Ideas for Storing Very Heavy Lathe Chucks?

[MrWhoopee]

At school we had a "chuck tree" anchored to the floor at the headstock end of each lathe. The branches were pivoting arms that went thru the center hole of the chuck. A lifting eye screwed into the chuck to lift it off the arm and onto the lathe.

 

[erikmannie]

I finally got the holes drilled in the wood bases. Here is the completion of the project mentioned in this thread:



The D1-6 camlock studs are sunk in to holes in the wood. I want to have his low of a center of gravity as possible.

 

[benmychree]

All that stuff is way too shiny!

 

[erikmannie]

All that stuff is way too shiny!

It is very stress relieving for me to wipe the dust off of the chucks, and apply a thin coat of way oil.

 

[erikmannie]

The whole idea of this project was to get the heavy chucks out of the way. Here they are tucked in, mostly out of the way. I can still access all of the things on that pegboard:

 

[MrWhoopee]

That's a lot of casters! Nice work.

 

[Magnett]

I either have bigger drawers or smaller chucks, but I just drop the key crossways through the jaws. Where one goes the other can’t help but follow.

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I like your box for the change gears!

 

[benmychree]

The whole idea of this project was to get the heavy chucks out of the way. Here they are tucked in, mostly out of the way. I can still access all of the things on that pegboard:

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Way, way, way too neat!

 

[erikmannie]

I like your box for the change gears!

Please clarify.

 

[kiwi_007]

For my D1-6 chucks I built an A frame dolly on casters With pins on both sides.
The weight of the chucks keep them in place, the big 4jaw is supported by two pins on the outer dia and the 3 jaws are supported by a pin through the bore of the chuck.

The advantage is the chucks are easily moved, and they don’t take up a lot of real estate.

I got the idea off of the internet and one of the local engineering shops.