Does anyone here use an 8" chuck on their heavy 10? Seems like 6 is the norm and I dont want to put a chuck thats too big for the lathe, seeing as its almost 45 lbs.
Any pics of an 8" chuck on a heavy 10 to get a sense of the size?
Not even on a nominal 10", actual 12.5" 10EE, and ...just pulled an 8" /200 mm OEM French "Handy" off the HBX-360-BC a nominal 14" swing, US measure in favor of nominal 7 1/4" / 170 mm SCA's.
The issue is not the mass.
As mentioned, the jaw stick-out puts limits on diameter of what can be gripped before something hits. On the larger Cazeneuve, it was the sliding shield at the spindle nose, next the front of the cross, both long before jaws would have reached the bed ways.
The other challenge is that larger diameter chucks also tend to have both a deeper body and taller jaws.
A 10EE only has 20 of "daylight" c-to-c to begin with, the 360-HBX 27" rather than the 30" of the ones with simpler TS.
Far less on either if there is tooling eating out of it in the TS, rather than just a centre.
Most light SB tens actually have more long-axis daylight than my "mediums" do.
A 6" is usually plenty, especially if you also have a faceplate and know how to use it to solve edge-case problems.
