I Didn't know what a collet block was even though I've been using collets for at least a couple of years now. Thanks for the video.

Dale you are human and every now again a mistake pops up. I still think your a brilliant machinist that gives up his time to teach others. Keep up the vids they are great.

Just found your site. Excellent. Delivery and content. I’m a rookie. Just getting started. Thanks

Collet blocks weigh a lot less than a rotary table! Great idea. Thanks for the video.

I have been looking at these deciding what to buy. I am a confessed "Tool Hoarder". I love your channel. You get to the point and explain things in a timely manner. Most channels are 40-50 mins of just rambling. Keep up the great work Dale.

I want you to know the huge value you always bring to these lessons, I am in your debt

Thank you Dale. We watch you here in Nicaragua also. We love your tips and tricks. God bless!

Dale, I greatly appreciated this video, as I was doing this exact process over the winter break and it helped immensely. Keep up the great work with ALL of your videos.

I enjoy your video's, Mr Pete222, Keith ,Rucker and Abom79. Some of the other guys are really trying to entertain to hard. I'm a novice who inherited a lathe and mill from my older brother. I'm 60 and not ready to die yet and want to learn I enjoyed learning about the collet block. I thought you only had a v shaped vise to hold round things. Many thanks, I haven't found that amoung the tooling yet.. But in know what to look for now, Thank you.

Always something worthwhile from you. Thank you, I’m going to measure mine which are identical to yours.

Great vid, I was thinking of investing in a set of collet blocks, this vid has sealed the deal, just ordered them after watching :)

Very helpful, and entertaining. Thank you.

Thanks dale, always great watching and good info. Keep making videos.

Thanks! Another very well done video!

Your vedios are my favourite. Thanks, Dale.

You are one more friend on my list...many thanks for the great explanations.

I concur with a lot of the folks who have commented about how well your videos are made, nice job Dale, keep it up.

Great resume on the subject Dale. Thanks for honesty with the mistake... made a good point.

thank you , now i know i'm not the only one to have thought lapses in the middle of a project , love your channel

I know about collet blocks but never got around to buying one. Great informative video, and your human as well pre CNC.

Kudos for keeping the mistakes in!. Happens to the best of us. Thanks from the UK. Keep them coming.

Yes I can thoroughly recommend these Blocks - fell over the concept recently - using R32 & R40 Collets - Have now 2 sets and already had great enjoyment in the easy repeatability from using them. ( Stevenson's Blocks ) Enjoy your take on the jobs you do. thanks

Easy watching. Great stuff.Thanks!

I have a spindexer that I was going to use Tom Lipton's modification to create my own index plates before I got a rotary table with plates. It is handy for setting up in the vise and indexing 90 degrees for square and 60 degrees for hex. Another option for your viewers. Good job Dale, watch all you tips and have learned a ton. Keep them coming

I love how you beat the 'trolls' to the punch line!! I subscribed! I am a machinist too and actually learned a few things here, especially making a radius with a dowel pin. This is what KZfaq is for, sharing, learning and straight to the point. Your work shop is so well organized and clean, I like it!!

I don't even know a tenth of what you know about metalworks so great job!

Great vid with positive vibes

I really enjoy the simplicity of your videos. Keep up the good work.

Nice explanation--One of the next purchases I'm going to make.

I like your videos. About 2 days ago I was thinking to buy a set for myself, I think I will soon just to have a set . They can be very handy.

Now I don't know why am I so happy to see your content using the Manual ❤️ Milling Machine , I just found your channel I am subscribed

Love your videos and your teaching style. Very informative sir!

Thank you for the video Dale. I love the clarity and simplicity of your videos. Never stop teaching, Never stop learning.

Another great one with the whoops exposed so we can learn why you have to pay attention to every step in the shop. It may just be me, but I rarely forget the reasons for mistakes, as opposed to the luck buried in first time success. Thanks Dale

Just found your channel, Subbed and a thumbs up. I am fairly new to machine shop work. Good clear videos. I use a collet block and a collet stop for repeatability on parts all the time. One of my favorite tools, I will be indicating the shops block to see how good they are as they are well used and battle worn.

It's a good way to make rectangles! Kudos to you for leaving it in. If it was me it would be the last thing I was trying to do, scrapping hours of work!

I have a set of 5C and many ER32s used on a CNC router. Been looking at the blocks but leary of Chinese and have too many wants to buy professional level. Metal is my hobby, wood my business. We replace our ER collets every year, they wear with constant use, heating/cooling, side loads, 16,000 rpm. Thanks for the great videos.

