How to stop chucks from coming out...
I have a few useful drive chucks, one Jacobs chuck, and one chuck with a small faceplate and a screw sticking out from the centre. These can be very handy for turning spinning tops, but I have the problem that the chucks come loose from the headstock every minute or so when turning, which is really annoying. I'm ramming them into the head of the lathe pretty hard and they are really solid when I start, but with the work of the chisel, they loosen up real quick and come out. Anyone got any tricks for stopping this? Apart from using the tailstock, which I do, but once I do the point of the top, this needs to come away. The other obvious answer to this is to do the point last, but sometimes I want to touch up some of the rest after the point is done. Any other ideas, or have I already given the good answers to my own question?