In article , Mike Berger says...

How does a "chucker" lathe differ from other types?

In short, chuckers don't have tailstocks, or tailstock turrets.

The turret is mounted on the bed, in place of a cross slide.

Basically if you took your standard southbend lathe, threw
out the tailstock, and mounted a four position toolpost on
the cross slide, that would be a primitive chucker.

Jim


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