#2 morse taper to 1" - 8

Hi J. Mark,

I'll take a guess that it's a 'headstock chuck'. They are hollow allowing for continuous feeding of narrow stock thru the spindles of metal lathes. They are expensive and not used much on wood lathes, but would be a useful accessory to have. I presume yours is a wood lathe.

I think a MT adapter would cost more than a Harbor Freight 1/2" Jacobs _type keyed chuck with a MT2 arbor (about $10). I find the H.F. ok for woodturning and suggest you consider one. Then you'd have the convenience of a headstock chuck that needs no drawbar plus a head/tailstock chuck. BTW, the H.F. arbor is soft and easily tapped for a 1/4" allthread drawbar.

Or.. maybe you just want an answer to your question. I don't have one. :)

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Hi Mark

What is the tread size on your lathe's head stock shaft, does the Jacobs chuck fit on there ? Don't just discard that chuck, if you have to buy one it's going to cost you a pretty penny, I've got some model numbers for what Jacobs calls special manufactured items, the 36B, 3/4"- 16 is listed at $242.70 and the 33BA 5/8"-16 at $111.20, I don't see a 1"-8 But assume the price will be similar or more. Now if you want a morse taper with thread, the best I can do for you is give you Busy Bee as a place that has morse tapers that have ground hard tapers and a 1" end on it, that is soft, so it can be machined, you could get one of those and have a machine shop cut the thread on it for you.

Have fun and take care Leo Van Der Loo