Thread: Keyless chucks

I tried a couple of keyless chucks on the drill press and went back to key chucks.

Roger

Haven't tried his keyless chucks, but have purchased his keyed chuck, both 1/4" and 3/8", very happy with them. In fact I am about to order some more.

Originally Posted by rogerbaker

I tried a couple of keyless chucks on the drill press and went back to key chucks.

Roger

Same here, I've always had trouble with the keyless chucks on my Metabo drills jamming when using 1/2" and larger drills in steel. I've replaced them with keyed chucks in both cases.

I have a 1/2" keyless chuck on my drillpress and have found no problems either with it holding very small bits or larger ones. I bought it off eBay. Although cannot remember who I bought it from, it looks the same as this item 1/2 keyless drill chuck MT2 shank arbor (eBay item 110608578496 end time 07-Dec-10 21:20:50 AEDST) : Industrial After basking in the convenience and superior gripping power of this well-made keyless chuck, I would not go back to a keyed chuck.

That keyless chuck looks the same as ones at McJings for about the same price.

I bought one for a Carbatec pedestal drill - very happy with it.

personal preference really.
I have not used those in particular, but have used many of both types in many hand drills and drill presses and lathes.

I prefer keyed in drill presses and lathes, thats just me. frustrating when the keyless wont let go of the bit. You can use c-spanners on some chucks when they grab, but then its just like having a chuck key i figure. usually managed to keep requiured chuck key with the machine
In hand drill, I found keyless to be more convenient if changing drill bits frequesntly on one job and nothing worse than getting up a ladder, in the back of a machine or somewhere confined or tricky to get in/out and realising you left the chuck key on the bench or in your toolbox, or out the back in your ute.

I bought the one in Blu_Rock's link. It had more runout than I would like. I forget how much now. When I queried it he said spec was .0048". That's .12mm. Since I complained he's removed the word precision. I found the maker's website. It seems they have two tolerances. Clearly I got the cheaper one. My advice is ask first.

What I will say about it though is that it seems to grip well, yet is never hard to release. I would buy one again, IF I could find the higher spec one AND it was reasonably priced.

Originally Posted by Mr Brush

That keyless chuck looks the same as ones at McJings for about the same price.

I bought one for a Carbatec pedestal drill - very happy with it.

I have two of these McJing chucks, one on my pedestal drill and one on on my lathe. They both work really well up to about 10 mm diameter, above that I switch to a keyed chuck.

One of the jaws snapped in one of the chucks and McJings replaced it in very quick order.

Hello Eskimo,
I bought a 1mm-13mm keyless chuck for my lathe about three years ago from Ebay seller "bsello168" . I have been very happy with it. He has one for sale "Buy it now" for $25.30 plus $10.06 postage . It also comes with a No.2 morse arbor. I dont know how that compares with your prices. I bought it with the view that if it was a dud it would not break me, but it has worked perfectly.
Regards,
Russell

thanks for the replies guys.