I want an accurate chuck.
When I first started turning, I had a Jet 1014 and a couple Nova chucks. The first one I bought new was the Nova midi with the tommy bars and and it had very small jaw movement.. The second one was a used original Nova chuck with tommy bars, and an assortment of jaws. Both of these had dovetail style jaws and for the money were pretty accurate.
Then I got a Jet 1642 lathe (since sold), and the Nova G3 chuck, and a Oneway Talon. I haven't been pleased with either one of these. They both have their problems. The G3 has some small jaws on it at the moment, but the thing wobbles despite my best efforts to get it running true. I've taken the insert out and put the dial indicator on it, trued it up, and checked again. There's less than .0005" runout on the insert at the moment, but the thing wobbles at the business end enough to see it.
The Talon jaws have never been right from day one. I tried and tried to get them trued up, but those serrated jaws are just... well... less than optimal if you want to re-turn something.
Anyway, I'm about fed up with these chucks, and wonder whether there are chucks that are accurate right out of the box? Vicmarc perhaps?
What say you?