Thanks for another great learning video

Great video Dale! I must be a nerd to be this excited about a collet video! I loved the lead in music and sound fx also!

Hey mate I have a Bridgeport 8 mill in Australia and am glade to see someone else using one hard to get adaptors in Aus love watching your vids

I enjoy your easy way of doing things

Just found your Channel Dale. Enjoying it so far although this could prove expensive. Just ordered a Collet Block set.

Very fast and efficient set up! I liked seeing your mistake on this one. It shows even the pros can make mistakes! Your videos are very helpful! Thanks for your time doing these videos for all of us!

Nice refresher Dale,Thanks!

thanks man. such a wonderful ideas

Great video! Good to see that the experts make mistakes as wel...... Please keep the posts comming.

very good video, like the attention to details

I've been watching a LOT of machinist's channels here recently, yours is as good as it gets. It's good to see that others make my kind of mistake. I had a boss tell me one time, 'measure twice, cut once'. lol I still made mistakes ... Thank you, sir!

I'm a journeyman machinist of 40 years service and you did good. Years ago on my Bridgeport days I used one often, but sometimes they want a slot or flat on a few surfaces, so this was your preferred tool. You can use the block in a lathe too if your work is to be held properly without creating clamping marks on the finished surfaces.

XD... on purpose... For many machinist channels that i subscribed to, yours is the most informative on machining related... I learn alot from you Dale. Thank you. Because I'm having night classes on Laser and Tooling course, most of what they teach is very basic, not as much as your channel... so I'm so happy to find your channel.

Awesome, good info for sure.

Excellent - much appreciated!

Making mistakes is all about the learning process, hell I've made thousands! Really enjoy your vids Dale, Thank You!

Thanks for the training.

I needed one of those last week. ended up making a square head on my new drawbar for my old Kearney and Trecker.

good info + cool style = successful channel... :)

Another great video. I appreciate very much that you do machining that is to the point without the superfluous meanderings which have become the norm for KZfaq machining videos. Excellent background lighting, camera angles, audio and video editing. Maybe a little more foreground lighting. Safety trolls aren't whining about repositioning the part with the machine on. Metal Tips and Tricks is becoming a premiere KZfaq channel for hobby machinists. Thank you for creating this great content!

I enjoy it all Dale

Thanks, Dale You are my go to, for 'How To', as I learn about setting up and using my first lathe, (at 65). I've been exploring collets, and I saw these little square and hex suckers, and wondered why I might need them. You have, as usual, explained it clearly, and concisely. You did throw me a curve when you said the hex holder would go into your grinding room. If that because it was so well done, you want to keep it as a reference? Or another reason? Thanks for sharing your knowledge, and experience. And, espcially, thanks for all the work it takes to put together vids as well produced as yours... As far as the 'mistake', you really need to remember to engage 'Hear-O-Vision' before you start recording, then when you are about to eff up, you can hear us yelling at you! LOL Regards

great, enjoyed

Enjoyed, keep up the good work....

Nice simple method as you stated. I have done the same not locating the block at the desired flat, its easy to do. Keep the videos coming and blow off the negative input. Some people have to be negative, miserable to be happy ???

Good stuff, Dale. Now I see how a collet block can be used. Beats setting up a spacer or rotary table for small parts.

Keep up the good work dale,,

another great episode that I just revisited. as a suggestion it may be of benefit to outline the possible or common mistakes that occur in the various machining processes. like when you (intentionally) rotated the collet block initially on a flat and then onto a corner. these type of examples are great for the budding home machinist.

Another great video!

Great video ty.😁

Thx for the video Dale. I have a set of ER32 blocks that I made a while ago. They really come in handy for quick jobs such as just running a flat for a grub screw or multiples of, on a shaft. regards from the UK

As one of your many hobby machinist students, it's nice to see the teacher make a mistake once in a while = ) makes me feel better about the half dozen I've made today.

Thanks for the explanation of this tool.

I saw it sitting on corner before cut. I have learned yelling at PC will not stop things... LOL Nice video Sir. Keep up the good work!

great video! much appreciated! I'm gonna get me a set.

Great video! Thanks!

Your video are enjoyable to watch because of the right degree of coverage: close-up when it needs to be, wide when talking to the camera. I know editing multiple cameras is tedious but know it makes for a much more enjoyable viewing experience. Thanks!

nice one Dale, new way to make square nuts!

