Thanks Fred. I was thinking of doing something like this with some 1x8
nuts rather than buying a tap. I have a number of face plates that I
can use as well. I was I'll be in touch for the PDF file.
Thanks again.
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Fred Holder wrote:
Hello Jack,
Since you want this chuck to perform a single task and you want to
keep the cost to a minimum, I would suggest that you make a spring
chuck. The cost will be a faceplate or a 1" x 8 tpi nut and a chunk of
wood. I used to make these for special purpose uses quite often before
I slowly accumulated a dozen or so chucks with different size jaws. I
did an article on these chucks in the December 1996 issue of More
Woodturning. If you want to go to my web site and find my e-mail
address and send me an e-mail, I'll e-mail a PDF of the article to
you. This can be used as a through chuck with the limit of the size
being governed by the diameter of the hole through your headstock. Or
you can make it up larger to hold a piece of wood which is then
supported by a center steady so you can turn the end.
In the early days of woodturning these were quite common and just had
a metal ring that slipped over the outside of the chuck jaws to
compress them onto the workpiece. I used a hose clamp or a metal
ring, if I had one of the right size.
Buy a sack full of 1" x 8 tpi nuts and make a number of these chucks
to hold the tenons on various size pieces. It just takes a short time
to make them and the cost is very low.I found them to work well to
hold the stem for turning spinner tops or the dowel for a bottle
stopper or basically any small round item up to 1" in diameter.
Fred Holder
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On Nov 6, 7:49 am, Jack Stein wrote:
I have an old, 1954 vintage Rockwell Delta lathe. I've been using it to
put new tips on pool cues. To do this, I jam the cue shaft through the
hollow head spindle and into a ball bearing steady rest I made. This
works OK if I'm careful to wrap the cue shaft but is not ideal to say
the least.
What I would like to get is a thru chuck that fits a 1 x 8 spindle that
I can tighten down on the cue shaft as it comes out of the spindle.
I've never used a jaw chuck to turn anything, I always attach a hunk of
wood to a face plate to mount bowls or spigots etc. Chucks are
generally used to hold bowls or spigots and descriptions are not clear
to me if they would hold something like this.
I'm looking for a cheap solution, nothing fancy or expensive, but I'm
not sure which chucks would work best to hold a thin (under 1/2") dowel
threaded through the spindle?
I'm looking at this one from Penn State tools:
http://www.pennstateind.com/store/ec...aw-chucks.html
I'm not sure this one would even work from the pictures, and I'd really
like something even cheaper, but under $100 I guess is ok. It needs to
be self centering as I don't want to fool around adjusting jaws.
Any thoughts or ideas would be appreciated.
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Jack
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