Quote Originally Posted by CrazeUK View Post
Hey thanks for these links, I'll check them out. The parts for this thing do seem really expensive, and limited in number of suppliers. I think, I'll get a collet, nut, and cable and maybe sell it and invest in a vfd and spindle.

What size collet would you say is standard?
That depends on what you work with and which cutters you are using. I have 10 x 1/8" 10 x 4mm and 10 x 6mm ER11 collets, apart from the complete ER11 series. I am using a lot of very small tools and I find it easiest to have a large collection of collets and collet nuts. If I wanted to have the same set for Kress I'd had to spend a small fortune on these. ER11 and ER16 collets are cheap, so it is no big deal buying these in large numbers.