Thread: Chuck on a tailstock?

Very usefull for positioning a natural edge bowl on a vacuum chuck.This is a good price.I paid $50 for one that looks identicle from Mcjings a year ago.
Ted

, works brilliantly

Not having a vacuum chuck, I hadn't thought of that particular use.

I originally bought mine for ensuring accurate reverse chucking but I've found a few other uses, including mounting irregular (not necessarily turned) shapes on a faceplate in the tailstock, for drilling or turning circular patterns in the face.

eg. drilling the centre of X-shaped "feet" for a lamp-stand, that was to big to spin w/out hitting the ways & too awkward to fit on my way-too-small drill press.

Yes, a good price ! I use mine heaps, mostly with 30X3.5mm nuts for custom live centres like theseS6300256.JPGS6300255.JPGS6300254.JPGS6300253.JPG Cheers Phil.

Hi All,
My Turner Friend paid a lot more than the $50 if I remember.

So, can I get a No.2MT x 10TPI, for the same price.
May have to ask Jim, CWS.

That was a great thought, but as I don't do Bowls, it still may come in handy.

Originally Posted by issatree

Hi All,

So, can I get a No.2MT x 10TPI, for the same price.
May have to ask Jim, CWS.

http://www.garypye.com/Lathe-s/Acces...ptor-p712.html

You might pick one up Jing's for $22 from memory.

The idea seems good. I have one but not used it yet


Dave the turning cowboy

turning wood into art

Nova make an m2 that fits in the tailstock for their chucks to go on for the reason above and it doesn't have the add on shown
. Sorry if that is not clear I mean for putting your chuck with bowl attached into the tailstock to line it up on centre for a vaccume chuck or other means of holding in the headstock

When I turn a bowl I like to make the foot to suit me, and not be dictated to by the limitations of a scroll chuck. I use a screw chuck fitted to the top of the bowl blank and turn the back, including the foot. Then I screw a sacrificial block to a face place and turn it to the same size and shape as the foot of the bowl. That tool is now fitted to the tail stock morse taper and the bowl, still on the screw chuck is screwed onto the tail stock. The bowl blank is now glued to the sacrificial waste block that is still screwed to the head stock. A very accurate procedure.

I find it tremendously useful for accurately gluing the two halves of a segmented hollow form together, a very useful tool.

Jim

I use my Vermec built job for all of the above but....

Originally Posted by pommyphil

Yes, a good price ! I use mine heaps, mostly with 30X3.5mm nuts for custom live centres like these
Cheers Phil.

... hadn't thought of using it for big live centres like that - as if I don't have enough to do already

Received the doodad today and used it already.

The ideas of everyone here are all extremely good.

I'll definitely use it for:

- mounting a chuck to a bowl after turning the tennon (mine do tend to wobble and I can never get them aligned Just Right)
- powderpost reminded me of hollow and solid spheres. I've been hankering to make some for a while and this will let me do so.
- making a few of those cone chucks (thanks pommyphil)
- mounting a bowl onto my soon-to-be-made vacuum chuck (per another recent thread and thanks to Turnerted)

Not sure what SkewChiDamn meant, I'll perhaps wait for an example?

What an incredibly versatile addition.