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Brass_Machine:
The 1/2 sized part looks pretty good. I bet you are anxious to cut the full size part.

Can you get a refund from Grizzly? Or you can just post it for sale.

Perhaps you could machine up a spacer ring? Mount that on the nose and then the adapter?

--- Quote from: NeoTech on October 10, 2013, 04:08:51 AM ---http://www.the-planet.org/6EM7.html << this your speaking about maybe? =)

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Yup. That is at least one of them.

Eric

ibuildstuff4u:
I don't mind machining a back plate when mounting a new chuck, but I really shouldn't have to cut into a brand new Bison Chuck just to make it fit. I already drilled holes into this back plate so I can't return it so I will just make up a spacer and keep it for a face plate for future projects. I will see if I can find a deeper back plate to fit the new chuck when this project is done as I really want to keep the chuck stock at this time.

I spent a few hours in the shop and made up a spacer for the back plate. I only had aluminum on hand but it should work just fine. Hopefully I will be able to machine one of the full sized parts tomorrow night!

Here are some more pictures.

Dale P.

ibuildstuff4u:
Eric, I used your idea about putting the spacer between the nose of the lathe and back plate. I originally was going to place the spacer between the face plate and part, but your idea was a lot better.

Thanks!
Dale P.

Brass_Machine:
Awesome job Dale!

Eric

ibuildstuff4u:
As you can see I had to switch around my chuck from regular jaws to reverse jaws a few times to make this part due to the small 4" chuck that I have which is why I'm changing both of my lathes to a 5" chuck. Hopefully that will keep me from having to change out the jaws as much in the future. I'm putting a Bison brand chuck on the CNC lathe, but just a china brand on the 9X20 as I hope to replace this lathe some day with something a little nicer.

Any one buy chucks from CDCO? Do you think they are the same ones offered by companies such as Grizzly and Little Machine Shop.com? I'm guessing they all come from the same factory in china.

Dale P.

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