DREMEL type collets

DREMEL type collets

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28 May 2025 at 15:42 #800137
Speedy Builder5
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Are there available for purchase very small DREMEL type collets for small drills – #80 – #60 (0.0135″ – 0.0400″). Currently I use a pin vice and a cordless drill, but you loose the “Feel” of the drill.
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28 May 2025 at 16:10 #800141
JasonB
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I’ve got a 3-jaw for mine that just replaces the collet & nut and will close right down
28 May 2025 at 17:36 #800163
bernard towers
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Using a no80 drill in a dremel your a better man than me!!!!
28 May 2025 at 21:06 #800215
Bazyle
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Have you heard about ‘pcb drills’ that have a standard 1/8″ or 3mm shank holding fine drills. Quick search showed one at 0.01cm or 4 thou.
28 May 2025 at 21:28 #800227
Andrew Entwistle
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Many sources (Amazon, AliExpress, eBay) for example https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/175352784092

set of ten from 0.1 mm to 1 mm
28 May 2025 at 21:29 #800228
Andrew Entwistle
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Being carbide they are brittle, I would not use below about 0.5 mm without using a stand.
28 May 2025 at 21:33 #800230
Neil Lickfold
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The small dremel drill chuck is really good for the small drills. I use the dremel with the flex shaft to drill 0.3mm vent holes for vacuum form tools, has the little drill chuck on it.

Neil
29 May 2025 at 05:36 #800249
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As the collet has slots in it to allow it to collapse, there would be a lower limit to the diameter of item it would hold.

That would mean for really small diameters, it would need a collet with non-standard slots (or varying width slots across the collet size range), which is not something economically viable in the market in which Dremel places itself.

A three jaw chuck has naturally-varying gaps between the gripping surfaces.
29 May 2025 at 06:32 #800253
Speedy Builder5
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I think the Dremel chuck may be the answer.

Thanks for the replies.

Bob
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