Tuesday, March 14, 2013:

The 3/16" (0.1875 in) Collets for the Bosch, Bosch-Colt, Hitachi, Rigid, Porter-Cable, and Dewalt Routers Are FINALLY Here

Well! This certainly took a lot longer than anticipated. Although the design and pre-production were completed more than a year ago, a totally full production schedule did not allow the fabrication and testing of ANY new products until now. In any case, they are here now and ready for prime-time.

Tuesday, March 14, 2013:

The 1/4" (0.2500 in) PG & SG collets for the Bosch-Colt (Rigid 2400) are back in stock!

We now have ample inventory of both grades (SG & PG) of the Colt 1/4" collet on the shelf and ready to go. This will be the last lot of 1/4" Colt collets that we produce.

Monday, March 4, 2013:

Extreme-Precision (EP) Collets Now Available for Porter-Cable and Bosch Routers

The new grinding and measuring techniques developed over the past year have now been applied to the collets we make for the Porter-Cable 7518, Bosch 1618 and all compatible routers. After some minor surgery on the ordering pages and product database, EP grade collets and collet kits are now available.

Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013:

New Measurement and Grinding Processes Create Our Most Precise Collets Ever!

For the past 6 months, we have been developing a techinque that would allow us to simultaneously measure both the internal bore and the external taper of our collets to a resolution of 0.00050". That's 50 millionths of an inch! Although originally conceived as a method to speed up post-production quality control, the ultimate goal was to enable us to experiment with different grinding processes in an effort to make collets far more precise and predictable than ever before.

Three weeks ago we started making measurements that showed that the new equipment was capable of performing at the level of precision that we required. It allowed us to formulate the tweaks to the grinding process that we hoped would lead to a significant improvement in precision and consistency.

Last week, most of the final touches were added to the optics, mechanical system and mesurement & control software. On Monday of this week, we started measuring collets better than any we had developed before.