Tuesday, August 4, 2020

disassembling a Jacobs ball-bearing SuperChuck™

Today I Learned...

 Something I had always wondered, since there are no exposed fasteners: how the FarK do you get the damned things apart?

 Well, I just watched Tom Lipton do it, and it turns out the answer is: you don't.

Unless you own a big-ass arbor press (I don't).
Unless you know what you are doing when it comes time to reassemble it (I don't).

Given the above, I am more determined than ever to baby my own. That thing was nearly $200 and worth every penny.

The Chinese PoS which came with my lathe I literally threw into the trash it was so unusable. (and probably shit steel too, so to the archeologists with it!)

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