The better collet?

[LittleWatchShop]

Anecdotally, I say that Levin has better collets.

I have a variety of brands.  I could be wrong but that is what I think today.

Happily, I have almost a full set of Levin collets and my bank account reflects that fact!!

[nickelsilver]

Levin makes amazing collets. But any collet can become damaged, especially smaller sizes. I have about 4 full sets of 8mm Schaublin collets, same quality as Levin, and still have to try different ones of the same size for really tricky work sometimes.

[LittleWatchShop]

12 hours ago, nickelsilver said:

But any collet can become damaged

Yeah, I posted about my #11 Levin collet a couple of months ago.  Way out of round...pretty amazing.  Looking at it...it looks normal.

 

12 hours ago, nickelsilver said:

have to try different ones

I need to go through all of mine at some point and cull out the poorer ones.  A project for another day.