Thread: Source for single 5C collets?

Mike,

If you had the luxury of time you could pick up a Hardinge 5C collet on American Ebay for very little. Shipping time might knock that idea on the head even if you were prepared to wait beyond the weekend.

Have you tried K2 in Malaga or High Speed Tooling in Belmont? Fiora Machinery sell H and F products. They might sell one collet.

BT

McJing tools (mcjing.com.au). They're in sydney but ship same day express, I typically get my orders (in brissy) next or 2nd day.

They sell for $30 each, both imperial and metric sizes listed.

McJING Tools Online

Certainly cheaper in sets from CDCO, even allowing for postage

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I got* eight Hardinge 5C's for less than $40 a few weeks ago.

*bought I mean. They are still in the morass that the USPS has become.

Gregory,

What are you using the 5Cs in?

I've been tempted a number of times to buy a Hardinge HV-4 or even an H4 indexer but they are usually beat up and usually expensive. It also means another prolonged search for collets. Hardinge made quite an array of 5C variations. Still, it would be a less daunting and less expensive task than my pursuit of W-20 collets.

BT

Bob, I need them for that Darex E-90 type grinder that I mentioned a while back. (It only came with a single 1/2"). Onlineseller has a 5C:ER32 chuck which I will buy to save having a crazy number of 5C's kicking around for the few off-size endmills I own.

I have always fancied a Hardinge Indexer too, until I read on one of the archived threads that they were never made at Hardinge but contracted out. Apparently they were a source of embarrassment for Hardinge reps...indifferently made, not at all what you'd expect with that name. I read that the Phase II are in fact better and the Japanese ones are the best.

Greg