Hi, Mike Corliss with Tormach. Today we're going to mount the...
...in the new Tormach Slant Bed Lathe.
When you go to mount your chuck, take it out of the box.
The studs are going to be loose.
You've got to install the studs. The studs have a little...
..gauge line on them. You got to screw them in so they're flush with...
...back of the chuck. They just thread right into these holes.
That's too deep.
Then there's a...
...groove in the side of them. That has to line up...
...right with this counter bore.
A socket head cap screw goes in there and it keeps the retention studs from backing out.
Retention studs screwed in.
Now when you first get your lathe...
there's no markings on the spindle nose.
I like to put a witness mark on it.
...just so I put the chuck in and out the same...
...so it's oriented the same way each time.
I'm just going to put a mark on it with a black marker.
You can take a dremel and etch a line into it,
use a paint pen, a stamp set, whatever you want,
but just put a witness mark on there. And after...
I'll put a witness mark on the chuck after I get it in there so it lines up...
...with the witness mark I put on here. And every time I put the chuck in...
...I'll put it in the same way. For the hard jaws it's not going to matter,
but these are movable jaws. If you make any soft jaws...
...you will want to make sure you orient the chuck the same way each time
that way you are going to get better repeatability for your run out.
So now we put this in.
It slides in like this. You turn the cam locks.
You just snug them up and you can go back and tighten...
...them further after you've got them tight.
ok
There's a line on these...
...cam locks, when it's rotated up...
vertically to say 12 o'clock, that's the off position.
Then you want them to lock solid,
between say, like three and six o'clock.
If your cam lock...
...swings past six o'clock, with that witness mark,
its gone too far, so you have to take the chuck off
and then just so thread it in one more thread
...for those retention studs.
If it doesn't go down to past 3 o'clock take it off and then...
...loosen it one thread, because you want that witness mark...
...to be between 3 o'clock and six o'clock.
It's hard to see but the mark is right there...
...on the cam lock itself rotation
I'll rotate it up to the 3 position.
That's where it's gotta be to remove the chuck. It's gotta be lined up at 12.
Ok. and then you rotate it around...
...and this is locking it in.
And you want that mark to be...
...between three and six o'clock.
Right there is where you want it to lock up tight.
So you check all the witness marks. This one is about 4 o'clock.
And that one is about the same. So all those studs..
...tightened down to that gauge line are pretty good on this chuck, but if
...get one that's off a little bit you can just adjust to the thread.
And now that I got the check in there...
With the mark but I put on the spindle face,
I can just put another mark up on the chuck itself just so they line up.
Now when I put the chuck on and off, all I have to...
...do is line up those witness marks and then, uh,
any soft jaws I make should repeat pretty well.
So after you have all the lugs...
so that they're at 3 o'clock
...after you've done some cutting it's going to lock up on that taper,
on the face, just give it a rap with a soft...
...hammer,and that's going to loosen it up.
okay. It's not going to fall off because you still got the lugs engaged,
but it's gonna be loose and then you can go ahead and turn these...
...all up to that 12 o'clock position and then remove the chuck.
Okay. So you got the chuck mounted. You got the...
...you got the witness marks stamped on or dremeled in.
Now if you want to put a set of soft jaws on it,
you just take the hard jaws off and you can just make...
...your own aluminum jaws or purchase them.
Just take the screws out.
And as you remove them,
if you look at inside of the jaw, there's going to be a number right here.
Do you see that?
This has got the 3 on it. You might want to take a marker and put a 3 on the outside of this
Or take a dremel and etch it into your master jaw.
So these go back on the same way you take them off
Then when you put soft jaws on just number them also...
so they correspond and then if you ever switch soft jaws...
or you put your hard jaws on, everything is going to repeat real well for you.
That's all there is to mounting the 3-jaw chuck. If you get a 4 jaw chuck it goes...
...through the same steps. It's going to be the same thing
One extra jaw, but the actual installation and...
...removal of the chuck is the same thing.
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