Will the 3 and 4 jaw chucks from Pennstate Industires fit the Jet and Delta Midi lathes? I'm looking to be me a good lathe and wanna go ahead and get the chuck also. Any other advice on tools, accessories and different brands of lathes to purchase? The only ones that I have heard of are Jet, Delta and Turncrafter Pro.

Thanks,
Steve

As long as the Morse Taper (MT1, MT2) match the lathe any chuck shouldl fit any lathe. I have the Turncrafter Pro and am real happy with it. One thing that I learned the hard way is to get good chisels and a VARIABLE speed grinder with pink or white wheels or it won't make any difference what you use

Mike

AMEN!!!!!!!!

Bill in WV

Just yesterday I ordered an MT-2 3 Jaw Scroll Chuck and a 3/8" Drill Chuck for my Jet 1014. Where is a good place ot get a decent variable speed grinder with the pink and white wheels without spending a fortune? I have seen slow grinders which are very costly. Grizzly has a flat wheel unit that is not too expensive. Anyone know if this will do the job?
Dave

Go to Lowes baught one for 69.98 works great, but get the stans that they go on.

Bill in WV

I use a Dremel to to sharpen mine, love it.

I bought a pretty cheap chisel set from psi with the turncrafter pro and I'm glad I did. It's good practice sharpening. I wouldn't want to waste good ones in the learning process. I have a single speed craftsman grinder that gets the job done. I'd like to get a finer wheel though. Sears also has a slow wet grinding stone for about $29. I'm sure it'd be fine for touching up the edge on the chisels. Reshaping the bevels might take awhile. The 3 jaw chuck is fine for holding the mandrels. Must turn the blanks round with the spur center first before mounting in the 3 jaw and boring the center.

Tony

Most of what I am using is based on the thread size not morse taper for the chuck. Either a 1" x 8 or a 3/4" X 16 thread,, or an adapter nut for your machine.. the MT1-MT2 is the taper for the other tools such as the live center, spur center, drill chuck.. However I do think that they make a chuck that has a MT fitting instead of a threaded insert. I would think you would want to be able to chuck up a blank and have it go thru the head stock, I know I have to do that all the time, and if I had a chuck that had the MT for attachment to the lathe, I would not be able to use it, it would be too limited.

Tight lines,

Art

Art,

Wow, you actually put a blank on the lathe?? You/re a lot braver that me!! How do you even go about doing it?? First I heard of that.

Mike

Maybe you otta go to the "other" photo site and look at my steady rest.. user= aparramoure. I now have a couple of those steady rests,, and you can chuck up anything on the lathe. Sometimes you have to "think outside the box" but you can do it !

I put blanks on the lathe all the time... particularly with the very custom grips...

With bamboo blanks, I use it for the ferrule stations on all the sections.

Once you start, you'll never stop finding ways to use the lathe with the blank...
(no,,, haven't tried "power wrapping" on it yet...) <G>

Tight lines,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

Art,

That's one heck of a steady rest!! A lot of great pix!!

I have the 3-jaw chuck, and it works fine. But I think if you are going to turn much wood (reel seats, handles, etc,) from square blocks of wood, a four jaw would be better.
I tried a blank in my PSI once. It shattered into a thousand pieces.
As for sharpening, I bought an 8", slow speed grinder and the Wolverine jig, to make my sharpening idiot-proof. ( I am the only one using it). Came with two white wheels, turns @ 1750 rpms. However, the setup cost more than my lathe.

Steve Parks Wrote:
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> Will the 3 and 4 jaw chucks from Pennstate
> Industires fit the Jet and Delta Midi lathes? I'm
> looking to be me a good lathe and wanna go ahead
> and get the chuck also. Any other advice on tools,
> accessories and different brands of lathes to
> purchase? The only ones that I have heard of are
> Jet, Delta and Turncrafter Pro.

I have a Wilton lathe (made in the same chinesse factory as these others just a different color)
and mine takes 3/4" X 16 thread and I ordered the chuck Pennstate.

My Turncrafter Pro has a 1" 8 thread and I bought the Nova Midi chuck from Woodcraft works perfect. I wish I'd have bought the right size whatever there called for the chuck it comes with a 50mm and I bought the 25 mm (Way too small for turning handles unless they have big bores) I'm probly gonna have to go back and get the 35mm. I'm with you other guys I'm way to chicken to turn with the blank on!!!!

Bill in WV