You'll have to excuse me as I am not a whizz with lathes. I did use one while going to school but it was the cam-lock style and everything was there to make chips.
I picked up a lathe for my home and it has what I measure to be an A1-5 tapered spindle nose. Seller tossed in a 8" Buck chuck that was on an indexer for a mill. I popped the chuck off but now I have to make a backplate.
I'm having issues finding a reasonably priced semi-machined backplate in my taper size. I found one on a retail site but turned out to be discontinued. I don't have any other machines to make one from scratch. Wondering if someone can lead me into a direction on how to get a chuck mounted to this machine? Thanks.
I picked up a lathe for my home and it has what I measure to be an A1-5 tapered spindle nose. Seller tossed in a 8" Buck chuck that was on an indexer for a mill. I popped the chuck off but now I have to make a backplate.
I'm having issues finding a reasonably priced semi-machined backplate in my taper size. I found one on a retail site but turned out to be discontinued. I don't have any other machines to make one from scratch. Wondering if someone can lead me into a direction on how to get a chuck mounted to this machine? Thanks.
