ER collets have a wide clamping range and high accuracy. While they are designed for tool holding, they work great for work holding in small lathes. With a full set of ER collets you can hold any diameter that is in the clamping range of the set. There are several types of collets that look like ER collets.

Standards of ER Collets These collets are usually found in a standard series as: ER-8, ER-11, ER-16, ER-20, ER-25, ER-32, ER-40, and ER-50. The numbers represent the opening diameter of the tapered receptacle in millimeters.

Spring collets are perishable tools for fixing a workpiece at the processing, or fixing cutting tools, and used as some parts of a machine or a conveyance machine.

Collets and chucks are two common types of mechanism used to hold spindle tooling or workpieces. Technically speaking, a collet is a type of chuck, but the two terms are usually used exclusively. A 'chuck' usually refers to any type of work holder which is not a collet.