PING George (interesting pin chuck offer)

George - a couple of questions if you don't mind.

Are you using some kind of English/Swedish/German made pin chuck, or a Taiwanese model sold at Craft Supplies and Penn State?

I went to a demo about 6-7 years or so ago where the demonstrator used his pin chuck for roughing all the time. To show us, he took a chunk of log wood and drilled a hole in it with a spade bit and cordless drill, then mounted it on the lathe and pushed the tailstock up to it as an assist through roughing. He claimed he only used the drive spur for spindles after he started using the pin chuck.

Worked great, and it was probably a 15# piece of wood. I was really impressed. That little bitty chuck held like a claw.

His point was that with all the roughing he did he was tired of sharpening his drive spurs only to have them slip around on the bark and green wood anyway. So the pin chuck was his solution. The problem was at the time that the one he used was about $140, so I figured I would just keep a file handy for my spur.

But last week someone posted a link on WC that had Amazon advertising them REALLY cheap. Check this out:

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Now if I am reading that correctly, I will still have to buy the taper to put into the chuck so that I can mount it. But at $12, it would seem hard to beat.

If I could locate a taper only at a good price I would probably buy a couple jaws and tapers.

Any thoughts?

Anyone else? Know of a good source for tapers?

Robert

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nailshooter41
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Mine was ~$70 from bestwoodtools.com. Though the original was one of the forms of my "Masterchuck," a pre-scroll type from the UK. Current unidirectional model

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is less likely to roll over with soft wet woods and starting shock than the first, a bi-directional type more akin to the metalworkers' pin chuck.
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Works great, just as you said, one inch hole, tap and go. Leaving the pillar in while drying provides a quick center and hold for re-truing. Examples of roughs.
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Imagine the others would work. I use the pin jaws on my chuck for smaller stuff not deep enough for the long standalone. Own a chuck?

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George

You'll need to find out what the taper is on the other side, where it fits into the pin chuck.

Grizzly sells a pretty wide selection of tapers on their website- when I bought my jacob's chuck for the tailstock from them, it was just a matter of matching the chuck's recess to the MT with the matching "head" on it- in my case, it was MT#2 on one side, and JT#22 (IIRC) on the other.

If memory serves, I believe it cost about $10, and works fine. Hard to have many quality issues with something that is just a tapered bit of metal. It does not have a threaded end for a drawbolt (as the description says it requires) but I don't imagine that drilling and tapping a single hole is too far beyond anyone's reach.

Contact the manufacturer to find out what you need- while you're right, and I don't see a MT2 in there anywhere either, it almost looks like the thing in the back could be a drawbolt that has been cut off to make it fit in the picture. That's often a frustrating thing to do if you're in a hurry- but I've found that most places will eventually get back to you if you're willing to wait a week or two for a response, and they should be able to tell you what is included or required for sure.

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Prometheus

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I have a old Nova chuck, and a couple of Vicmarcs. I was selling enough lamps that I bought the second one and outfitted with these jaws permanently to speed production:

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They were one of the best buys I had made for my lamp turning. I can turn the lamp shape between centers, leave a tenon ring on the bottom of the lamp to clamp it with, then finish the tip and the sides (profile). Still in the factory equipped chuck, I drill out the hole for the lamp itself with the tailstock with a forstner bit to the proper depth to hold the lamp itself. Then I can take the lamp blank off the chuck with the factory jaw and reverse mount it on the chuck with the long jaws. Then I cut sand and finish the bottom. Thanks for the speedy reply and good info. I am thinking I may have to jump on a couple of those.

Robert

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nailshooter41

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Mulling that over, you are probably right. The vendor in this case is Penn State, as the little chucks are NOT an amazon product. I am sure that if I call amazon (might still do it anyway!) that they will just read back the ad to me.

Knowing Penn State, they may have the tapers as well.

Hmmmm..... good thoughts, P.

Robert

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nailshooter41
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Knowing Penn State, they may have the tapers as well.

Hmmmm..... good thoughts, P.

MSC has a good slection of taper combinations. Import or US made.

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Rick Samuel

Robert, That's not a pin chuck. It will screw on to a 1-8 drive spindle. You could get the Oneway tailstock dohickey that has MT on one end, 1-8 on the other, meant to swap chucks end for end.

Drill a shallow hole, then press the stock over the spinning chuck to secure it. Not sure how well it holds larger stuff -- it's held together with an o-ring. I have two, direct from PSI.

Bill

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BillinDetroit

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