Paula
Titanium
- Joined
- Sep 16, 2005
- Location
- Indiana, USA
This post is to report on the high caliber of individuals that participate on this forum (and yes, to gloat just a little...)
Back in August, I received an email from a forum member ("patriot-mfg"), after he read one of my posts where I happened to mention that I don't have a faceplate for my lathe. He said, “I have one still in the original SB box that you can have if you would like.” Naturally, I was interested, and I asked him how much he wanted for it. “Just knowing it will be taken care of and used is good enough for me.” To make a long story short, he sent me a total of three faceplates, a chuck adapter, and 5” 3-jaw chuck! I practically had to twist his arm to let me pay for the shipping! Here’s what I received:
Without question, the star of the show is this “faceplate chuck”, which is South Bend’s catalog #CL2155NK, shipped in its original box, with all hardware, and even the packing ticket:
Notice that the step-blocks can be mounted in a variety of ways, such that the setscrews can apply clamping pressure inward, outward, or downward, and should prove handy for fixturing odd-shaped workpieces on the lathe. It’s 8” diameter, and very heavily constructed. The second faceplate is 7-3/8” diameter, and has six slots. The third faceplate is 6” diameter, and slotted for dog-driver duty. The 1-1/2”-8 chuck adapter is identical to the one on my 4-jaw independent chuck, and may come in handy on a future project where I need to mount something to the lathe spindle.
The 3-jaw chuck, though badly rusted, is actually fairly tight and smooth operating. Unfortunately, one of the jaws is “sprung” slightly, though overall I’d wager to say that this chuck is in better condition than the majority of chucks its size that sell on eBay for big bucks.
Of course, I had to clean everything up. The faceplates all got a light facing cut, though all ran nearly dead true without it. The hardware for the faceplate chuck was black oxided, and the other two faceplates were painted to match my lathe:
Many thanks to patriot-mfg!!
Paula
Back in August, I received an email from a forum member ("patriot-mfg"), after he read one of my posts where I happened to mention that I don't have a faceplate for my lathe. He said, “I have one still in the original SB box that you can have if you would like.” Naturally, I was interested, and I asked him how much he wanted for it. “Just knowing it will be taken care of and used is good enough for me.” To make a long story short, he sent me a total of three faceplates, a chuck adapter, and 5” 3-jaw chuck! I practically had to twist his arm to let me pay for the shipping! Here’s what I received:
Without question, the star of the show is this “faceplate chuck”, which is South Bend’s catalog #CL2155NK, shipped in its original box, with all hardware, and even the packing ticket:
Notice that the step-blocks can be mounted in a variety of ways, such that the setscrews can apply clamping pressure inward, outward, or downward, and should prove handy for fixturing odd-shaped workpieces on the lathe. It’s 8” diameter, and very heavily constructed. The second faceplate is 7-3/8” diameter, and has six slots. The third faceplate is 6” diameter, and slotted for dog-driver duty. The 1-1/2”-8 chuck adapter is identical to the one on my 4-jaw independent chuck, and may come in handy on a future project where I need to mount something to the lathe spindle.
The 3-jaw chuck, though badly rusted, is actually fairly tight and smooth operating. Unfortunately, one of the jaws is “sprung” slightly, though overall I’d wager to say that this chuck is in better condition than the majority of chucks its size that sell on eBay for big bucks.
Of course, I had to clean everything up. The faceplates all got a light facing cut, though all ran nearly dead true without it. The hardware for the faceplate chuck was black oxided, and the other two faceplates were painted to match my lathe:
Many thanks to patriot-mfg!!
Paula