gesture, but the fact is you didn't do what you said you would do.

You said you would meet me to look at a machine if I paid for your fuel and bought you lunch. I told you in advance when I would be there and called you on the phone when I was headed out which was when you said you decided to do something else that day. Sure its not what you get paid to fix a machine, but YOU OFFERED. I didn't ask you to. The fact is you didn't do what you said you would do.

Twice you have said you have a bunch of something I needed and to just email you a list of what I need and you would give me a price. I did email you, and took the time to put together a list. You never followed through. The fact is you didn't do what you said you would do.

This time you didn't have the common courtesy to just say no thank you. A much smaller thing so it doesn't actually qualify as not doing what you said you would do, but in light of your history does nothing to make you look any better.

There are several smaller things as well. One might accuse me of holding a grudge. No, but I don't forget either. I know you are unreliable.

I am sure you have excuses, but the fact is when it comes to follow through with me you just didn't do what you said you would do. Maybe you still have memory issues from your stroke. Maybe its you not giving a s*it. Regardless you are proven to be unreliable by your own lack of doing what you say you will do.

Post your collets on Ebay all cleaned up with nice pictures and sorted with detailed information and all the bad ones thrown out. I might bid on them. I might not.

Repeated So you don't miss it:

I chose to believe you were just extremely forgetful or indifferent about doing what you say in the past, but this thread has lead me to think there is a possibility you are also a liar.

You said you would do something for me. Actually you offered right here on Usenet. Totally a favor when I was just starting in machining, but YOU OFFERED. You didn't do it. I actually mentioned it years ago, and it turned out you had a stroke. I felt bad and let it drop at the time. Now it was a favor or an awfully nice gesture, but the fact is you didn't do what you said you would do.

You said you would meet me to look at a machine if I paid for your fuel and bought you lunch. I told you in advance when I would be there and called you on the phone when I was headed out which was when you said you decided to do something else that day. Sure its not what you get paid to fix a machine, but YOU OFFERED. I didn't ask you to. The fact is you didn't do what you said you would do.

Twice you have said you have a bunch of something I needed and to just email you a list of what I need and you would give me a price. I did email you, and took the time to put together a list. You never followed through. The fact is you didn't do what you said you would do.

This time you didn't have the common courtesy to just say no thank you. A much smaller thing so it doesn't actually qualify as not doing what you said you would do, but in light of your history does nothing to make you look any better.

There are several smaller things as well. One might accuse me of holding a grudge. No, but I don't forget either. I know you are unreliable.

I am sure you have excuses, but the fact is when it comes to follow through with me you just didn't do what you said you would do. Maybe you still have memory issues from your stroke. Maybe its you not giving a s*it. Regardless you are proven to be unreliable by your own lack of doing what you say you will do.

Post your collets on Ebay all cleaned up with nice pictures and sorted with detailed information and all the bad ones thrown out. I might bid on them. I might not.

One more time:

I chose to believe you were just extremely forgetful or indifferent about doing what you say in the past, but this thread has lead me to think there is a possibility you are also a liar.

You said you would do something for me. Actually you offered right here on Usenet. Totally a favor when I was just starting in machining, but YOU OFFERED. You didn't do it. I actually mentioned it years ago, and it turned out you had a stroke. I felt bad and let it drop at the time. Now it was a favor or an awfully nice gesture, but the fact is you didn't do what you said you would do.

You said you would meet me to look at a machine if I paid for your fuel and bought you lunch. I told you in advance when I would be there and called you on the phone when I was headed out which was when you said you decided to do something else that day. Sure its not what you get paid to fix a machine, but YOU OFFERED. I didn't ask you to. The fact is you didn't do what you said you would do.

Twice you have said you have a bunch of something I needed and to just email you a list of what I need and you would give me a price. I did email you, and took the time to put together a list. You never followed through. The fact is you didn't do what you said you would do.

This time you didn't have the common courtesy to just say no thank you. A much smaller thing so it doesn't actually qualify as not doing what you said you would do, but in light of your history does nothing to make you look any better.

There are several smaller things as well. One might accuse me of holding a grudge. No, but I don't forget either. I know you are unreliable.

I am sure you have excuses, but the fact is when it comes to follow through with me you just didn't do what you said you would do. Maybe you still have memory issues from your stroke. Maybe its you not giving a s*it. Regardless you are proven to be unreliable by your own lack of doing what you say you will do.

Post your collets on Ebay all cleaned up with nice pictures and sorted with detailed information and all the bad ones thrown out. I might bid on them. I might not.