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- Dec 23, 2019
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I recently became obsessed with lathes and decided to purchase one along with some tooling. It's a hobby so I didnt want to go completely nuts but I wanted top of the line. I chose a company with a good reputation and spent over 4500 after shipping and tools to get started. I love everything about my lathe so far except the 4 jaw chuck that I spent 480$ extra on(lathe came with 6" 3 jaw).
Why should it be acceptable to be told that the chuck may need to be trimmed down a bit or worked on in some way to get it to sit right with my spindle? I mean I paid almost 500$ for the chuck after after spending thousands with this vendor should I really not expect the chuck to wobble because this is a "hobby level" lathe setup? The 3 jaw works perfect and all of the camlock stud indicators are in the same spot relative to the lip of the hole. On the 4 jaw when the studs are situated in a spot to accept the camlock all of the indicator rings are sitting at different heights along the lip? Like wtf? Seems pretty obvious to me that the thing is going to have some wobble? Am I crazy? Vendor rep thinks so. The thing sits flat against the spindle it's just off. Super frustrating. Just curious why its acceptable In this community to tell people they're just hobby level so they shouldn't expect things to work? If I'm going to have to machine something do get it to work I want a disclaimer beforehand like there was with the QCTP and I gladly paid the extra 20$ to have the thing shipped in working order.
Sheesh
Why should it be acceptable to be told that the chuck may need to be trimmed down a bit or worked on in some way to get it to sit right with my spindle? I mean I paid almost 500$ for the chuck after after spending thousands with this vendor should I really not expect the chuck to wobble because this is a "hobby level" lathe setup? The 3 jaw works perfect and all of the camlock stud indicators are in the same spot relative to the lip of the hole. On the 4 jaw when the studs are situated in a spot to accept the camlock all of the indicator rings are sitting at different heights along the lip? Like wtf? Seems pretty obvious to me that the thing is going to have some wobble? Am I crazy? Vendor rep thinks so. The thing sits flat against the spindle it's just off. Super frustrating. Just curious why its acceptable In this community to tell people they're just hobby level so they shouldn't expect things to work? If I'm going to have to machine something do get it to work I want a disclaimer beforehand like there was with the QCTP and I gladly paid the extra 20$ to have the thing shipped in working order.
Sheesh