Mini lathe chuck change out

[mac1911]

Find a friend with a bandsaw
My parting experience on my lathe with 3/4 hot rolled ended with me looking for holes in my roof, after I changed my shorts.
Jamming the lathe is not the worst thing that can happen.

I was thinking of a riot shield during the operation , lol
All jokes aside I will proceed with caution. All my friends come to me for tools.
I might have to get as close as I can with the parting tool then suffer with the hack saw.

 

[dabear3428]

Just be aware that a 4 jaw chuck is a relatively heavy chuck and needs a powerful motor to turn it, the LMS 4 jaw chuck that I have was bought from a member here (Roycess , may he rest in peace) who could not use it due to the smaller HF mini lathe that he owned, it is working alright on my LMS lathe but it still takes a few seconds longer to come to full speed or to a dead stop.
LMS is the best source of info for you as you already know, the LMS chuck I have is also sold with or without a back plate.

the 4 jaw i got, K72-125 VEVOR was exactly the same size and weight, exactly the same registration, drilled 2 holes to match up the 3 hole bolt pattern and it worked like it was made for it

 

[dabear3428]

just some feedback, the Vevor 4 jaw is still working great and it is nice to be able to take a part in the lathe chuck and transfer the chuck to my indexing head and back again not having the worry about zeroing it each time.

I also have an er32 collet chuck on its way on a slow boat from China. all will interchange between my lathe and indexer.

 

[Aaron_W]

I'm curious, how long does it take to swap chucks with the flange type set up on many of the small import lathes?

Is it a fussy operation or pretty straight forward?

All of the lathes I've used had threaded spindles.

 

[dabear3428]

I'm curious, how long does it take to swap chucks with the flange type set up on many of the small import lathes?

Is it a fussy operation or pretty straight forward?

All of the lathes I've used had threaded spindles.

not long, 3 nuts to remove and reinstall with new chuck and mine will be within .002" tap with a soft blow a few times to get it perfect, of course the 4 jaw does not need that. I do install in the marked clocking.
the registration keeps them very close to centered.

 

[dabear3428]

for anyone looking for a 3 bolt to 4 bolt adapter for the 8.7 swing mini lathes, i ran across this.

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