While thinking about buying a drill chuck w/ adapter for my tailstock,
it occurred to me that I have an almost brand-new cordless drill, sans
battery, available to me for free. The chuck seems fairly robust, but is
a threaded chuck. Does anyone make an adapter to fit those to MT2?

ENCO is a good source for these kinds of adapters, but a Chinese drill
chuck with a jacob's taper is fairly inexpensive, so why bother using a
too small, too weak chuck from your cordless drill?

Because the chuck is actually large enough and strong enough for anything I
would use it for, it's free, and I already have it. Unless the adapter was
prohibitively expensive, I'd rather just use something I've already got.

But, the more I look around, the more it seems that either availability or
cost will probably keep me from using the chuck. Ah, well. You can't win
them all.

steve