Domodude17
Aluminum
- Joined
- Aug 14, 2017
The 3 jaw that came with the 9A is in poor shape, so i've exclusively been using the 4 jaw. Getting tired of manually dialing everything, i'm looking into getting a new 3 jaw. As near as I can tell, the recommended size for a 9" lathe is a 5" 3 jaw chuck. Shars has a few in this size, one without 2 piece jaws for ~$80, and one with 2 piece jaws for ~$170.
It seems like the advantages of the 2 piece jaws are that you don't need to take the jaws out to flip them around, don't have to keep track of a 2nd set of jaws, and could make replaceable soft jaws for it. I don't know if I can buy soft jaws or not for the chuck with plain jaws, and it'd definitely be nice to have this capability. Thoughts?
It seems like the advantages of the 2 piece jaws are that you don't need to take the jaws out to flip them around, don't have to keep track of a 2nd set of jaws, and could make replaceable soft jaws for it. I don't know if I can buy soft jaws or not for the chuck with plain jaws, and it'd definitely be nice to have this capability. Thoughts?