In article , Gunner says...

Poor heat treating and poor material will cause them to snap off a
finger with some regularity.

Interesting. I've never seen that happpen - but then I've
populated my collet drawers with old, and semi-new hardinge
stuff. I forget what sobel sells them for, but one is allowed
to dig though and pick out the nicer ones, which might be
a little more expensive.

Jim

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