Tazmaniandevil
Established Member
Howdy doody folks. I have been lurking on the edges here for a wee whiley, gleaning information and such.
I always enjoyed turning at school and have hankered after a lathe for many years now. I was recently given an old Myford ML8 wood lathe, complete with the metal cabinet it is mounted on, and have purchased some beginners tools. So far I have been chomping away at some green logs I have picked up, mainly birch, and some old pine door frames.
The lathe also came with some assorted bits and bobs including a selection of live centres and one fixed and one rotating dead centre, a jacobs chuck for drilling, 2 faceplates (one left hand, one right hand thread), and a couple of chucks.
One chuck screws on to the headstock and consists of 2 semicircular tapered plates which clamp a tenon by means of a screw on collar much like the lid of a jar. There is probably a name for this, and if I remember I will take a photo to aid my description.
The other chuck is a 4" 3-jaw Pratt metalworking chuck.
Now the question..... is there any way this Pratt chuck can be adapted for use as a scroll chuck? Or should I try flogging it on eBay and put the money toward a scroll chuck?
Thanks in advance for any input.
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I always enjoyed turning at school and have hankered after a lathe for many years now. I was recently given an old Myford ML8 wood lathe, complete with the metal cabinet it is mounted on, and have purchased some beginners tools. So far I have been chomping away at some green logs I have picked up, mainly birch, and some old pine door frames.
The lathe also came with some assorted bits and bobs including a selection of live centres and one fixed and one rotating dead centre, a jacobs chuck for drilling, 2 faceplates (one left hand, one right hand thread), and a couple of chucks.
One chuck screws on to the headstock and consists of 2 semicircular tapered plates which clamp a tenon by means of a screw on collar much like the lid of a jar. There is probably a name for this, and if I remember I will take a photo to aid my description.
The other chuck is a 4" 3-jaw Pratt metalworking chuck.
Now the question..... is there any way this Pratt chuck can be adapted for use as a scroll chuck? Or should I try flogging it on eBay and put the money toward a scroll chuck?
Thanks in advance for any input.
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