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which chuck ?

Postby max power » 16 Mar 2020, 11:49

I'm looking to purchase a chuck to securely hold hubs for wooden wheels while I finish them off and bore them for the metal axles. They're roughly 9" long and 6" diameter.
The ones I've been looking at are the Oneway Stronghold, Sorby Patriot and Axminster Evolution. Is the Oneway worth the extra money and which is the better of the other two or are there others I should consider ?
I'm currently using a big engineering chuck and it doesn't hold very well
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Re: which chuck ?

Postby 9fingers » 16 Mar 2020, 13:12

max power wrote:I'm looking to purchase a chuck to securely hold hubs for wooden wheels while I finish them off and bore them for the metal axles. They're roughly 9" long and 6" diameter.
The ones I've been looking at are the Oneway Stronghold, Sorby Patriot and Axminster Evolution. Is the Oneway worth the extra money and which is the better of the other two or are there others I should consider ?
I'm currently using a big engineering chuck and it doesn't hold very well


Bearing in mind I’m an engineer not a woodturner, I’d be looking to do the boring and end facing early in the process an from then on work on the outside cylinder/barrel either between centres or on a mandrel

woodspinners may have views on the products you mention. We have at least one very experience wood turner here who will hopefully spot this soon.
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Re: which chuck ?

Postby Merlin » 16 Mar 2020, 17:35

I can only comment on the Oneway Stronghold as that is what I use, it is very good and has done all I have asked of it.
The different jaws that I use are all good together with the screw.
The only fault I can mention is on my Wadkin RS they only supplied a spindle adaptor that had both a R/H and L/H thread in it, in the end I had one made with just a r/h thread cut.

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Re: which chuck ?

Postby Woodster » 16 Mar 2020, 18:23

I think it partly depends what lathe it’s going on. I’ve tried a couple of different ones and I highly rate Axminster chucks particularly on Axminster lathes. The registration etc is spot on and the quality of the stainless steel bodies is unmatched I reckon. I have the SK100 which replaced an earlier one I had on another lathe. For your job you’ll likely want the bigger version.
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Re: which chuck ?

Postby max power » 16 Mar 2020, 18:56

Thanks everyone, is your RS an 1"3/8 x 6tpi spindle Merlin ? Ive measured mine and its just shy of 4 threads per 1/2" so is that classed as 6 or 8 tpi ?
It was the Axminster Evolution 114 I was looking at Woodster .
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Re: which chuck ?

Postby DaveL » 16 Mar 2020, 19:20

I have 4 of the Axminster chucks.
2 of them I bought for use on the old Perform lathe I started out with. They are the 80 mm and 100 mm with 1"*8 threads, they not stainless steel. I do have an adaptor so I can use them on my large Jet lathe that I upgraded to.
The newer 2 are the 114 mm with M33*3.5 threads, these are the new stainless steel. They are much nicer than the older chucks, very smooth in operation. I have a large selection of jaws for them and have been very please with how they work.

I have never used the other chucks mentioned so cannot give any comparison, sorry.
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Re: which chuck ?

Postby Woodster » 16 Mar 2020, 21:17

I should have mentioned that I did also have a Record Power chuck for my lathe and whilst nice enough for the money it didn’t fit the M33 X 3.5 shaft on my lathe quite as well as the Axminster so I sold it on. Axminster jaws are also nicely made and the last set of gripper jaws I got were only £5 on their specials table during a factory show round, just because they’re the older black ones!
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Re: which chuck ?

Postby Merlin » 16 Mar 2020, 21:42

Yes mine is 1 3/8 x6,I think they did do other sizes but Ive not seen any.
Yours sounds the same.
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Re: which chuck ?

Postby max power » 16 Mar 2020, 22:16

Thanks Merlin
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Re: which chuck ?

Postby max power » 18 Mar 2020, 17:19

I've ended up ordering the Vicmark 150 from Australia as it isn't available over here.
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Re: which chuck ?

Postby Woodster » 18 Mar 2020, 18:36

max power wrote:I've ended up ordering the Vicmark 150 from Australia as it isn't available over here.


Is that the one that tightens the opposite way to all other chucks?
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Re: which chuck ?

Postby max power » 19 Mar 2020, 00:56

It tightens as normal but its also got a facility to rotate it to move the jaws in or out fast.
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Re: which chuck ?

Postby Woodster » 19 Mar 2020, 12:29

Sounds good. ;)
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