Reply With QuoteIf you want to reverse the jaws on a three-jaw, you'll need different jaws, unless they have a different design to the ones I use.
Verdict is that i think they are good for the size they are specced at.
Thats the specs of the stock 3" jaw version.
The problem is that once you have to start buying all the other bits for them, the bigger chucks, tail rests, tailstock live center, tailstock chuck, 5" faceplates etc, they come very damn close to the price of the bigger ones which come with all that to start with.
Plus they are a 3/8" tooling, and as such are pretty limited.
If you want to reverse the jaws on a three-jaw, you'll need different jaws, unless they have a different design to the ones I use.
you are correct.
4 jaw independant, just reverse the jaws
Hachiroku since 1994
Originally Posted by LittleRedSpirit
The 3jaw comes with both, but they are still puny, and as they arnt large the engagement isnt huge either, so you cant extend them out as much as you can on the larger units.
Takai: oh so thats why, I was wondering why it was so little
Orange: correct however almost all new lathe have both sets of jaws
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Im pretty much narrowing it down to one of the 280x610 lathes.
Bit more than i want to spend though.
Sam: since i remember that you live around Dandy what do you think of Asset Plant and Machinery?
Looking at one of these from them:
Ah, i have a lead on an AL320G which wil be going within my price range. Comes with a whoel bunch of stuff too.
Still looking at that Steelmaster 9x20 though.
Takai, how'd ya go with your lathe?
Hachiroku since 1994
I found a second hand AL320G from H&F, Its a chinese lathe, but seems pretty well supported and the guy who is selling it is doing me a great deal.
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