I can't afford Hardinge or Royal but wanted to stay away from the chinese cheapo ones so I bought a set of Lyndex 5C collets, thinking the quality would be somewhere in the middle. Unfortunately, the Lyndex collets thread too tightly on my collet closer (a Royal brand one) while every other collet I have (Hardinge, South Bend) threads on fine, so the problem is the collets, not the closer. Snooping around the web I've found others having problems with the Lyndex collets having oversize threads. On top of that, the 1" Lyndex collet showed 0.0017" runout, while the Hardinge one showed
0.0005". So the Lyndex collets are being returned. Does anyone know of "mid" priced 5C collets that are good quality, or at least a source for import sets that aren't too bad?Are the Enco brand ones they sell ok or junk?
I've heard good comments about Bison collets but I don't see them sold by any of the tool discounters, does anyone know where the Bison collets can be purchased for reasonable prices?
Thanks,
Paul T.