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Doug wrote:A friend bought one earlier in the year when they were on offer, it is a small chuck but his lathe doesn't have large capacities so ideal for him & he's pleased with it.
When you consider the cost of a normal sized chuck & 4 sets of jaws it's not a bad price at all.
TrimTheKing wrote:Doug wrote:A friend bought one earlier in the year when they were on offer, it is a small chuck but his lathe doesn't have large capacities so ideal for him & he's pleased with it.
When you consider the cost of a normal sized chuck & 4 sets of jaws it's not a bad price at all.
Thanks Doug
I don't/haven't done any chucked work thus far and my lathe is okay but not the biggest so this might do in terms of getting me moving forwards in that space. The thing that tempted me is the number of different items for the price. I know I could buy much better individual ones but that's a lot of options for decent money, just wanted a view on whether they are decent quality or not, which it sounds like they are (well not terrible at least..).
I'll ponder for the rest of the day.
Cheers to the rest of you for your inputs too. Appreciate the size comments but I've never done any chuck work so at the moment I don't want to spend loads in case it's something I don't do going forwards.
Cheers
Mark
9fingers wrote:TrimTheKing wrote:Doug wrote:A friend bought one earlier in the year when they were on offer, it is a small chuck but his lathe doesn't have large capacities so ideal for him & he's pleased with it.
When you consider the cost of a normal sized chuck & 4 sets of jaws it's not a bad price at all.
Thanks Doug
I don't/haven't done any chucked work thus far and my lathe is okay but not the biggest so this might do in terms of getting me moving forwards in that space. The thing that tempted me is the number of different items for the price. I know I could buy much better individual ones but that's a lot of options for decent money, just wanted a view on whether they are decent quality or not, which it sounds like they are (well not terrible at least..).
I'll ponder for the rest of the day.
Cheers to the rest of you for your inputs too. Appreciate the size comments but I've never done any chuck work so at the moment I don't want to spend loads in case it's something I don't do going forwards.
Cheers
Mark
Maybe a sanity check against the AXi ones? Size for price etc.
I've seen those being made and the quality is top notch. The story they like to tell is that they could not get the quality they want buying from the far East so set up a machine shop to make their own. Their set up is impressive.
9fingers wrote:
Maybe a sanity check against the AXi ones? Size for price etc.
I've seen those being made and the quality is top notch. The story they like to tell is that they could not get the quality they want buying from the far East so set up a machine shop to make their own. Their set up is impressive.
Doug wrote:Really excellent chucks the Nova's Phil I had the big brother of the G3 the Super Nova 2 supplied with my lathe, I tend to keep my pin jaws on it these days.
As with most chucks the ball-ache is un-screwing & re-screwing the machine screws when wanting to change jaws which is why I like the Versa chuck as the jaws just scroll on & off.
Phil wrote:
Doug, I surfed the Versachuck, from the writeup seems very good. Just cant find a YT of a demo.
Doug wrote:Phil wrote:
Doug, I surfed the Versachuck, from the writeup seems very good. Just cant find a YT of a demo.
No I couldn't find anything on YT Phil which is a shame, if I get chance I'll see if I can video mine
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