suefox51
Member
I've been drilling on the lathe for a short while. I purchased a keyless chuck and have the PSI blank holder.
While drilling a maple blank yesterday, the blank exploded, the blank holder got chewed up by the drill bit and the keyless chuck flew off and hit me in the shoulder.
I realize I should have been wearing Kevlar, but didn't have it available.
Is there something I missed? They keyless chuck slides into the tailstock and tightens up in there, but, and this may be the key, sometimes, it loosens up while drilling.
Any and all information, input, suggestions, don't ever do this again's, will be appreciated. Really got beat up by that chuck - only slightly cut by the flying drill bit that was still in the chuck - which, by the way, ended up with a bang on the garage concrete floor and is bent now - jeez.....
Thanks,
Sue:frown:
While drilling a maple blank yesterday, the blank exploded, the blank holder got chewed up by the drill bit and the keyless chuck flew off and hit me in the shoulder.
I realize I should have been wearing Kevlar, but didn't have it available.
Is there something I missed? They keyless chuck slides into the tailstock and tightens up in there, but, and this may be the key, sometimes, it loosens up while drilling.
Any and all information, input, suggestions, don't ever do this again's, will be appreciated. Really got beat up by that chuck - only slightly cut by the flying drill bit that was still in the chuck - which, by the way, ended up with a bang on the garage concrete floor and is bent now - jeez.....
Thanks,
Sue:frown: