The VersaChuck Model 'T' is an 80 mm diameter, four-jaw, self-centring, scroll chuck designed for use by woodturners, especially those using smaller lathes.  As a rough guide, these will be lathes with a "swing" (diametral capacity) of up to 12" (300 mm).  The chuck will hold larger workpieces perfectly adequately in the right hands, but this is a guide for general use.  Matching the spindle threads routinely found on lathes of this type, the Model T is supplied with a choice of either 3/4" x 16 tpi or 1" x 8 tpi mounting bushes.  Like old Henry Ford's original Model T, our tribute to the name is a chuck designed to be both affordable for all lathe users and yet being practical, versatile, robust and reliable in operation - a joy to own and use.

  A bush screwed into the rear of the chuck body carries the spindle mounting thread, allowing the chuck to be adapted to fit onto a variety of lathe spindles.  The model 'T' is supplied with two sets of workholding jaws, each set featuring serrated gripping surfaces (typically know as "gripper jaws"), designed to give an excellent grip in both compression and expansion mounting modes using parallel-sided recesses or spigots.  Such recesses and spigots are much easier to create than an accurately matched dovetail recess of spigot. 

The chuck is operated by the use of two tommy bars which are inserted into holes in the chuck body and the operating ring, respectively.  Unlike most other tommy bar-operated chucks on the market, the Model T boasts four tommy bar holes in each ring so that the levers are never more than ninety degrees apart: in turn this means that any but the most petite-handed operator can grip both tommy bars in one hand to either nip up or release the chuck's hold on the workpiece.  This simple bit of design originality means that you still have one hand free to hold the  workpiece whilst operating the chuck with the other hand.  (Our apologies to all of those triple-handed users that this may now render obsolete - along with their ill-thought-out chucks!!!)

Package contents:

• 80 mm (outside diameter) scroll chuck.  A set of workholding jaws is mounted on the chuck, as delivered, with an internal (compression) grip of 38 mm (1.5") and an external (expansion) grip of 50 mm (2")
• A second set of workholding jaws with a 15 mm internal grip and a 25 mm (1") external (expansion) grip, plus a further 1.5" (38 mm) external (expansion) grip step useful when turning hollow objects such as boxes.
• Mounting bush to suit lathe spindle, ¾" x 16 tpi or 1" x 8 tpi threads only.
• Two tommy bars, which are used to operate the chuck.
• Allen key for workholding jaw removal and replacement.
• User Manual and Operating Instructions.