R8 is generally self-releasing when used as a simple taper shank, e.g. a drill chuck shank. When it’s used as a collet, however, the angle is effectively halved, so it usually sticks a little ...

With Tormach and Haas capturing a lot of the entry-level professional market for CNC machines, we don’t see too many CNC conversions of manual mills anymore. And so this power drawbar convers… ...