Gary
SE Kansas
Some time back I bought a 5c Collet chuck for my lathe. That was the easy part. Finding a Faceplate for said chuck was an adventure. I could find a face plate, but justifying the cost was another matter. In traversing the immense Youtube vid library I managed to find a guy that had the same dilemma and his solution. Where most cast iron face plates were in the $100 and up price range, he found a faceplate that fit almost perfectly @ Grizzly for $8 + shipping. He didn't disclose the item #, ect of the face plate but by stopping the vid at the moment he had the face plate setting on the invoice I was able to copy the item # and got a order placed. BTW, his vid was several years old but the item still existed. Got the face plate and the register part was out of round and smaller than the mounting surface of the chuck. Figured I'd lost my $15 investment. However, today I put it on the Lathe and faced off all the surfaces until it was <.001 runout. Pretty proud of myself, but the register was small. So, I undertook the nasty job of cutting a larger register by facing the plate and forming a wider register. What a mess, however, I now have a face plate that fits very snug and I can now use the 5c Collet chuck. Now to clean the Lathe.