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Chuck advice.
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Jim
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I have the same amount Walter, but i daren't mention it in my post, thinking people would see me as a weirdo .. Glad others came out before me ..
Walter
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There is a full explanation on the Toolpost website, but to summarise:
There are five styles of interchangeable mounting jaws, each designed for use with jaws from different chuck manufacturers.
Perhaps I need to buy some more Chucks then
cookie21
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axi chucks for me
wm460
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Thanks Walter, wonder if I could make something like this for my Vicmarc and Nova chucks?
wm460
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Perhaps I need to buy some more Chucks then
Most defiantly Vic, you need to train Audrey to buy you things like Violet does to Woody.
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Handy thread, I've been dithering over making a similar post myself as I'm in the situation of not having any chucks and need to sort out an eccentricity issue with my homemade adaptor/drill chuck combo. The mandrel ends up binding in one of two orientations, true but off centre to tailstock or off centre to tailstock and rotating around a point. It's not the adaptor at fault it's the old drill chuck.
I'd been tossing up between the Sorby Patriot and the Versa Chuck, I'm limited in choices as I need one that takes an inset owing to having a 1980's Elektra Beckum lathe. Both seem to come in at approx the same price when you add the required bits in, it seems that the Versa Chuck is rated well by the comments above and would add flexibility in the future. Ultimately I'll be replacing the existing lathe but want to get something I can move onto a new model when I do.
The other option is to replace the lathe entirely with something that actually has a MT in the headstock to mount a mandrel, but I was eyeing up the option of the pen jaws to also use the lathe to drill. Anyhow, I'm derailing the thread slight and should make another :)
I'd been tossing up between the Sorby Patriot and the Versa Chuck, I'm limited in choices as I need one that takes an inset owing to having a 1980's Elektra Beckum lathe. Both seem to come in at approx the same price when you add the required bits in, it seems that the Versa Chuck is rated well by the comments above and would add flexibility in the future. Ultimately I'll be replacing the existing lathe but want to get something I can move onto a new model when I do.
The other option is to replace the lathe entirely with something that actually has a MT in the headstock to mount a mandrel, but I was eyeing up the option of the pen jaws to also use the lathe to drill. Anyhow, I'm derailing the thread slight and should make another :)
Penpal
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Not into chuck bragging I do have sufficient I used to keep to ones that used one inch ten threads having had a few woodfast lathes a VL100 then the larger thread for the two large woodfasts and now also the VL150. I have been known in the past to buy metal lathes simply to extend my range of chucks from small to big then onsell the lathes themselves at buying time getting multiple chucks. So I understand must haveitus I have had it in spades.
Where I worked one time there was a plethora of Hercus Lathes in fact where I bought mine and in one Dept of the University was a metal workshop with a huge lathe they sold to upgrade the guy who ran the workshop was a strange guy anyway one day I was in the workshop and he approached me said here and plonked a cardboard box in my hand it weighed heavy in it was the Hercus 3 jaw chuck I showed recently with the adapter to fit 1 inch ten threads in great nick the one I showed in pics on a thread recently that was 24 years ago. You never never know the bloke had made adapters for the onsold lathe for fine work using that chuck.
Peter.
Where I worked one time there was a plethora of Hercus Lathes in fact where I bought mine and in one Dept of the University was a metal workshop with a huge lathe they sold to upgrade the guy who ran the workshop was a strange guy anyway one day I was in the workshop and he approached me said here and plonked a cardboard box in my hand it weighed heavy in it was the Hercus 3 jaw chuck I showed recently with the adapter to fit 1 inch ten threads in great nick the one I showed in pics on a thread recently that was 24 years ago. You never never know the bloke had made adapters for the onsold lathe for fine work using that chuck.
Peter.
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Nova and a collet chuck, which I would not be without for pen making. Also between centres turning for pens - I haven't used my mandrel for a while but can hold it with the collet chuck if need be. Problem is getting a decent sized collet chuck in the UK - mine came from California!
Versa chuck all the way
Penpal
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(newbie questions incoming)
I'm presuming that the smallest, 6mm, collet insert would bind up against a normal pen mandrel ok?
Long term I want to learn to make custom pens and I've heard people mention collet chucks as being required for this?
If so then it might be another option for me as all I currently want to do is mount a mandrel truly.
I'm presuming that the smallest, 6mm, collet insert would bind up against a normal pen mandrel ok?
Long term I want to learn to make custom pens and I've heard people mention collet chucks as being required for this?
If so then it might be another option for me as all I currently want to do is mount a mandrel truly.
You want a 1/4 collet