How to Keep Blood and Flesh off your Tailstock Chuck and Lathe Bed

[Ken Grunke]

When drilling a hole with the Jacobs chuck in the tailstock and the piece chucked in the headstock:

• Don't use your hand to hold the chuck if you think it will catch and spin in the hole.
• Do use a rod (knockout bar, for example) in one of the chuck key holes, braced against the lathe bed, to help restrain the chuck from spinning.
• Do grab the restraining rod down far enough so your knuckles don't get hammered by the turning.

The teeth on a jacobs chuck are effective little meat grinders, I must say. Fortunately, it was not serious!

Feel free to add you own How-tos on this subject:cool2:

 

[Odie]

• Do use a rod (knockout bar, for example) in one of the chuck key holes, braced against the lathe bed, to help restrain the chuck from spinning.
  

That's something I hadn't thought of........thanks, Ken

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