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8mm Collet

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I dont know if anybody could point me in the right dirction here. I am after an 8mm collet that will fit my half inch Ryobi router. According to the manual they only do quarter inch and half inch collets for this machine. Is there a third party company that makes collets? Any help would be much appreciated.

thanks Pete
 
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I've not seen anyone offering the collets seperately, although I found that my ultra cheap MacAllister 1250 that came new with 50 carbide bits off German eBay a couple of years ago for IIRC Eur30, had exactly the same collets and included proper 1/4", 8mm, 12mm and 1/2" collets which fitted fine, which made my big Ryobi very versatile and the MacAllister router itself like for nothing.

The Ryobi was cheap, too, and bought primarily for the two side fences that came with it, one micro adjustable, and which fit every router I've got, even the equally cheap Einhell 850.

I've been surprised at the interchangeability of parts between different makes. It's sometimes cheaper to buy a whole router with included extras than to buy dedicated spares for the more expensive ones. The little Einhell, which is an old Elu knock off, gets a lot of use and I'm able to use it with a micro adjustable fence or two fences and a micro adjustable depth gauge, all of which came with other machines. It came with 6mm collets but I even managed to get 1/4" ones out of Einhell UK, as for the UK market they supply them with just 1/4" ones.

The MacAllister collets even fitted my DeWalt 625, although that only normally gets used with the 1/2" one that came with it.

Since things like collets are almost certainly bought in from a specialist manufacturer, someone out there must be supplying them.

ISTR that in the UK, MacAllister is a house brand of B&Q. You might try checking there. Maybe they have a duff one returned that you could buy for the bits?
 
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