7mm pin chuck

[skiprat]

Heres a pic of my homemade 7mm pin chuck, made from my dwindling supply of brass scrap. Turned on my wood lathe with a file and recess for pin then cut with a router. The pin is just a bit of welding rod. The hardest part of making one of these is finding the pin every time you drop it on the floor. As the photo shows, I now use an old bit of 7mm tube to keep it together during storage.

I am also toying with the idea of taking my mandrel to a machine shop and asking them to grind a flat surface on the non threaded end of the rod. That way, I can just turn the rod around in the mandrel for closed ended pens.

 

[Mikey]

Great idea, but I think someone beat you to it. I picked up a few mandrels from Berea a feew weeks back and bot of them had flats ground on the mandrels. I never realized that I may be able to use them as pin chucks in my Beall Collet.

 

[skiprat]

Originally posted by Mikey
<br /> .....I picked up a few mandrels from Berea a feew weeks back and bot of them had flats ground on the mandrels....

Thats really good news Mikey. It is not often that tool makers / suppliers make good stuff with two uses. I assume they supply a matched pin with it? If so, I'm gonna get one. My mandrel was from PSI, do Berea have their own brand?

 

[bradh]

Originally posted by Mikey
<br />Great idea, but I think someone beat you to it. I picked up a few mandrels from Berea a feew weeks back and bot of them had flats ground on the mandrels. I never realized that I may be able to use them as pin chucks in my Beall Collet.

I think the flats are intended to allow you to tighten or adjust the mandrel, but I think you have found an excellent new use for that feature!

 

[bradh]

Originally posted by skiprat
<br />Heres a pic of my homemade 7mm pin chuck, made from my dwindling supply of brass scrap.

Sorry for hijacking your thread. I like the simplicity of this chuck. The brass is a good idea to make it easy to machine.
Thanks,

 

[MDWine]

Does anyone make a 7mm pin chuck?

 

[Blind_Squirrel]

Originally posted by MDWine
<br />Does anyone make a 7mm pin chuck?

Try asking this guy: http://www.penturners.org/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=22132 [}][]