woodscavenger
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I have been doing a few closed end barons. For the first 5 or 6 I used a dowel chucked in my PSI chuck with a section turned down to the diameter of the smaller baron bushing then the rest of it the size of the I.D. of the brass tube. It worked fairly well but when I separated the waste of the end of the closed end form and lost the ability to stabilize everyting with the tailstock it got a little wobbly. I don't have a metal lathe so I have been trying to figure out what to do a bout a nice stiff pin chuck.
Well, I was trimming the blanks ( I bought one of the trimmer kits with the multiple inserts) and realized the largest trimmer fits snuggly in the Baron brass tube. So I threw it in my drill chuck body, filed a notch, grabbed a small nail and filed and trimmed it. Presto! Solid pin chuck and it won't affect the use as a trimmer insert. The cool thing is I can do the same for all of the other inserts!
Well, I was trimming the blanks ( I bought one of the trimmer kits with the multiple inserts) and realized the largest trimmer fits snuggly in the Baron brass tube. So I threw it in my drill chuck body, filed a notch, grabbed a small nail and filed and trimmed it. Presto! Solid pin chuck and it won't affect the use as a trimmer insert. The cool thing is I can do the same for all of the other inserts!