DCP
07-25-2012, 05:36 PM
I just dodged a BOOLIT! Well really a Lathe Chuck
I won a 6" Skinner 4006 South Bend Lathe Works from Ebay
It comes when I am in the hospital for 8 days.
So when I come home, I just screwed it on the lathe for fit. Turn on the lathe for 3 or 4 sec. looks good. I am exhausted.
Fast forward 2 weeks, I finally feel like doing something. So I am going to clean the rust off it. I take my piece of 1/2 plywood to protect the ways.
Start to unscrew the chuck. The chuck body falls on to the plywood. The adapter plate is still screwed to the lathe.
There is no fricken bolts in it. I just shutter to think what could have happened.
The bolt holes are 5/16-18 need 1 5/8" long. I do have some 1" ones but get this.
They wont go into the chuck body the bolt holes heads are .452 , the bolt head
is .465
So about 50 years ago did some one make the bolt holes head undersized?
Well that's enough for me today. I will work on this another day.
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I won a 6" Skinner 4006 South Bend Lathe Works from Ebay
It comes when I am in the hospital for 8 days.
So when I come home, I just screwed it on the lathe for fit. Turn on the lathe for 3 or 4 sec. looks good. I am exhausted.
Fast forward 2 weeks, I finally feel like doing something. So I am going to clean the rust off it. I take my piece of 1/2 plywood to protect the ways.
Start to unscrew the chuck. The chuck body falls on to the plywood. The adapter plate is still screwed to the lathe.
There is no fricken bolts in it. I just shutter to think what could have happened.
The bolt holes are 5/16-18 need 1 5/8" long. I do have some 1" ones but get this.
They wont go into the chuck body the bolt holes heads are .452 , the bolt head
is .465
So about 50 years ago did some one make the bolt holes head undersized?
Well that's enough for me today. I will work on this another day.
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