Texatdurango
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No, we don't have you figured out, far from it! It's just that the way your explanation of what happened didn't make any sense and we were trying to figure out what happened so we could possibly help you from kaming another possibly dangerous blunder!My lathe is setup for drilling the way I was told to set it up on here (Search the thread if you like) with the pen jaws in the headstock and the drill chuck in the tailstock. I could mount the drill chuck in the taper on the headstock, but since the jaws screw onto the 1"8tpi threads of the headstock, there's NO WAY they could be mounted down there.
But I'm glad you've all decided you had me figured out.
As for what I was doing at the time...I really don't remember. It happened quickly, and it was over in about one second. However, there is every possibility that I was backing the bit out at the time, and it bit into the blank while I was backing it out, which would account for it coming loose from the taper. The bit definitely snapped before it hit the ground, because the broken piece stayed on my bench after it hit the pegboard, while the chuck with the remaining piece ended up on the floor.
But if you want to post something like this then get all defensive, that's your business, I'll keep that in mind the next time you post something like... "my tailstock fell off the lathe, is it the lathes fault or mine!"