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nailshooter41@aol.com
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 Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2007 12:10 am Post subject: PING George (interesting pin chuck offer) |
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George - a couple of questions if you don't mind.
Are you using some kind of English/Swedish/German made pin chuck, or a
Taiwanese model sold at Craft Supplies and Penn State?
I went to a demo about 6-7 years or so ago where the demonstrator used
his pin chuck for roughing all the time. To show us, he took a chunk
of log wood and drilled a hole in it with a spade bit and cordless
drill, then mounted it on the lathe and pushed the tailstock up to it
as an assist through roughing. He claimed he only used the drive spur
for spindles after he started using the pin chuck.
Worked great, and it was probably a 15# piece of wood. I was really
impressed. That little bitty chuck held like a claw.
His point was that with all the roughing he did he was tired of
sharpening his drive spurs only to have them slip around on the bark
and green wood anyway. So the pin chuck was his solution. The
problem was at the time that the one he used was about $140, so I
figured I would just keep a file handy for my spur.
But last week someone posted a link on WC that had Amazon advertising
them REALLY cheap. Check this out:
http://tinyurl.com/2jezdx
Now if I am reading that correctly, I will still have to buy the taper
to put into the chuck so that I can mount it. But at $12, it would
seem hard to beat.
If I could locate a taper only at a good price I would probably buy a
couple jaws and tapers.
Any thoughts?
Anyone else? Know of a good source for tapers?
Robert |
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George
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| Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2007 1:16 am Post subject: Re: PING George (interesting pin chuck offer) |
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<nailshooter41@aol.com> wrote in message
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| Quote: | George - a couple of questions if you don't mind.
Are you using some kind of English/Swedish/German made pin chuck, or a
Taiwanese model sold at Craft Supplies and Penn State?
I went to a demo about 6-7 years or so ago where the demonstrator used
his pin chuck for roughing all the time. To show us, he took a chunk
of log wood and drilled a hole in it with a spade bit and cordless
drill, then mounted it on the lathe and pushed the tailstock up to it
as an assist through roughing. He claimed he only used the drive spur
for spindles after he started using the pin chuck.
Worked great, and it was probably a 15# piece of wood. I was really
impressed. That little bitty chuck held like a claw.
His point was that with all the roughing he did he was tired of
sharpening his drive spurs only to have them slip around on the bark
and green wood anyway. So the pin chuck was his solution. The
problem was at the time that the one he used was about $140, so I
figured I would just keep a file handy for my spur.
But last week someone posted a link on WC that had Amazon advertising
them REALLY cheap. Check this out:
http://tinyurl.com/2jezdx
Now if I am reading that correctly, I will still have to buy the taper
to put into the chuck so that I can mount it. But at $12, it would
seem hard to beat.
If I could locate a taper only at a good price I would probably buy a
couple jaws and tapers.
Any thoughts?
Anyone else? Know of a good source for tapers?
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Mine was ~$70 from bestwoodtools.com. Though the original was one of the
forms of my "Masterchuck," a pre-scroll type from the UK. Current
unidirectional model
http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d160/GoodOnesGone/Chuck-Sheet.jpg is less
likely to roll over with soft wet woods and starting shock than the first, a
bi-directional type more akin to the metalworkers' pin chuck.
http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d160/GoodOnesGone/Old-Chuck.jpg Works
great, just as you said, one inch hole, tap and go. Leaving the pillar in
while drying provides a quick center and hold for re-truing.
Examples of roughs.
http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d160/GoodOnesGone/SpaltedCurlyYellow.jpg
Imagine the others would work. I use the pin jaws on my chuck for smaller
stuff not deep enough for the long standalone. Own a chuck? |
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Prometheus
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| Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2007 1:46 am Post subject: Re: PING George (interesting pin chuck offer) |
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On Fri, 08 Jun 2007 12:10:55 -0700, "nailshooter41@aol.com"
<nailshooter41@aol.com> wrote:
| Quote: | But last week someone posted a link on WC that had Amazon advertising
them REALLY cheap. Check this out:
http://tinyurl.com/2jezdx
Now if I am reading that correctly, I will still have to buy the taper
to put into the chuck so that I can mount it. But at $12, it would
seem hard to beat.
If I could locate a taper only at a good price I would probably buy a
couple jaws and tapers.
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You'll need to find out what the taper is on the other side, where it
fits into the pin chuck.
Grizzly sells a pretty wide selection of tapers on their website- when
I bought my jacob's chuck for the tailstock from them, it was just a
matter of matching the chuck's recess to the MT with the matching
"head" on it- in my case, it was MT#2 on one side, and JT#22 (IIRC) on
the other.
If memory serves, I believe it cost about $10, and works fine. Hard
to have many quality issues with something that is just a tapered bit
of metal. It does not have a threaded end for a drawbolt (as the
description says it requires) but I don't imagine that drilling and
tapping a single hole is too far beyond anyone's reach.
Contact the manufacturer to find out what you need- while you're
right, and I don't see a MT2 in there anywhere either, it almost looks
like the thing in the back could be a drawbolt that has been cut off
to make it fit in the picture. That's often a frustrating thing to do
if you're in a hurry- but I've found that most places will eventually
get back to you if you're willing to wait a week or two for a
response, and they should be able to tell you what is included or
required for sure.
| Quote: | Anyone else? Know of a good source for tapers?
Robert |
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nailshooter41@aol.com
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| Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2007 5:09 am Post subject: Re: PING George (interesting pin chuck offer) |
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On Jun 8, 3:46 pm, Prometheus <prometh...@NOSPAMcharter.net> wrote:
| Quote: | Contact the manufacturer to find out what you need
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Mulling that over, you are probably right. The vendor in this case is
Penn State, as the little chucks are NOT an amazon product. I am sure
that if I call amazon (might still do it anyway!) that they will just
read back the ad to me.
Knowing Penn State, they may have the tapers as well.
Hmmmm..... good thoughts, P.
Robert |
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nailshooter41@aol.com
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| Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2007 5:09 am Post subject: Re: PING George (interesting pin chuck offer) |
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On Jun 8, 3:16 pm, "George" <geo...@home.net> wrote:
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| Quote: | Imagine the others would work. I use the pin jaws on my chuck for smaller
stuff not deep enough for the long standalone. Own a chuck?- Hide quoted text -
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I have a old Nova chuck, and a couple of Vicmarcs. I was selling
enough lamps that I bought the second one and outfitted with these
jaws permanently to speed production:
http://tinyurl.com/23b2u2
They were one of the best buys I had made for my lamp turning. I can
turn the lamp shape between centers, leave a tenon ring on the bottom
of the lamp to clamp it with, then finish the tip and the sides
(profile). Still in the factory equipped chuck, I drill out the hole
for the lamp itself with the tailstock with a forstner bit to the
proper depth to hold the lamp itself. Then I can take the lamp blank
off the chuck with the factory jaw and reverse mount it on the chuck
with the long jaws. Then I cut sand and finish the bottom.
Thanks for the speedy reply and good info. I am thinking I may have
to jump on a couple of those.
Robert |
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