Looking for a Titan chuck. If you have one to sell, please contact me.
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Nova Titan chuck
- Thread starter Peter D'Attomo
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Neil, you're closer to the source. This chuck is not listed on the Teknatool web site. Don't know what's going on.
I have one direct threaded for 1.25x8. My receipt indicates I bought it new in Dec 2016.
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I put it on the PM3520b to test but never turned a project with it so it's basically new.
It came with T-bar handle and PowerGrip jaws.
I need to go down to the shop and look at it and see if I remember why I bought it.
I like to turn small things so I probably bought it on a whim.
While I'm pondering whether to part with it perhaps someone else will offer a used one.
I rarely sell stuff. If I decide to, should I list it in the "For Sale" area, or is it different protocol for a query in "Want to Buy?"
JKJ
Screen capture.
I put it on the PM3520b to test but never turned a project with it so it's basically new.
It came with T-bar handle and PowerGrip jaws.
I need to go down to the shop and look at it and see if I remember why I bought it.
I like to turn small things so I probably bought it on a whim.
While I'm pondering whether to part with it perhaps someone else will offer a used one.
I rarely sell stuff. If I decide to, should I list it in the "For Sale" area, or is it different protocol for a query in "Want to Buy?"
JKJ
JKJ that is the Nova Titan II, it was made to use the jaw sets that all the other nova chucks use. When I reviewed it I gave it a bad review not because it wasn't bad it was just stupid to use 2 holed jaws made for 4" and smaller chucks where the original Nova Titan used a 5" three hole jaw. They soon corrected that and came out with the Nova Titan III and two new jaw sets that are fantastic. The original and the Nova Titan III came with the three holed 5" deep jaws. I have both the original and the Nova Titan III and both sets of the new jaws made for it. Both great chucks for large pieces. I wanted to upgrade the Titan II to the Titan III (all I thought that would be needed were new 3 holed slides and a new gear ring) but they told me it wasn't possible and I found that hard to believe.
Thanks for the good information. I may have been asleep when I bought it since I thought it had 3-hole slides. It's probably not what others are looking for then.
I looked at it last night and decided I'm tired of it taking up space in the drawer. I'll prob give it to a friend or donate it to the club for our annual wood auction. (I sometimes bring a carton of fresh farm eggs and a bottle of honey to keep things interesting.)
JKJ
Yes, Peter, I'm closer to the source and bought mine back when they first came out.
I have the original 5" Supernova Deluxe with two screw holes on the slides that took the 5" dovetail jaws and the 5" Powergrip. I then got the first Titan chuck with the three screw holes in the slide to take the Powergrip with three screw holes. Both of these chucks were designed to take a thread adaptor insert to fit on various lathe spindle thread sizes. Both the 3 screw hole Titan and the 2 screw hole Deluxe took any of the other smaller Nova jaw sets. All are interchangeable.
Because of the image quoter, I'll upload those in a separate post.
The later Titan II & III came with dedicated spindle threads in the body of the chuck, but only in a limited number of sizes, which, as far as I know, never included the 30m x 3.5 spindle thread size that is most common down here. Besides being incompatible with our most common spindle thread size down here, the two screw hole Titans models seemed to me to be a backward step and never made any sense to me.
IMO, the Deluxe and original Titan were an excellent step up from their SN2 and won over the Vicmarc chucks on jaw compatibility across its full Nov jaw range, whereas Vicmarc has that annoying apartheid between its regular and larger chucks.
In defence of the larger Vicmarc VM120 chucks, they may have that annoying jaw and screw size incompatibility with its VM90 and VM100 chucks, but the VM120 jaw size range goes way above the 5" provided by Powergrip jaws for the Titan.
The original Titan is an excellent chuck and I have swung some very large chunks of wood off them.
Disclosure: I have and regularly use half a dozen of both Nova and Vicmarc chucks. I don't think one is better than the other and am equally happy with both...
Here is my Supernova Deluxe 5" chuck that has two screw hole slides, but it can also take the three screw Powergrip jaws (top right in photo) if just the two inner screws are used, but I wouldn't use the Powergrip jaws that way to take the same load as I would when secured on the Titan with three screws...
The Titan will also take any of the Nova two or one screw jaws... yes, it would be absurd to use them with those 1" pin jaws, but just shown to illustrate the compatibility across the Nova jaw range....
I think what happened with the later Titan chucks is that they went back to the SN Deluxe design and just renamed it!
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The Titan will also take any of the Nova two or one screw jaws... yes, it would be absurd to use them with those 1" pin jaws, but just shown to illustrate the compatibility across the Nova jaw range....
I think what happened with the later Titan chucks is that they went back to the SN Deluxe design and just renamed it!
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Neil thank you for that info as I did not know that the Super Nova Deluxe existed. I have always known that all jaws fit all chucks but one thing I never looked at is will the jaws of the Titan or Titan III fit like the Supernova.
Is Nova in financial difficulties? I have all Nova chucks and would prefer to stay that way.
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Peter I don't believe that Teknatool is going away. In this time of unknowns it is just that no one knows. Hopefully the sane part of the world will keep them afloat. My 20+ Nova chucks are going nowhere.
I have what must be the Titan II, as it came with 100mm powerjaws and 2 screw holes on the slides. I replaced the powerjaws with regular bowl jaws (125mm?). I use it for coring and large bowls, up to 18.5", and it's worked just fine for me. Never had anything come off or notice a problem with 2 screws per jaw. YMMV
For those who want to turn big, forget the chuck and go with a big faceplate and lots of screws. Some of the late Lissi Oland's bowls were big enough to take a bath in. She showed me the faceplate - seems it was about 12" in dia. The big bowl lathe is custom built.
She cored with a chainsaw.
JKJ
She cored with a chainsaw.
JKJ
Chainsaw coring? 
There's a video:
View: https://youtu.be/1PMEJ7rirso?si=EPgn9gxWZOwtm_v4
Her huge property was near Brasstown, NC, near John C. Campbell. Big shop, building full of wood, fantastic showroom building, and a welcoming home. What a wonderful person. A buddy of mine was a good friend of hers and took me to meet her and I went back several times. She kept filling up my vehicle with wood! I think JohnL went with me once.
Her late husband, Knud, was instrumental in starting the woodturning program at JCC. She showed me some of Knud's pieces, large and small.
I sketched one small box and made one when I got home, as close to his design as I could.
Lissi eventually moved back to Denmark where she passed away in 2016.
Knud made strong tools for turning big things. I bought one of the remaining sets - still in the box, never opened! Maybe a little piece of history?
JKJ
Her huge property was near Brasstown, NC, near John C. Campbell. Big shop, building full of wood, fantastic showroom building, and a welcoming home. What a wonderful person. A buddy of mine was a good friend of hers and took me to meet her and I went back several times. She kept filling up my vehicle with wood! I think JohnL went with me once.
Her late husband, Knud, was instrumental in starting the woodturning program at JCC. She showed me some of Knud's pieces, large and small.
I sketched one small box and made one when I got home, as close to his design as I could.
Lissi eventually moved back to Denmark where she passed away in 2016.
Knud made strong tools for turning big things. I bought one of the remaining sets - still in the box, never opened! Maybe a little piece of history?
JKJ