Grizzly G0765

[Gary]

Grizzly says that the Chuck is MINE, not their problem. Kinda thought that would be the response. I'm going to grind a little more off the outer diameter so that the gear plate will fit in the body of the chuck without the aid of my plastic hammer.

 

[Ian]

I forgot you bought the second-hand one. Oh well, it's only $75 and you can get a 4" one later for a little more if you decide you need it.

 

[Gary]

When the gal on the Grizzly side of the conversation offered to sell me a replacement chuck, she said it would be $174 and change. I told her no thanks.
I took it apart again and the planetary gear (I think that's the name of it) still is so tight in the body of the chuck that tomorrow it gets put back on the lathe until it freely fits. Don't have a thing to lose it that's the wrong approach.

 

[Ian]

It's probably the scroll you're talking about. You know what chucks should cost for these after looking at littlemachineshop.

Had you thought about trying to use valve lapping compound between the binding parts instead?

 

[Gary]

Good idea Ian, I think I have some in the shop and I'll give it a try.

 

[Gary]

Lapping a failure, the tolerance(s) are quite a bit out. Here's what I did: First I made sure the gear wasn't binding on the outside perimeter - that done I discovered it was more the fault of the hub being to small for the internal post of the Chuck body. Second; I chucked up the gear in my 4 jaw and loaded on a boring bar and proceeded to make the opening a tad larger (.002). Now the gear will slip into the Chuck body almost like a slip fit and will turn without much effort. I think I'll leave it there and let the Chuck slowly get better by itself. Quite proud of myself I must say. Officially my first project. I'm stoked!!

 

[Ian]

Congratulations on a first project! You'll be running to your lathe more and more as you begin to get accustomed to the idea of it being a "corrector" to fix a myriad of things.

 

[Gary]

You're right Ian. I bought some Lyman sizing dies from a fellow off Cast Boolits and one of them would not fit my Lyman 45. It does now!! It was .704 at the nose; now .702 . I am getting more confidence with the lathe every time I fire it up. Thanks again for all your help and encouragement.

 

[Pistolero]

Yep, corrector. That's a good name for it, Ian. You can correct a raw chunk of steel into a lot of stuff, and remake
stuff that wasn't correct....like Lyman die that is too fat. It is neat what you can do with a lathe.

Bill