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Thread: Spindle adapter for a drill chuck?

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    Spindle adapter for a drill chuck?

    Has anyone made a spindle adapter that can be mounted in the jaws of a drill chuck? I'd like to use one to center bowls mounted on a faceplate when hollowing the inside...

    I know I can buy a tapered spindle adapter, but I already have a drill chuck, and thought there might be a cheaper way to do this with a piece of copper pipe and a threaded nipple of some sort?

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    Are you talking about something to temporarily mount the faceplate to the tailstock for alignnment only? Or something that would actually stay in the tailstock and spin with the work?

    I made an MT-2 arbor to 1" x 8 adapter by cutting off the end of a 1" x 8 bolt and drilling/tapping a 3/8"-16 hole in the center of it. The bolt with the drilled/tapped hole could just as easily have been mounted on a 3/8"-16 bolt and put in a drill chuck instead of on the MT-2 to 3/8"-16 arbor.

    I've had trouble finding 1" x 8 fasteners at my usual haunts. Tractor Supply has them. I have a long 1" x 8 nut that I used to mount the sawed-off bolt to the lathe spindle for drilling and tapping. Both of these operations should be done on the lathe (and without removing/reattaching) to maintain the best precision. I guess if I were doing this and mounting a bolt into the 1" x 8 piece, I'd try to find a brass bolt so I could true it up while the drilled/tapped 1" piece was still on the lathe spindle. I'd just skim a parting tool along the brass shaft until any runout was gone.

    If you know of a source of 1" x 8 brass hardware, let us know.

    Art

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