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I have been productive this past month.
Got a decent 4 jaw 6" chuck off of FleaBay. Nothing fancy but it works.
The backplate threads were too short to fully engage the register on the lathe, so I made an appropriately sized spacer and superglued it to the chuck. Also used the superglue chuck method to face the other side of the spacer. First time for me doing the superglue thing. What a great solution for stuff like this. This is in my book for good now!
Mounted and centered the hole, bored it and it too came out beautiful.
Also sprung for the Bostar wedgie toolpost with holders....
Have it mounted quickly on the cross slide for now, and already an improvement.
It'll do till I work out the nice mounting plate for it that is in the 4 jaw.
I want it to be really solid.
So, I appreciate everyone's input. You really helped me out.
Now I know the difference between a 4 jaw wood chuck and a 4 jaw metal chuck! And the 2 are not interchangeable.
I have been productive this past month.
Got a decent 4 jaw 6" chuck off of FleaBay. Nothing fancy but it works.
The backplate threads were too short to fully engage the register on the lathe, so I made an appropriately sized spacer and superglued it to the chuck. Also used the superglue chuck method to face the other side of the spacer. First time for me doing the superglue thing. What a great solution for stuff like this. This is in my book for good now!
Mounted and centered the hole, bored it and it too came out beautiful.
Also sprung for the Bostar wedgie toolpost with holders....
Have it mounted quickly on the cross slide for now, and already an improvement.
It'll do till I work out the nice mounting plate for it that is in the 4 jaw.
I want it to be really solid.
So, I appreciate everyone's input. You really helped me out.
Now I know the difference between a 4 jaw wood chuck and a 4 jaw metal chuck! And the 2 are not interchangeable.