egnald
Member
Greetings from Nebraska.
I bought a second Nova G3 chuck for my lathe and it arrived today. My first G3 chuck from about 5 years ago came with a set of 50mm jaws, but it almost always has my pen drilling jaws installed, so I decided to get another one just so I don't have to change the jaws out when I need to do something that doesn't work well with the pen drilling set up. So, I bought just the chuck and adapter for my headstock threads.
I was really surprised to find that the jaw slides were not numbered. Even the replacement jaw slides from Teknatool are numbered and each one has its own SKU (23051 through 23054 for #1 through #4 respectively). Perhaps they are numbered just to help keep things straight with the sections of their jaw sets. I know that the jaws themselves are numbered so they can be installed in the same order as they were when they were machined, but the numbers on the jaw slides must really not matter. Can anyone confirm my supposition?
Regards,
Dave
PS I also noticed that the G3 T-Bar handle sure looks and feels a lot cheaper than the handle that came with my first chuck. It looks like it is nickel plated and feels kind of clunky-like because of the loose fitting sliding T-Bar. My older one doesn't have a sliding T-bar and it looks and feels a lot more solid than what came with this new chuck. Comments?
I bought a second Nova G3 chuck for my lathe and it arrived today. My first G3 chuck from about 5 years ago came with a set of 50mm jaws, but it almost always has my pen drilling jaws installed, so I decided to get another one just so I don't have to change the jaws out when I need to do something that doesn't work well with the pen drilling set up. So, I bought just the chuck and adapter for my headstock threads.
I was really surprised to find that the jaw slides were not numbered. Even the replacement jaw slides from Teknatool are numbered and each one has its own SKU (23051 through 23054 for #1 through #4 respectively). Perhaps they are numbered just to help keep things straight with the sections of their jaw sets. I know that the jaws themselves are numbered so they can be installed in the same order as they were when they were machined, but the numbers on the jaw slides must really not matter. Can anyone confirm my supposition?
Regards,
Dave
PS I also noticed that the G3 T-Bar handle sure looks and feels a lot cheaper than the handle that came with my first chuck. It looks like it is nickel plated and feels kind of clunky-like because of the loose fitting sliding T-Bar. My older one doesn't have a sliding T-bar and it looks and feels a lot more solid than what came with this new chuck. Comments?