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  • Little Machine Shop also sells all sorts of sundries and essentials for mills, such as collets, edge and center finders, vises, test indicators, parallels, and so on.

    CNC Z-axis fixed! « The Half-Baked Maker 2010

  • One issue though --- If you get cases fired in another rifle, try them in your rifle first to make sure they chamber since the collets only neck size.

    Lee Collet Dies 2009

  • One issue though --- If you get cases fired in another rifle, try them in your rifle first to make sure they chamber since the collets only neck size.

    Lee Collet Dies 2009

  • Then I slipped the extensions into the compression collets of the VukaClips.

    Wrenched and Ridden bike reviews: Zipp Vuka R2C shifters with VukaShift aero extensions 2010

  • The only problem I had with the whole system was the compression collets holding the extensions into place.

    Wrenched and Ridden bike reviews: Zipp Vuka R2C shifters with VukaShift aero extensions 2010

  • Mrs. B. was arrayed in a superb speckled foulard, with the stripes running fore and aft, and with collets and camails to match; also, a rotonde of Chantilly lace, embroidered with blue and yellow dogs, and birds and things, done in cruel…

    Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

  • Mrs. B. was arrayed in a superb speckled foulard, with the stripes running fore and aft, and with collets and camails to match; also, a rotonde of Chantilly lace, embroidered with blue and yellow dogs, and birds and things, done in cruel…

    Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

  • In collaboration with a textbook recycling company in Grandville, Georgia and Federal Express, Africa's Children's Fund collets and ships used books to Africa.

    CNN Transcript Mar 8, 2003 2003

  • The tool must be clean and sharp; always clamp the workpiece, always chisel on the carpenter’s bench plate, not on the collets; further hints: like plane irons.

    7. Hand Tools Dieter Zemmrich 1993

  • Use collets only if they have a collar and are inserted into the tool from both sides.

    9. Tools Dieter Zemmrich 1993

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