Thanks guys. That's the cleanest you will ever see this lathe...lol. I had some time to play around with it today. I decided to make the little thumbscrew I needed for my compound dial. I thought I would dial in the Buck 3 jaw adjustable chuck that I was so proud to have and use it to make the screw. Imagine my dismay when I realized that one of the previous owners had messed up the jaws on it. They were bell mouthed so bad that it wouldn't even begin to grip for the last 1/2". I decided to grind them, which would have been easy enough....if my toolpost grinder fit the compound. Sooo...an hour later after making a tee nut to fit the slot, I ground the ID of the jaws. I figured I couldn't make them any worse than they were. It turned out real nice. After grinding the jaws I disassembled it and cleaned years of swarf out of it, milled some slots in the mounting plate for a spanner wrench, and put it back together. This is the first adjustable chuck I've ever used. I'm impressed. I didn't spend a lot of time dialing it in, but it's less than 0.001 runout, which is good enough for most of the stuff I do. I had resigned myself to using a 4 jaw all the time because the scroll chucks I have are all worn and inaccurate. I could get used to using this chuck.
