Fish30114
Member
Well I have been chasing around a problem for a while with my Jet 1221 VS lathe and the Nova supernova 2 chuck I have had. One thing I resolved with the help of Ken here, is that I had a wrong insert in my chuck, I've since got that sorted but I have a remaining issue that I thought I would ask you folks for some help with.
If I put a live center in the tailstock, and a spur drive(with point) in the headstock, and slid the tailstock all the way up to the headstock, and lock the tailstock down, the points meet pretty damn precisely.
My issue is if I take a pen blank and chuck it up in my pen jaws, after marking center on the blank, and confirming it is definitely square, when I put my Jacobs chuck in the tailstock and put a drill bit in it, when I bring it up to the pen blank it is consistently slightly low and very slightly left of center.
I don't know how to check where the error is occurring, and what I might do to correct it.
Help!
Thanks for any ideas feedback or suggestions.
If I put a live center in the tailstock, and a spur drive(with point) in the headstock, and slid the tailstock all the way up to the headstock, and lock the tailstock down, the points meet pretty damn precisely.
My issue is if I take a pen blank and chuck it up in my pen jaws, after marking center on the blank, and confirming it is definitely square, when I put my Jacobs chuck in the tailstock and put a drill bit in it, when I bring it up to the pen blank it is consistently slightly low and very slightly left of center.
I don't know how to check where the error is occurring, and what I might do to correct it.
Help!
Thanks for any ideas feedback or suggestions.