FWIW, I've been participating in NG for ~12 years. Finding ideas is one use. I also see them as way to prevent myself from "reinventing the wheel". I can modify or use an existing "wheel". There is no way you can convince me that you never do the same. I also use NGs to help others when I'm able. I provide PROVEN methods as well as possible alternatives.
I actually have a fair amount of experience with Erickson and other DA collets. My experience told me your suggestion actually had a very LOW probability of working. Hence, my original "thanks" and gentle reminder that I was using small wire. See my response to your first post.
You then pushed on about a variety of collet sizes and finally: "Erickson makes a 1/32 collet and they claim a full 1/32 range for each collet so I'm reasonably sure it will go down to .010 Look up Erickson DA300 series collets."
My experience again tells me that a 1/32 collet does NOT have a 1/32 range. Think about it. If it actually closed to zero, you'd have knife edges that matched perfectly in the middle. Your quote is stated as fact while giving yourself the ability to shift blame to Erickson for mis-stating their capabilities ("...they claim...").
Well, to double check myself and you, I did do online research and couldn't find a 1/32 collet with 1/32 range. You can get a 1/16 collet with 1/32 range thus having a min. capacity of 1/32. ...Long ways from .010"
I did and all was good until you perceived me to have a poor attitude. I'm not thin skinned and can take a lot of crap, righteous or not. Perhaps I was in a poor mood that night, but I got a bit pieved when you had the audacity to insult me, then tell me as fact a bunch of specs that I highly suspected to be wrong and (wasted my time) investigating.
Your perspective is wrong. Again, you made the above quote as fact ("Erickson makes..."). You then implied that you had a 1/32 collet ("If you were not behaving like a jerk, I would actually pull my set out and try it.") I am DEFYING you to prove yourself right.
I will not be ordering a collet and nut set up for this fixture. If you read one of my first post in this thread, you'll see that this is a production fixture and I already said a nut/spanner type holder is too slow and awkward.
My "specs" to which I asked you to test are not unreasonable. I just want to be sure you are complying to the "spirit" of the test and not just achieving positive results by testing to the "letter" of the test.
But fine, don't provide me with a part number, just try it and tell this NG whether or not you did it. And when you are unable, use that as a lesson to remind yourself that perhaps YOU should check out your "facts" before spewing them forth as gospel. You can also use the result as a reminder on how you should determine "high probability of working" without performing any analysis, statistical or otherwise.
I can't. I AM the consultant. However, I did try to "hire" you. Your payment was to be an apology. Apparently, that wasn't enough though.