Terry, I looked at their ( Glacern's) prices, not bad at all, I'm still shopping around .
Mikey, since I posted this thread I've been looking around on the net for a good quality chuck and the name Albrecht keeps popping up , but as you and terry both mentioned, there are a lot of garbage ones mixed with a few good ones, I almost bid on a used one for $53 but stopped myself at the last minute, it looked too worn out although all I had to go on was the picture . the best ones on ebay are the new old stocks.
What are your opinions on this Taiwanese chuck under the name "Precision Mathews" ? they seem to build all sorts of metalworking tools , I found
this on ebay .ca and it looked promising, comes with integral R8 shank and the runout is ~.002", not bad for what I'm looking for.
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http://www.ebay.ca/itm/232231595178
Thank you both for your thoughts.