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Roger Wiegand

Roger Wiegand

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One of yesterday's projects was to make some new handles for interchangeable tools. These use the collet system from Robust. They seem to be quite, well, robust. I like the tool-free, quick change capability that the collets provide.

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Nice handles Roger. So what is the variety of tools you are using these for?
 
Thanks! The longer one is zebrawood with some Shellawax on it, the shorter one is a rosewood relative-- I picked it up at an estate sale and don't know exactly what it is. It polishes up beautifully-- there's no finish on it.
 
Just one note about the Robust collets...they are fairly dust sensitive.At least, that is the only excuse I can find for a failure of one. I had one jam and it was not cross threaded - it was tightened with only light hand pressure only...and it could not be loosened. Not even after destroying it with a pipe wrench and bench vice. So, the only thing I can say is that I believe that tight tolerances are good thing most of the time....but not all of the time. I was surprised to say the least.
 
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