Changing From D1-4 To D1-5 (or D1-6)

[Jim V.]

Yes, what Ted said. D1-5 is one step away from unobtainium. d1-6 lathes, chucks, collet chucks, and don't forget faceplates, are much more prevalent, both used and new. Plus, if you want to sell your new lathe in the future, it will be harder to find someone intersted in the D1-5 setup. (I have a d1-5 lathe and it's been a battle tooling it up)

Glenn

For you guys with D1-5 machines, there is a D1-5 Four jaw chuck on Facebook Market place in Highland CA

 

[Chipper5783]

As pointed out by others - holding the collet chuck (remove the pins) in a larger chuck is a typical solution. Another solution would be to get a blank D1 adapter plate of the appropriate size and bolt in from the back side (using the threaded holes where the cam pins were, with some sort of countersunk bolts) - then the chuck is undamaged and you have the features of a chuck that is quick to change/compact/low inertia etc.

 

[G-ManBart]

As pointed out by others - holding the collet chuck (remove the pins) in a larger chuck is a typical solution. Another solution would be to get a blank D1 adapter plate of the appropriate size and bolt in from the back side (using the threaded holes where the cam pins were, with some sort of countersunk bolts) - then the chuck is undamaged and you have the features of a chuck that is quick to change/compact/low inertia etc.

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