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Chuck loosening during turning - Help requested
- Thread starter Don Armour
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I do almost all bowls with fresh green wood and hold them in my One Way chucks with the profile jaws on a straight tenon or true dovetail jaws on a recess and for me it is part of the process to snug up the chuck after 5 to 10 minutes time. The distortion that occurs when the wood dries is easily trued up using the profile jaws due to the wide range of diameter accommodated, however the bird beak dove tail jaws would seam to be a problem. The recess which needs to be a true circle to match the jaw will shrink and usually can be trued up to the original true circle. Note; the profile jaws have the bird beak pattern on the outside dovetail and that was not good for anything so I mounted my chuck on my metal lathe and made it a true dovetail.
I'm late to the party with this thread but glad I caught it. I have a set of three Nova Infinity chucks with a complete complement of jaws, #2-7. They are all dovetail inside and out. I thought all Nova's were true dovetails. I'm in the middle of teaching a class and while making some props noticed that the G3 chucks the club owns are straight! with a "beak: You learn something new every day. Thanks to all for making me aware of something before I misled my students.