woodturnerEric
Established Member
I`ve looked at the new Axminster chuck, and contacted them about the locking method,and its shortcomings with alot of lathes,and was told there`s no plans to change the design as the new method has a greater torque load with heavy objects and deceleration and that most people took their work off the chuck to carve/decorate it anyway,So I`ll be sticking with my 7yr old Versa Chuck,as you have the ability to use so many jaws from different manufacturers,and as for shortcoming of the Versa Chuck,I haven`t found any yet ,i do miniature work to very large turnings and it copes with everything I put in it,there have been some people who have had probs with concentricity,when I bought a new backplate foe my new lathe,it run out about 1/2mm,I moved the backplate clockwise one bolthole and it cured the runout,there is one thing with this chuck you have to make sure you do when changing backplates,make sure every piece of dirt and dust is thoroughly removed or the new plate just wont bed down properly as there isn`t much clearence between the plate and the internal workings of it,regards,
Eric.
Eric.
