are the chucks that you stick a key in to tighten, suceptible to the problem I had with one that tightened by turning it, in theory the force of rotating the wood against the tools keeps it tight, but while trying to make some captive rings on a bowl, I had a really bad catch with the skew, and it tighted up to the point that the jaws were in odd positions. they dont slide in grooves, they are 4 pieces, with a spring around the outside, and a cone of metal in the middle, that forces them apart when you tighten it. what is the point of those unpowered sanders that some people use, that use disk's like a powered one, but just in the end of a piece of wood with a bearing. wouldnt you get less sanding, because it would rotate with the direction of the lathe?
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20 years ago