Some months ago I bought an old Boley-Leinen collet closer. The gadget is almost complete but: It lacks the supporting bars The ball plungers were broken The collet closer levers were broken The cosmetic was not at its best The collet closer as bought The following picture shows the collet closer assembled as usual: Below, you can see some details of the parts. In the first picture, you can see the closer body.

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Which are the collets that uses the Klaiber WS2 tool grinder? I found the answer few days ago while looking at ebay.de. A seller was offering a Klaiber grinder.In the machine pictures there was this one: It is a 6mm collet for the klaiber. The picture has the answer!! Klaiber collets are of type 317E. It was a non usual collet size. I have not found any provider offering it. If somebody knows the nominal dimensions for this standard, I will be happy to hear about it ;-).

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Some days ago appeared in ebay a great Leinen MLZ4SB lathe to sell. The pictures in ebay also showed a manual for the lathe. This model is close to the type of my lathe. Thus, I decided to talk with the seller and to ask him if it is possible to send me a copy of the manual. People at der-gebrauchtwarenhandel, the Ebay seller, where really kind and they sent me a scan of the manual.

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I found somewhere the user manual of the Klaiber WS2 and some brochures. Here they are: Klaiber WS IIa manual (in German) Klaiber WS IIa (mit Automatik) brochure Klaiber WS IIa, examples of use

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A new guest The garage has a new guest. It is a small universal tool grinder. A Klaiber WS2 maybe of the last models built by Lechler. Below, there are some pictures. As you can see the overall state is good. Finishing is original. I only appreciated a very slight wear in the table lineal bearings. You guess it: the table of this machine is supported by lineal bearings. I think this is not very usual on Klaiber machines.

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I was obsessed with those beautiful optional tailstocks built by Leinen that appear in the lathe parts catalog. An intense surveillance in ebay has given some partial results.

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