Has anyone found a low profile lathe chuck for the MR1? Looking to add one .
If you work with round bar alot, an ER40 chuck is low profile and easy to mount. ER40’s also have oversize collets that go up to around 1 5/16", so you can do alot. Recently I had to make a 1 5/8" cutter from O1 to mill flash hider slots, so i did it from round bar that was turned down on one diameter to mount in the collet. I get that it isnt the same as a 3 jaw chuck, but its a must have for me. I have to make a ton of custom bolts and nuts for work and the MR-1 does a good job for that using this chuck. With the adapter I made, its shorter than the tool setter.
6 Likes
I have a 6" bison scroll chuck that I made a thin adapter that bolts to the table. It has bolt on jaws, so I made a set of low profile jaws to help with clearance.
One of the pancake style chucks would be bice, but that’s money that could be spent elsewhere in the shop.
2 Likes