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In a recent purchase I picked up 6 Albrecht chucks, all in very nice shape. There were 3 1/16'-1/2" and 3 of varying smaller sizes. A very nice score!
Anyways, one of the larger had a #2MT shank. I decided to use that one on my lathes that have #3MT tail stocks, so I ordered a new shank. From my research, it looked to me like the best way to remove the existing shank was to disassemble the chuck and press it out. So, I started to look for tips on doing this.
I found this: http://www.machinistblog.com/rebuilding-an-albrecht-drill-chuck/ which I believe might be from @mikey ? If so, I want to thank him very much for the very useful instructions. There is no doubt I would have put grease on the internal threads if I had not read this post.
Everything went smoothly and now I have a #3MT shank on my nice chuck!
Ted
Anyways, one of the larger had a #2MT shank. I decided to use that one on my lathes that have #3MT tail stocks, so I ordered a new shank. From my research, it looked to me like the best way to remove the existing shank was to disassemble the chuck and press it out. So, I started to look for tips on doing this.
I found this: http://www.machinistblog.com/rebuilding-an-albrecht-drill-chuck/ which I believe might be from @mikey ? If so, I want to thank him very much for the very useful instructions. There is no doubt I would have put grease on the internal threads if I had not read this post.
Everything went smoothly and now I have a #3MT shank on my nice chuck!
Ted