I was reading Greg Bender's post on vacuum chuck gasketing and it reminded me that I wanted to post a photo of a quick chuck I came up with the other day. I had a finished mini birdhouse that had a couple small runs in the finish and I wanted to sand them out on the lathe. I installed my collet chuck holder without the nut and collet and presto instant ~1.5 inch vacuum chuck. Slipped a little piece of foam between the metal and the birdhouse and it worked great.
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