2021 POTD Thread Archive

[silverhawk]

Today, I had a minute to look at an old, keyless chuck. It's a Craftsman 22562 from around 1972. The price was a bit steep ($25, non-functional), but it would fit my wood lathe (a really old, MT1 tailstock/spindle). The jaws were inoperable. It took a bit to dismantle it - but I found it was both missing an internal ball bearing between the arbor and the cup that fits over the arbor (two divots machined into each part, a much larger angle than a 60 degree center for turning), and it had parts inside that were skewampus. So I grabbed my stash of ball bearings, found one that fit, and cleaned the parts.

Re-assembly was a lot quicker than disassembly. It's amazing how that works when you want it to be functional when you're done. I now have a working chuck.

I should to turn something, just to "make sure" it works.

 

[extropic]

@silverhawk

Your photos are not displaying for me,
Can you see them properly when you view your post?
I've not had this problem (on H-M) before and nothing is changed on my computer (that I'm aware of).

 

[silverhawk]

Is weird... it's never done this before. Usually, I post them to the blog and link that way. I'll see if I can edit the post.

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[WobblyHand]

Is weird... it's never done this before. Usually, I post them to the blog and link that way. I'll see if I can edit the post.

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What is even weirder, is if say I reply to your post with the unviewable pictures, the pictures are visible to me in my reply. Seems like a forum problem. Next post will be an attempted reply to your photo post.

 

[WobblyHand]

Today, I had a minute to look at an old, keyless chuck. It's a Craftsman 22562 from around 1972. The price was a bit steep ($25, non-functional), but it would fit my wood lathe (a really old, MT1 tailstock/spindle). The jaws were inoperable. It took a bit to dismantle it - but I found it was both missing an internal ball bearing between the arbor and the cup that fits over the arbor (two divots machined into each part, a much larger angle than a 60 degree center for turning), and it had parts inside that were skewampus. So I grabbed my stash of ball bearings, found one that fit, and cleaned the parts.

Re-assembly was a lot quicker than disassembly. It's amazing how that works when you want it to be functional when you're done. I now have a working chuck.

I should to turn something, just to "make sure" it works.

I can now see the photos, as I am typing this reply. Let's see if HM shows the pictures.

 

[WobblyHand]

Nope. Think this is a forum sw issue.

 

[Just for fun]

I think the photos are too large. When I hit reply I can also see the photos. I downloaded the first one and it is 7.3M. My guess is that if you resized them to a smaller size they will work.

Tim

P.S. I resized the first one..... Lets give it a try.

Today, I had a minute to look at an old, keyless chuck. It's a Craftsman 22562 from around 1972. The price was a bit steep ($25, non-functional), but it would fit my wood lathe (a really old, MT1 tailstock/spindle). The jaws were inoperable. It took a bit to dismantle it - but I found it was both missing an internal ball bearing between the arbor and the cup that fits over the arbor (two divots machined into each part, a much larger angle than a 60 degree center for turning), and it had parts inside that were skewampus. So I grabbed my stash of ball bearings, found one that fit, and cleaned the parts.

Re-assembly was a lot quicker than disassembly. It's amazing how that works when you want it to be functional when you're done. I now have a working chuck.

I should to turn something, just to "make sure" it works.

 

[silverhawk]

I think the photos are too large. When I hit reply I can also see the photos. I downloaded the first one and it is 7.3M. My guess is that if you resized them to a smaller size they will work.

Tim

P.S. I resized the first one..... Lets give it a try.

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As soon as I hit reply, the pictures loaded for me, too. I might have to actually load the pictures to hm in the future. Thanks for the reports back.

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[wachuko]

Got back from Mississippi a few hours ago… first thing on the list was to install an electric plug on my new-to-me G0709!!

Well, okay, now I can start with the cleaning…

 

[Brento]

Today I started making up a poster to try and bring in some work into the shop. Anyone have any tips for it?