South Bend 9A restoration happening w/pics!!

LX Kid said:
I was browsing eBay and found a compound assembly with a "new" screw for $79 for the pair. It was just too good a deal to pass up! Mine has soo much slop in it so I decided to buy it.
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Did it include the nut?
 
Chuck K said:
Did it include the nut?
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Yes. I lost a nut somewhere in my shop. It hit the floor and rolled away somewhere. I had to make one out of a nut.
 
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This really makes me sick!!!! Just saw this SB 9A on Facebook for $1300. It's been gone thru and comes with a lot of tooling.
 

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Gave it a whirl at truing the chuck this evening. I went from .013" down to .004" runout. It is very slow going and my knees and ankles were just give out and had to stop. I'll finish it up tomorrow. The Dremel pencil worked like a charm. I used a 1-1/8" OD bearing deep inside on the back flats of the jaws to be able to tighten the jaws. (Saw it on YouBoob) The #3 jaw was the one that was way out. Going to grind about another .002" and call it done. i'm already happy with the .004" but just a little more would be better.

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Before you went ahead and screwed up your chuck, did you AT LEAST disassemble it and check for swarf caught in the scroll or threads?
 
LX Kid said:
This really makes me sick!!!! Just saw this SB 9A on Facebook for $1300. It's been gone thru and comes with a lot of tooling.
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You probably don't want to hear about the 9A I got in mint condition for $480CAD ($370 USD) from a local school auction :(
 
SLK001 said:
Before you went ahead and screwed up your chuck, did you AT LEAST disassemble it and check for swarf caught in the scroll or threads?
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I was thinking that too but saw he posted a while back that he disassembled and cleaned it up. Maybe jaws out of position?
 
If you get the jaws in the wrong order it is like 3/16 of an inch of runout, it wouldn't even be close.
 
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