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Brad93
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I need a new chuck. Really should consider two piece jaws I suppose .
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Or you may be able to buy two piece jaws for the chuck you have if it is reasonably good nick. Then again may be just as cheap buying one complete as the two part jaws are expensive to buy as additions.
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It’s an old chuck, serial number dates it to 1980. Dare not get rid of it though as it’s the proper integral L00 jobbie. I don’t know if anyone even makes an integral L00 chuck anymore.
Pratt will sell you a backplate for about £300, bison about £200.
Pratt will sell you a backplate for about £300, bison about £200.
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It is not much help, but perhaps start looking in US. As the L-taper is also known as 'American long taper', there may be more sources. You could try Pratt America, Buck chucks, Kalamazoo, Toolmex. Even look in US MSC. This place might be a good starting point (http://lathe-chucks.com/).
If the chuck ends up as scrap, machine the front off it and keep the spindle nose part as a spare backplate.
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Here is one, not cheap though 
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That’s lovelyHere is one, not cheap though
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first time I've ever used machinable soft jaws, I couldn't think of a better way to hold the workpiece... and now I'm thinking they'll get a lot more use now, lol. Also faster to swap the hard jaws around, just whizz the bolts off, tap the jaws off, wipe over and then bolt straight back up...
Hood did me a solid when he sold me this chuck, and I don't think I truly appreciated it!
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Aye, bargain price too
just been looking at second hand chucks and the price for a half decent one is Would rather it was getting used than just sitting idly by waiting for the occasional use on the Chiron.
If it had fitted the Triumph it likely would have been on that, then again, probably not as the Forkardt is the dogs danglers
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Yep I Agee with the brick idea. I am retired and I like to test myself. A few bits of 304 stainless laying around and lots of time resulted in what you see.
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Made a gate to keep the horse out of the vegetable garden. Was donated a couple of bits of railing, one long one all on an angle from a balustrade, which I dismantled and refabricated as the main gate a while back, and a smaller straight bit that I cut down and reengineered into the garden gate.
I was particularly pleased with the bolt arrangement that I made with a bit of spare rod and some flat bar. I ground a groove halfway through the rod, bent it 90deg and welded the cut (2mm Pecol 6013 @ 70A), bent the flat bar over a bit of rod and welded it all up in position. I made the hinges too from a bit of angle and short lengths of rod: drilled the angle for the rod and welded it in place under the hinge.
I was particularly pleased with the bolt arrangement that I made with a bit of spare rod and some flat bar. I ground a groove halfway through the rod, bent it 90deg and welded the cut (2mm Pecol 6013 @ 70A), bent the flat bar over a bit of rod and welded it all up in position. I made the hinges too from a bit of angle and short lengths of rod: drilled the angle for the rod and welded it in place under the hinge.
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Good job on the gate and bolt arrangement. It looks quite remote where you are. I do like to see other parts of the world I am not likely to visit so thanks for posting
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Thanks MOL, it's up a mountain in central Portugal and the views are fantastic. There will be more pics from time to time as and when welding projects arise.Good job on the gate and bolt arrangement. It looks quite remote where you are. I do like to see other parts of the world I am not likely to visit so thanks for posting
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Just wait until the time you're trying every trick you can think of to get out of attending their weddings, (not that I'd ever do that. I love weddings.
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Yeah I bet.I love weddings.
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Set out to practice my welding by making a shoe rack out of horseshoes, so cleaned off the shoes, tidied them up enough to mig weld. cut the metal rods, and basically faffed about getting set up, then plugged in the welder, and nothing happened.
After having a bit of a panic, I remembered I took out the fuse to test something else. Fitted the new fuse, and off we went, but apparently there was no ‘go gas’. Checked the bottle to find it was empty, but surely one bottle lasts forever?
Remembered I still had a part filled disposable bottle somewhere, so changed all the fittings, and finally started welding. Ten minutes and ten tack welds later, that ran out too.
There are days when nothing is easy, and everything you do is an uphill fight.
A bit of good did come out of it. I haven’t really used the tig welder too much, so dug it out, and lo…. I did some welding. I think the reason I haven’t been using it, is a lack of confidence to even really make a start (or what we used to call “absolutely no idea what I’m doing, and too feart to try”).
As you can see from the pictures, the welding is a mess. Nothing was really clean enough, settings were all wrong, you name it, it were wrong. But I had fun making that mess, and learned more about tig in that one hour than I had before. More importantly, I was not shy about fiddling about with the settings, and only panicked once when I set fire to something I was using as a spacer. And who knew you could make metal could glow so brightly.
I’ll cut the worst bits apart, and do them over properly some time next week, as playtime is over, and back to work for me.
After having a bit of a panic, I remembered I took out the fuse to test something else. Fitted the new fuse, and off we went, but apparently there was no ‘go gas’. Checked the bottle to find it was empty, but surely one bottle lasts forever?
Remembered I still had a part filled disposable bottle somewhere, so changed all the fittings, and finally started welding. Ten minutes and ten tack welds later, that ran out too.
There are days when nothing is easy, and everything you do is an uphill fight.
A bit of good did come out of it. I haven’t really used the tig welder too much, so dug it out, and lo…. I did some welding. I think the reason I haven’t been using it, is a lack of confidence to even really make a start (or what we used to call “absolutely no idea what I’m doing, and too feart to try”).
As you can see from the pictures, the welding is a mess. Nothing was really clean enough, settings were all wrong, you name it, it were wrong. But I had fun making that mess, and learned more about tig in that one hour than I had before. More importantly, I was not shy about fiddling about with the settings, and only panicked once when I set fire to something I was using as a spacer. And who knew you could make metal could glow so brightly.
I’ll cut the worst bits apart, and do them over properly some time next week, as playtime is over, and back to work for me.
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I also made a stand for SWMBO's hose so it works as a sprinkler. I've heard you can buy such things as sprinklers but where's the fun in that? It's from a couple of spare rods from the gate fabrication and a short length of angle.
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With bad weather forecast for yesterday, (Wednesday) I needed to get some kerbs sorted down at my lockup before the trench filled up with mud again
Looked online Monday night to hire one and none available so I knocked up this
No plans, not even the back of a fag packet, thrown together from what was in my scrap bin, minimal prep and just went for it with the MIG as it was getting too late to be out making noise
And it worked
12 and a bit kerbs in place
Looked online Monday night to hire one and none available so I knocked up this
No plans, not even the back of a fag packet, thrown together from what was in my scrap bin, minimal prep and just went for it with the MIG as it was getting too late to be out making noise
And it worked
12 and a bit kerbs in place
