Originally Posted by
AMCTony
I have a Pneumatic 5C Unit made by Atlas. It has thru bore capability and is dead length on closing style as well. Everything to operate it is also up front so you just bolt it on and hook up the air. The down side is that it was $3300 a few years ago. depending on the application this may be worth it. In my case I needed to have zero collet pull back so this was my option.
I have not seen or used a dead length collet spindle in quite some time. LOL, must have something to do with the "buy cheap mentality" these days.
Nice to hear someone has one and uses it.
Toby D.
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