Originally Posted by Geof  How long have ATS and Royal had these dead length collets?
I had this style on my Herbert turret lathes but when I switched to CNC machines I searched around and couldn't find anything similar for CNC lathes; well I could, it was a German product I think that cost more than any of my machines at the time.
They really are good for second operations. |
I'm in year zero of my cnc lathe life so to me everything has been around "forever"
but you can take a look on royalprod.com I think the price for the royal are in the $3K range and $4K range for the AST, ast-s.com.