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fixer upper for sure, I've done the electrical mods ( New Power cord and rewired all the wiring to both motors and solder eyelets.) Lathe motor hasn't popped breakers since then and I use the spindle...

I hate mine. (2005 Eldorado) As I'm not a trained machinist I didn't know anything. I was looking for a home machine to learn and work on my home made mechanical projects. And "save" money on...

as a newbie my self, time on the machine and practice wasting parts will help bring down the tolerances. Spend some time on testing. The first 6 months I had my machine running I was doing more...

I got mine in 2005 and tons of issues, I have a ongoing post here about excessive runout with the chuck and precision ground round SS stock.

I could actually push on the chuck and get major...

well its been a while, I have been working on my project.

When I was here last I was going throught putting that Bison on.

I have been working with that chuck for a while now, and this has...

Well the latest saga, is I took the face plate and cut a recessed slot on that so the bison chuck would fit, as the shoulder step on the face plate is a larger diameter than the bison chuck, and fit...

Just a note, I have been trying to make an adapter plate, and it's slow going as 1: I have no experience, and 2: I put time into other areas of interests.

My first plate was looking good, until I...

Just an update, I ordered a 4 jaw and live center set from shoptask and made a decision and bought a precision 3 jaw chuck from Bison. Now I'll see about the adaptor for the spindle.

DH

What I forgot to mention was after all the tweaks and adjustments I put my dial indicator on the outside of the chuck and rotated that by hand using the pulley and that was right at .001 or less for...

Hey thanks for all the responses, I'm sure you guys are busy. My shoptask is basically new, got it in July 2005 uncrated in December 2005, and started fiddleling with it, less than a few hours on...

Thanks Ken. I did tightened the spindle nuts on the inside pulleys and the chuck defection is a lot less now.

How common is it for round bar stock to be out of round?

My latest ordeal with...

Hi has anybody replaced their 3 jaw chuck (Eldorado) with a known name brand?

I cannot get a consistent reading for round stock. I talked with JT and tightened up the spindle bearings as I was...