New toy: Setting up Colchester Student lathe

[Jonathan]

It seems the chuck is not too bad so why not buy new jaws for it.

I'll see if I can find some. I'm worried about if I buy new jaws and find it still doesn't hold accurately due to the scroll being worn for instance.

Edit: Found some jaws, not checked if they're the right ones:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Hard-Inside-Ja...item53e7273419

Considering that whole new chuck is £125 they seem a lot...get what you pay for I suppose.

Using a 4 jaw chuck you will be getting jaw marks on your work so should be avoided at all cost you just cannot get the correct even grip without marks. Then add the time for centreing.

I've avoided that in the past on some things by putting strips of aluminium or copper in between the jaw and the work. That won't grip it as well though. Centreing is only a couple of minutes with two chuck keys (I'll make another) - but still annoying to do.