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greitz wrote:Paul- can you make a temporary sleeve with heat-shrink tubing (used for insulating electrical connections, among other things)? You can use multiple layers to get whatever thickness you want, then carefully cut it off your dowel with a razor blade when you're finished turning.

A lower-tech solution might be just carefully wrapping the dowel with masking tape, or wrapping each pin jaw with tape.

Gary

Tried the tape but it fails before the turning is finished, thanks for the suggestion though.

Dont know if this is what you are looking for but will share anyways.

2" 3 way reversible micro chuck 39.95
3" 44.95
5" 49.95

They also have a few 4 way reversible chucks to ranging in price from 24.95 to 49.95

http://www.grizzly.com/catalog/2009/Main/131

No affiliation

For something that small you might look into collet chucks or dowel chucks...

http://www.woodturnerscatalog.com/store ... llet?Args=

WOW those collet chucks are expensive!


http://www.woodturnerscatalog.com/store ... huck?Args=


I would go for the dowel chuck, and even though it looks like a drill chuck, the difference is that the teeth aren't as aggressive and so won't mar your wood (as much).

affyx wrote:For something that small you might look into collet chucks or dowel chucks...

http://www.woodturnerscatalog.com/store ... llet?Args=

WOW those collet chucks are expensive!


http://www.woodturnerscatalog.com/store ... huck?Args=


I would go for the dowel chuck, and even though it looks like a drill chuck, the difference is that the teeth aren't as aggressive and so won't mar your wood (as much).

DUH! sorry these aren't for shopsmiths! both require #2MT's...

affyx wrote:For something that small you might look into collet chucks or dowel chucks...

http://www.woodturnerscatalog.com/store/Chucks___Collet___No__2_MT_Collet_System___2mt_collet?Args=

WOW those collet chucks are expensive!


http://www.woodturnerscatalog.com/store/Projects___Bottle_Stoppers___Dowel_Chuck___dowel_chuck?Args=


I would go for the dowel chuck, and even though it looks like a drill chuck, the difference is that the teeth aren't as aggressive and so won't mar your wood (as much).

None of these will fit a Shopsmith.

Home Depot still has some of the Oneway chuck kits (with the 5/8" plain adapter) available online at the sale price. The kits with the 3/4" 16-thread adapter are out of stock.

HD is also running a "$5 off of orders over $50" Black Friday coupon special... it's good through the weekend (expires on Monday, I think). Just enter "BFRIDAY" in the promo coupon field. This coupon code does work on orders for the already-discounted Oneway chuck... I just ordered one and got both savings.

WoodCraft.com has their Teknatool SupernovaII chuck for sale again. Yes it is "made in China" and the one I got a month ago is an excellent chuck.

http://www.woodcraft.com/Product/202071 ... e=09IN12NL

Hi Paul,

>Tried the tape but it fails before the turning is finished, thanks for the suggestion though.

I find tape too fragile, too. I usually wrap something a little small with some of the 600 grid sandpaper tape I use for sanding pens.