Cheap Ebay Collet Chuck Is Actually Pretty Good

G'day everyone,

I spoke recently in the mill unboxing video (   • I Bought A Mini Mill - Unboxing, Over...  ) I spoke about the advantage of having tooling that can be interchangeably swapped between my various machines. Incidentally since I needed a collet chuck to hold my end mills in the mill, I was interested to see how the collet chuck would fair in the sieg c3 mini lathe.

This style of collet chuck is not optimal for work holding in a lathe, and the quality of the chuck is questionable since it was a budget opting that I purchased from Ebay, but I was optimistic that the I could get some good results from it.

Cheers

Timestamps
0:00 - Ebay Collet Chuck
0:57 - Making The Drawbar
4:04 - Observations
5:28 - Testing

#machining #minilathe