Just hit my email inbasket.

For those of use with a lathe with a faceplate but without a
collet closer, a collet vise can be bolted to the face plate for
short parts. A square/hex tumble block fixture is also nice for
those of us without an indexer or rotary table.

Enco has these on sale w/ 17 collets from 1/16 to 1-1/16 for
119.95
click on
http://www.use-enco.com/CGI/INSRIT?D...PMAKA=235-0000

With a right angle plate this is very flexable for compound angle
milling [although fussy to set up] but it is also economical for
most any size mill.
for example
http://www.use-enco.com/CGI/INSRIT?P...PARTPG=INLMK32
or
http://www.use-enco.com/CGI/INSRIT?P...PARTPG=INLMK32
[necessary to drill/tap holes to mount stuff or use a slotted
one]

You can go to 1-1/8 Ø with a short/shallow collet, and collets
are availabe with square and hex openings in addition to rounds.
example
http://www.use-enco.com/CGI/INSRIT?P...PARTPG=INLMK32
http://www.use-enco.com/CGI/INPDFF?P...MITEM=230-4332
http://www.use-enco.com/CGI/INPDFF?P...MITEM=326-0944

Enco has good deal shipping this month:
Get Free UPS Shipping* on your entire Enco order of $50 or more.
Just enter WB8SR in the promo code box on the shopping cart page
at
use-enco.com or mention the code to your friendly sales associate
when you order by phone at 800-USE-ENCO.

Better investment than Lehman stock....

Unka' George [George McDuffee]
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He that will not apply new remedies,
must expect new evils:
for Time is the greatest innovator: and
if Time, of course, alter things to the worse,
and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better,
what shall be the end?

Francis Bacon (1561-1626), English philosopher, essayist, statesman.
Essays, "Of Innovations" (1597-1625).