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    As you might know, I've been having a slight runout problem with the latest Nova chuck purchased. The "powers that be" are working on the situation to get it resolved, but I am seeing a drop in quality at the Teknatool camp, so with that in mind I would like my next chuck purchase to be of better quality...what would you guys suggest?

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    Hi Ed Vic Marc comes to mind shame the pocket doesn't hold enough $$ for it Gary Pye has a series H&F has some

    Guess the thread insert wasn't the problem after all

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    Whellin, got a e-mail from Roger Durst at Craft Supplies yesterday. They still haven't received their shipment of inserts from Tek. He is also going out to AAW until next Tuesday, so I'm not expecting to hear back until sometime late next week about him testing and sending me an insert that runs true with the chuck body.

    So, you say Vicmark...are the Nova jaws compatible?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ed Reiss View Post
    Whellin, got a e-mail from Roger Durst at Craft Supplies yesterday. They still haven't received their shipment of inserts from Tek. He is also going out to AAW until next Tuesday, so I'm not expecting to hear back until sometime late next week about him testing and sending me an insert that runs true with the chuck body.

    So, you say Vicmark...are the Nova jaws compatible?

    I don't think so but Jim Carrol could answer that one for sure
    Jim has this economy one Ed not a Vic Marc

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    Ed if you want to buy a quality chuck go for the Vicmarc range.

    Steer away from the cheaper alternatives, tou will finish up worse than the nova.


    None of the jaws are compatible between vicmarc and nova. There are some that use adaptors but this can cause problems with alignment and jaw travel
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    Don't know what you have available to you over there Ed but I have 3 chucks.

    The 100mm Vicmark was spot on straight out of the box.

    The 120mm Vermec was spot on straight out of the box and it also accepts Vicmark and Teknatool jaws.

    The 100m chinese copy of a Vicmark ran like a Jean Francios Escoulen turning - had to get a geniune Vicmark adaptor to get it running true and it's still a pile of $hit!

    My 2 bobs worth! (about 2 dimes to you Ed )
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    try the oneway.com chuck made in canada ,nice gear .tecknatool used to be good also have 4 of them .once you start with one brand you have to stick with it cheers bob

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    Ed you got me to the point I went and checked one of mine newest one

    Body of the chuck runs out, this was checked between the chuck key and jaw slides
    jaws don't in closed tight mode,
    shaft is fine checked with the dial guage
    I have been suspect of the adaptor for some time I will remove it and try the other adaptor from the other G3 which is older when my head clears (damn colds)

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    shouldnt matter if you dont remove piece from chuck if you do mark both sides to get it back where it was. that is assuming its not to bad ?go carefully bob

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    Ed, I've got 2 VM120's now and they both ran true straight from the box . Bought a G3 because I was too tight to pay the extra $$$ for a VM90 and I've regretted it ever since, the finish on their jaws is atrocious. I also have one of these, excellent value for money (also available from Jim Carroll).
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    I was impressed with the quality of the Vermec stuff. Bit silly for me to post here really since I don't have one, but my next chuck will be from them for sure. I have a SuperNova chuck and it seems fine, but the lathe is approx 4 years old now (made in NZ) and the chuck came with it. Does anyone know if Teknatool chucks are now made in China?

    Cheers,

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    I hesitate to contradict TTIT but the Vermec 4" will take both VM 90/100 and Nova jaws but the bigger one only VM 120/140? http://www.vermec.com/id1.html

    Vermec were working on getting Craftsupplies to stock their stuff IIRC.

    All the stuff of theirs that I have is well made.
    Cheers, Ern

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    The one good thing about [(pick 1) shining, smiling, lucky, happy] [(pick 1) mongoose, dragon, tiger, diamond] brand chucks is that when you go back to using your Teknatool you think "Hey! This isn't so bad after all!"
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    Frank, AFAIK, Teknatool transferred manufacturing from New Zealand to China some time last year. I have a SN2 and a G3 made in NZ and have no problems. One day I'll see a Vermec chuck in the flesh to make comparisons . . .
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