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Thread: ER32 Collet Set
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20th November 2011, 11:00 AM #31Senior Member
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G'Day Fellas,
I agree with other posters that you can never have too many collets, when it comes to using them for work holding on the lathe I had MT4 ER 32 chuck and drawbar on my previous lathe and while it was terrific for holding small items, the lack of depth was a serious limitation. On my current lathe I use backplate mount ER32 chuck and find it far more useful, and being a totally unashamed tooling junkie I use a dedicated MT3 ER32 chuck in the tailstock for holding centre drills and reamers.
Regards,
Martin
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20th November 2011, 08:20 PM #32Product designer retired
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ER32 collet sets
Have a squize here, a bit more info already covered.
https://www.woodworkforums.com/f65/le...ollets-131616/
Ken
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24th November 2011, 08:40 AM #33Senior Member
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Originally Posted by simonl
If you don't mind me asking, do you have landing costs of the goods to hand? Would have thought 1 cubic metre minimum plus all the other BS at this end would blow sea out of the water (yuk,yuk!).
Guessing there's 8 or 9 kilo in the goods received. Most recent invoice here from that region, was just over 200, for 25kg....so curious how clearance, port fees, tax add up.
Bill.
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24th November 2011, 06:46 PM #34GOLD MEMBER
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Hi Bill,
I assume you are asking me about the mill not my collet set. Initially I allowed about $700 for landing charges. That being made up of Import duty (5%) GST (10%) and freight forwarding fees (about $300) with freight from Shanghai to Melbourne included in the cost price, but it looks like I have forgotten to add into the mix the "port handling fees" in Melbourne. This amounts to about another $350.
So, my milling machine will end up costing me about $3000 but when you look at what I got, it's still worth more than that. Also, included in that are 5 clamping sets. I obviously only wanted one clamping set but the minimum was 5 sets. So I bought:
2 x M12 Clamping sets,
2 x M14
1 x M16
At approximately $40 per set I am confident of at least recouperating that un-foreseen cost with these anyway. Last time I looked on ebay, M16 and M14 clamping kits were well over $100 each.
I did have the option of handling the freight forwarding myself. That would include registering with Customs and getting a client number which would allow me to fill out my own customs declaration and then pick up the freight directly from the sea cargo people. That would have saved me about $300. However as I have never done this before, i decided to get the professionals to do it. If I import some more stuff I may have a crack next time after I know a little more about the process.
So, overall I don't feel as though I'm worse off and I am definately better off for the experience. This statement obviously only holds true if the goods and not a pile of Junk. I am reasonably comfortable that this will not be the case as one other member on this forum has bought a similar mill from this company and they are very happy with it.
Cheers,
Simon
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25th November 2011, 06:36 AM #35Senior Member
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Oops, probably should have included the preamble Simon, this caught my eye....
Originally Posted by simonl
Possibly CTC consolidate loads or have some sort of arrangement with another importer that mitigate those costs?
Bill.
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25th November 2011, 07:28 AM #36GOLD MEMBER
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OK let then try to answer that again!
Total cost of my order was $199. Of which about $50 was shipping charges. I think it weighed about 10Kg or so. If I had have paid full shipping costs via air I think it would have been about $75. So I saved about $25. Not much but hey I don't even have my mill yet so why not save the money.
Cheers,
Simon
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26th November 2011, 07:22 AM #37Senior Member
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Appears they must have something in place.
Although there were ridiculously cheap full container prices a few years back of about $750 to here, can't imagine an agent lifting a pen to do the paperwork for $50 nowadays for a one-off, even if the container space was next to nothing.
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26th November 2011, 08:38 AM #38GOLD MEMBER
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It's funny how the shipping for my mill was $50. That's for a 450Kg crate that's 1.5 cubic metres. yet the port charges and freight forwarding fees are hundreds $
Simon
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26th November 2011, 11:39 AM #39Mechanical Butcher
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I put it down to stevedores having hundreds of years of practice to work out their scams.
Air freight is more expensive, but the processing costs once landed here are much less than by sea in my experience.
I avoid buying anything that can't go via normal post service now.
Jordan
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