robatman
23rd November 2006, 10:44 AM
Hi all,
Well I know the GMC lathe has its limitations- most of them we cant do anything about! But I got a VM100 knock off from H&F and had previously been mounting it in the 4 jaw independant chuck. This was quite cumbersome (and damn near impossible to truly centre it) but I managed to turn a few bowls up to 10" and it handled no probs......
A few people here had said the thread of the GMC was incompatible with any scroll chucks, but i have found Vicmark does an 3/4" 16tpi insert that means now we can mount their chuck properly. (~$30)
Thought this might help a few GMC owners out there unwilling to own up to having such a shameful lathe and chuck options.
This buys us some time untill we all come to our senses and convert it into a disc sander and get an upgrade lathe.
Robert
Well I know the GMC lathe has its limitations- most of them we cant do anything about! But I got a VM100 knock off from H&F and had previously been mounting it in the 4 jaw independant chuck. This was quite cumbersome (and damn near impossible to truly centre it) but I managed to turn a few bowls up to 10" and it handled no probs......
A few people here had said the thread of the GMC was incompatible with any scroll chucks, but i have found Vicmark does an 3/4" 16tpi insert that means now we can mount their chuck properly. (~$30)
Thought this might help a few GMC owners out there unwilling to own up to having such a shameful lathe and chuck options.
This buys us some time untill we all come to our senses and convert it into a disc sander and get an upgrade lathe.
Robert