Chuck Jaw storage idea?

[Steve Tiedman]

I can show you an idea that does NOT work. 17 pounds of chuck jaws in a $4 plastic tub. Oh, they all fit just fine, lid installed and everything. But that thin plastic does not accept the weight of what it contains if kept on a shelf where it would need to be grabbed and put back repeatedly. It would be fine if its home was a stationary location, which I do not have.


I'll just keep them in their boxes on a shelf.

 

[Gary Beasley]

I am fortunate to have bought into Nova's, now discontinued, keyless Infinity chucks years ago and love them. I now have three chucks and Nova gifted me (long story) with a set of 2-7 jaws. I made a box (no lid) for each size. I color coded the boxes with a band around each and put a small colored dot (sticker) on each one to make identification easy.

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I have that system too, wonderful design! I have a large rolling tool chest that I set the jaws into on one end of the top drawer with the larger handled tools on the other end. The drawer is deep enough to set the chuck in as well. Each set is marked with the set number, 1 through 7, and arranged by jaw number so its easier when changing jaws to grab the right one. Before that I used to hang sets on pegboard behind the lathe for my supernova and G3 chucks. I still have the supernova and leave the 50mm set on it mostly for the worm screw.