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I am looking for a tail stock drill chuck for my 1941 10ER. Most seen on ebay and such have a tapered post for insertion into the tail stock. My 10ER has a live center installed at present and it appears to be held in the tailstock with two jam nuts on a threaded shaft.

What should I be looking for and is it special for the 10ER.

BTW I installed a tread mill motor and controller in place of the fixed speed motor so I now have a variable speed drive. Quite easy to do.

Thanks

The "nut and bolt" form an adjustable (for alignment) #2 Morse Taper socket, that the live center is set in. Tap on the back of the live center and it should come out.

Any #2 MT drill chuck should then work.

Or you can get a tailstock chuck arbor and mount your Shopsmith drill chuck on that, I think this is the more versatile option as you can also mount a face-plate or scroll chuck on it for transferring the part turned blank.
https://www.shopsmith.com/ownersite/cat ... arbors.htm

Thanks so much for the reply. I'll take out the live center and check for the taper. I suspect any #2 taper will fit so all I have to do is select a chuck. I'm tending to a Jacobs rather then non Jacobs just because I have used the keyed chuck for many years. I don't feel you can get as good a grip on the drill with the twist type chuck.

Thanks again,
wings515

As Ron pointed out the Tailstock Chuck Adapter is for using the Drill Chuck that comes with the Shopsmith. It is a less costly way of using a Drill Chuck in the Tailstock than having a dedicated Drill Chuck with a #2 Morse Taper.

There were 4 different versions of the Tailstock assemblies. The first 2 were for the Model 10E and the Wood Extension Table. Versions 3 and 4 were for the Metal Extension Table and are the only ones that came on the Shopsmith Model 10ER. They have the 2 piece Floating Center to adjust the tailstock center shown below.

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When assembled correctly the nut will be on the side the Extension Table mounts to.

I do have to ask how you came up with the year 1941 for your Shopsmith Model 10ER? The first Shopsmith tool, the Model 10E came out in 1947.

EDIT:

You posted while I was writing my post, so here is an addition.

The Drill Chuck that came with the Shopsmith Model 10ER was the Jacobs 3326 and attached directly to the spindle with a set screw. If you have that chuck use it with the Tailstock Chuck Adapter. The Tailstock has a standard #2 taper so any #2 will fit.