Hi, I'm Mike Corliss from Tormach. And today I'm going to show you 5C Collets...
...and some of the workholding accessories that go with it.
Here's just a standard 5C Collet.
It's a 5/8th round collet.
There's square collets.
It's a 1/2 square.
5/16's square. There's hex collets.
And these come in a full range of sizes. They're offered in kits.
So you can get the collets individually or you can get the whole set.
And then, there's an emergency collet.
You'll see it comes with the dowel pins, you'll chuck on it,
clamp it and them machine out any pattern you want....
...if you had some oddball round size. If you had a contoured parts that you wanted to clamp on.
And this is made out of brass so it won't mar up...
if you have finished surfaces. This is the square black.
It just slips in here.
And if you'll notice. here's the locating key.
It locates off the key on all of them.
You can have it either dialed down so it locates off the key.
or if you are trying to dial in, you know if you wanted...
...a piece of square stock, and you wanted to indicate it in...
...you can take it out so you can manipulate the collet around, so you can get it perfectly square...
...with the outside edges.
...or off 45 degrees, however you wanted to indicate it in.
if you have a key in, then it's only going to locate off the key.
Then we've got the square one.
Pop that in. These are the nuts, it's either...
...this one and then that tightens with a spanner wrench.
So if you were doing,
like a bunch of parts and it wasn't very heavy machining on them,
you can use as quick change nut.
And then that's got a little cam action that when you lock it...
you pull the handle out, it pulls the collet back in.
If you are doing multiple parts, you can have it sit in the vise.
Just cam the lock.
You can have it sit at an angle. It's handy.
It doesn't seem to hold as tight as the spanner nuts, but if you're not machining very heavy...
...then they work great, they're quick.
I'll just put this piece in.
Now, if you had your vise in the mill...
...you can lay it down.
You can machine on this side, you can flip it ninety degrees, you know everything would be oriented.
You can also stand these up.
You can set a pair of parallels down. It's just coming off the nut.
So depending on how accurate your workpiece needs to be...
you may want to run an indicator up the side to make sure it's in there true.
but then you've got it in there, you can hold a piece of round stock...
...or whatever other collet you are using.
and then you can machine on the ends too.
And the same goes with the hex one.
Either you hold it on end or you can lay it down,
and then rotate it sixty degrees. Same with this..
...stop or the locating key, take it out...
...otherwise it's going to be sticking out.
And this is a collet stop.
It's got a jam nut on there. What you do is...
...jam these into the backside of the collets.
Tighten this nut.
Then you can set your workpiece against the face of the nut.
Adjust it for however you need it sticking out of the collet.
And then tighten the jam nut.
Now if you have multiple pieces, or id you have something you are afraid is going to push into the collet.
...it won't slide then or you can repeat if you have multiple pieces.
And then this is a spin fixture.
Slide the collet in. It has a locating key.
And then tighten it with the handle back here.
See the graduations. Right now it's on zero.
This pin sets the rotation. If you leave it at zero,
if you rotate one degree
It has 35 divisions. Ten degrees each.
So if you needed it at 0 degrees, if you needed one degree...
...put the pin in and then rotate it until it falls into place.
Five degrees, that's five. 15 degrees
and such.
You can machine out here and then you can rotate your part...
...for whatever angle you need.
and then set the pin in.
If you've got some fussy flats or holes. And then this is the tail stock. It's more work support.
And then these you're going to hold down in the mill.
They've got flat bottoms. Put a clamp on them. These are also very handy...
...with surface grinders.
And then you can use the spin function.
Put something in here and then you can spin it.
Grind it around.
It thinks that's the gist of it man.