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bastallard

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My son had used my Delta Midi lathe with the face plate, and when I went out to do some turning, I proceeded to remove the face plate and after a couple of turns I realized that he had tightened the retaining screws on the face plate, which messed up a few of the threads on the spindle, and now my chuck won't fully seat onto the spindle. I am thinking that a die of the proper size should fix it, but I don't have any experience with this at all, any advice?
 
You could also buy a file called a thread chaser. It's a four sided file with 4-8 different threads on it. It also would be cheaper that a die, and can be used for many thread sizes. Plus 1 on the triangle file also. Go to Harbor Freight and buy a small set of diamond files ( under $10 ), they come in all different shapes and are very handy for pen work and other uses Jim S
 
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