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For some applications, the only solution is a really tiny chuck. If that sort of task features in your work, we have a couple
of interesting products that should make your life easier and possibly, safer. So all makers of doll's house furniture, mini boxes, needle cases, lace bobbins, pick-up sticks etc. can at last say that
someone cares for their needs too.The Acrol Midi Chuck was designed by the same folk who brought you the Microclene air filters and who, incidentally, for those with a history in
Woodturning, also invented the old Robot chuck range - one of the stars of their day. That's history however. What we have here is a
small chuck designed to make the turning, and especially repetitive turning, of small objects much less onerous. The chuck is simple to tighten onto the workpiece, requiring a single hand grip on the knurled
collar to tighten or loosen it. (The tommy bar is primarily for convenience when fitting the chuck to and removing it from, the spindle). The chuck is also bored right through so that on
lathes with a hollow spindle (and that's most modern lathes) a length of feedstock timber can be incrementally fed through the spindle as work progresses. The Midi chuck is supplied
with two sets of interchangeable jaws, one suitable for workpiece sizes from 4 mm to 10 mm diameter - or square (this is a four-jaw chuck so it hold squares easily) and a second set for
workpieces from 10 mm to 16 mm diameter/square. The back of the chuck body is directly threaded to screw onto the spindle and the chuck is
available threaded for either M33x3.5mm; 1" x 8 tpi or 3/4" x 16 tpi, covering most popular current lathes.
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