found a burnerd multi collet set at a tag sale

I've recently seen a posted new price of $169.00 *each* (IIRC) for the collets. :-) No clue what the closer costs. It sounds as though you got a deal. Since you have a lathe with 1-1/2x8 spindle thread, see about mounting it and trying it out. It will give you almost all the range that a 5C collet set would, and I think that this has the lever on the workpiece end of the headstock, so you can feed through the spindle the full ID of the spindle -- nothing taken up by a drawbar.

They are supposed to be really nice, but I've never seen one in person. If they are as nice as I've been led to believe, you will probably want to find a replacement for that one broken collet.

Enjoy, DoN.

You are correct the lever is on the face of the head stock so you have the full diameter of the spindle. after some cleaning it threads all the way down, tight but smooth. It uses 8 collets to spam 1/8 to 1".

I have a burnerd collect chuck for my rockwell that goes up to 1.5 inchs using EC collets. I bought some other collets on ebay that looked like these in the photo but they are EB collets and they only go up to 1 inch. So my question is: What series do you have??? After receiving the smaller set of collets, I called burnerd and they told me they use to make chucks for them but not anymore. They did tell me that the collets are still made and used in the glass industry. I would love to find a chuck that would work on my Myford S7.

chuck

My rockwell has L00. Myford has a puny oddball threaded spindle. I would make a backplate if I could find a nice burnerd collet chuck for it.

Pretty sure EC is the current series and can even be bought from MSC. I have seen a collet that looked a lot like the EC series . I think it was an MC. It was a different color, had a bigger nose and I think it had more fingers too. I heard there were pretty much interchangable if you modified the collet chuck.

chuck