I live in Cape Town South Africa & am about to purchase a Supernova chuck & adapter for my lathe. The price is R1800 which works out to more than US$260. This is almost as much as I paid for my lathe! Is this a reasonable price? I don't mind spending on quality tools but this appears to be out of proportion to other equipment I've bought. What prices out there have other people paid?
Graeme Hayward
Hi Graeme Don't know what the currency conversion would be, but I got mine here in the UK for £130. ( British pounds ) last December. HTH.
Wally
Graeme, If you just "gotta" have a supernova try do a "Google" search and look for a place in Vancouver Canada. price is quite a bit below what you paid. A second alternative is go to the Penn State Industries site and look at their chucks. They have a Chinese knock off for about $45.00US and a house brand for not a whole lot more.
Deb
That place in Vancouver Canada is KMS Tools...
How come the teknatool site doesnt have all the Nova chucks that KMS does?(compact) the dovetail scraper is close to twice the price from the teknatool site, are the chucks the same?(more expensive then elsewhere). isnt there another Nova chuck called the talon, or something like that? is it made by teknatool too(they don't have it on their website either) in article Uq%Qb.274221$X%5.215563@pd7tw2no, James Barley at snipped-for-privacy@xemaps.com wrote on 1/25/04 7:02 PM:
The Talon is made by Oneway which is located in Ontario, Canada. The Oneway products are superior to the Nova products IMO but the Nova products are quite satisfactory and less expensive. A lot of good turners do a lot of good work with them. Billh
Sounds steep, but I have no idea what "comes with" beyond the adapter. Some sellers package with two or three sets of jaws, which would drive up the price. Some countries have import duties and taxes which would do the same. You've got a web's worth of answers to the first, but there is no answer to the second.
If you want some free advice, get the 25mm pin jaws, 50mm standard and 35 mm spigot jaws. The pin jaws are superb for roughing and for small work, and the 35mm spigot jaws have squared cutouts, unlike the 45mm, allowing a quick center chuck for square billets.
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