Good tutorial. Thank you and keep on.

Great job

LOL... I really don't know it was on purpose or not but I like the information and the way you delivered it. Everything well planned... so, liked and subbed.

you are doing just great

Superb explanation.

Good video as always Dale. And nice to see some one running an accuracy test on the tooling. I usually won't buy anything for the shop unless there's some kind of + - accuracy specification given. The off shore tooling is getting better in most cases, but the bottom priced stuff can still be pretty bad at times. But mistakes can even creep in on the top drawer equipment. If you don't test then there's no way to know you got everything you paid for, or that you just may have made a mistake and not paid enough.

Beautiful

Excellent

Thanks Dale for this video, I am planning to machine my own collet blocks since I can't find them for R8.My metal is brass (Hex), and aluminum for the square.

Great lively video, as ever Dale! Keep them coming, I have much to learn. Trolls would probably complain that even though you left the mill running while moving the fixture around, we didn't get to see any mincemeat or claret! ;)

Good video once again, Dale. I did have to laugh at the mistake, especially because you'd just decided to throw caution to the wind. That always makes it hurt twice as much when it happens to me! :-)

It's nice device!! 👍

Hi Dale, it appears that either no troll has surfaced yet or they failed to catch the troll bait, which not clearing the vice and collet block of any chips or foreign material each time you rotated the setup, which is important for accuracy. Anyway, great job producing a simple and easy to comprehend explanation of collets and collet blocks. Thanks for sharing!

Great video and thank you very much. However now I have to buy some of those block collet holders.

Thanks!

Oops! Great video. Thanks, John

Thanks for the video .. I had to buy a couple of collet blocks and a set of 5C Collets lol

Great video that''s going to help me make my Harbor Freight mini mill, be a "poor man's lathe". With the hex block I'll be able to machine a smaller bolt head on an existing grade 8 3/4" shoulder bolt. The problem I had was machining the run out of the shoulder for the 4 jaw chuck adapter plate. I needed the bolt head still attached to wrench it onto the adapter plate. The bolt is quite long, and I have no way of keeping the bolt centered with a live center as it's a mini mill, not a lathe. The Spindle head is my moving carriage so to speak. I then have to machine the adapter plate with precision so it fits into the 4 jaw chuck I purchased a QCTP from Grizzly, and a Slotted Angle Plate to attach the QTCP to the mill's table, to hold tooling. But now being able to cut off the existing bolt head with the length I need for the shaft and smaller bolt head to fit inside the R8 collet, will increase the accuracy for the 4 jaw self aligning chuck. This all had me pondering as to how I was going to make this accurate, as the length is 6 inches. Seeing this video saved the day! I don't have the money to buy a lathe so this was the next best thing. Believe it or not, I'm going to use the lathe chuck to do accurate letter stamping on an invention and some parts I'll be making. Hope this all makes sense. Thought I'd leave a positive comment, and build something cool too! Hope this is a bit clearer than mud. But just had to write you to let you know, ya never know what you pick up, and will later apply it down the road. Keep up the good wotk Dale!

keep teaching thanks

My boss has a bad habit of showing up when i make an error like that. Great video!

I don't do any machining so I love your "warts and all" explanations- I'm also new to the channel so I'd love a beginners guide to the machinery - what the parts are called and what they do etc. I'd also like to hear what the restrictions of the various methods used are (if any) Great audio and camera angles too - this can be an issue I've had with other channels- Other wise I'd love to see projects that utilise all your tips and tricks :0) Keep up the great videos!

Dale , love your videos they are really simple to understand and informative. I just got a set of collett blocks and was wondering what purpose the set screw serves, looks like you removed yours in this video. Now i also need to make a spanner for the lock nuts.

Nicely done Dale. Again, a subject I find very interesting, since I don't have collet chucks yet and have been thinking about get those two. I thought about making them, but KBC stopped me... :-) Cheers and thanks, Daniel.

Mr Bozo lives with me so I am used to making Bozo moves. Collets are very handy for lots of things. Thanks for the video.

Enjoyed this video. I think it's maybe worth at least mentioning that with 5C collets you can use a collet stop, which is really helpful when you have to reference off the end of the object that's in the collet. It also seems like a pretty easy thing to fabricate, which might make a nice video of its own, if you are looking for project suggestions? I spent a while suffering without one, I think it might be one of the best spent ten dollars in my shop, or certainly not the worst!