Doughnut chuck?

[Ben Werner]

Hi

Sorry I never got this, I've been realllly busy, school play was this weekend which meant long days all week. but here it is now... better late then never right?

donut chuck plans

Ben

[Rob Leslie]

Thanks Ben!!

[Steve Schlumpf]

Thanks Ben!! Exactly what I was looking for!

[Allen Neighbors]

I made a donut chuck that uses 3"x1/4" rubberbands instead of bolts. It's much easier to mount and you don't have to keep different sizes of bolts.
Just Open-ended keyhole slots in the edge of your chuck rounds, with the round part inside.
Mount the bowl with about 2 or 3 bands, bring up your tailstock to center the bowl, and then put on about a dozen rubberbands. It works well.
But I seldom use it, because I made Longworth Chucks that work much better.

[ROY DICK]

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I am goin' to make the 2nd one down.

Roy

[ROY DICK]

My apologies. I didn't notice that there was a 2nd page before I added this.

Roy

[Christopher K. Hartley]

Not exactly plans but it may help if you haven't already seen it.
http://www.sawmillcreek.org/showthread.php?t=40779

After a few additions:
http://www.sawmillcreek.org/attachme...2&d=1173117322

I used the foam pad with a metallic quilted cover that goes under wood flooring. I had it handy from another project and it worked great with no slippage. I also cut my center holes on a bevel and glued leather pads to the bevel at the bolt holes, it keeps from marring the bowls.

[Allen Neighbors]

I realize my verbiage was a little hard to understand, so I decided to post a pic of the one I used to have on Old Griz. This chuck is mounted on a wooden faceplate that threads onto the spindle. The base is 7 layers of 3/4" plywood that is turned into a cone shape, which makes it easier to center the piece. I glued triangles of mouse pad to the cone to hinder damage to the bowl's rim. The rubber bands hook over screwheads in the back of the base. (I rounded them off to keep them from being sharp.) I used a small rubber-backed kitchen rug from WalMart for the circles for the donuts to rest against.
Five rubbers in each of 8 places will hold this 11" dia bowl.

[joe greiner]

Neat setup, Al. Also confirms sisterhood of the Griz (5979?) with HF34706, MC900, etc. etc. (Might have been in the other hemisphere, now that I think about it.)

Joe

[Grant Wilkinson]

Being a diver, I use cut-up old wetsuits for mine.

[Dean Thomas]

Another choice would be the one that can be seen in Woodturning Wizardry and there are a bunch of other nifty gadgets in that book as well. Written by David Springett and published (2nd Edition) in the US by Fox Chapel.

If you search for the book on Amazon.com, you can look at the sample pages and see a picture of his chuck.