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    Lathe Chuck Questions

    FWIW, I can mount my PB 4 jaw on the back plate from the hardly used 3 jaw that came with my lathe. In my case the mounting bolt PCD is actually near the OD of the chuck so well away from the mounting pins. Trivia: The back plate is stamped “Victor Holmes Sons - made in Canada” Now, when I...
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    Lathe Chuck Questions

    Interesting. I’ve maybe used a 5C once. My Myford has a nice set of collets that go up to 1/2” so that’s where my experience comes from. I was putting 5C in the fast running group! The machine does have a nice rack for a load of collets……. The question of what it came with was to get an...
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    Lathe Chuck Questions

    Thanks gents, appreciate the replies. @YotaBota , my machine is a Series 2000, 1120. By the time it got to me it came with a rather abused 6" 3 jaw "Victor Holmes Sons - made in England" and a better looking but unidentified 8" 3 jaw without a mounting plate plus a dog plate so a bit of a...
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    Lathe Chuck Questions

    Coming back to this, thanks @whydontu for your thoughts on the two piece jaws. The flexibility of being able to make tailored jaws or replacing worn jaws is appealing. Now to the other detail. For a lathe with a swing of 11” like the SM1120’ would they have come with a 6” 3 jaw chuck? 4 jaw...
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    Lathe Chuck Questions

    I'm starting to think about chucks for my recently acquired Standard Modern 1120 and a few questions have come out of that. First, for those of you out there with the same machine or similar in size, what size of 3 & 4 jaw chucks would have come with that machine or would be appropriately...
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    6" Pratt Burnerd 3-jaw chuck - $100 Victoria

    Perfect - if it was closer…..:confused: D :cool:
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    Upgrade on lathe and mill.

    Eastern trouble maker?! o_O I suppose I do make a few contraptions but that’s the point isn’t it? Always fun to poke the bear a bit and look at things from a different direction.:p Other folks may have different hardware but setting up the TTA on my Myford can be done more precisely than the...
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    Upgrade on lathe and mill.

    And the contrarian voice pipes up...........I've used mine for a bunch of things, a TTA is on the list of to do's for my recently acquired SM 1120. No Morse tapers yet but I have used it to cut a JT to mount a Jacobs chuck. D :cool:
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    Tool Drill Doctor Experience

    Thanks, I’ll have to follow that up. :) D :cool:
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    Tool Drill Doctor Experience

    @ChazzC Where do you get the aftermarket 220 grit wheels? D :cool:
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