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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
 
max power":3oc76ytj said:
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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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.
Bob
 
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.

Merlin
 
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.
 
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 .
 
I have 4 of the Axminster chucks.[emoji849]
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.
 
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!
 
Yes mine is 1 3/8 x6,I think they did do other sizes but Ive not seen any.
Yours sounds the same.
 
I've ended up ordering the Vicmark 150 from Australia as it isn't available over here.
 
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I've ended up ordering the Vicmark 150 from Australia as it isn't available over here.
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Is that the one that tightens the opposite way to all other chucks?
 
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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