Re: Do I really need an arbor press ?

"Snag"  wrote in message news:vtfbe4$21ip2$1@dont-email.me...
   If I'm going to mount a drill chuck in my spindle I'll use one of my
tailstock chucks and an adapter sleeve to 3MT. Now I'm curious about how
much runout that setup might have . Maybe I'll look into that tomorrow
after I finish making bread . We're out of everything but loaf bread ...
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Snag
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I do too, for short pieces. The 58B accepts long off-sized rods and dowels through the spindle. I don't have the 58B running completely true yet except in a 4-jaw, but a little runout doesn't matter for many of the small parts mods I make, such as putting dog points and bevels on the ends of screws to make them self-align, or milling a wrench hex on threaded rod, my sawmill's track levelers. The milling has the round work in a lathe chuck or collet mounted in an indexing fixture.
My AA lathe usually has a 1/2" Jacobs thread-mount chuck on its 1/2-20 spindle because I use that faster turning lathe for hand-held filing and polishing where chuck jaws are dangerous. The 58B does the same for the South Bend on work that doesn't fit a collet. It's more nice-to-have than essential but the price was right and I rarely pass up an accessory for that classic lathe, my 1965 Old American Iron and more useful to me than a 65 Mustang.
jsw