Pool Cue Maintenance on SS Lathe

[bdhoward]

First a little background in my first post...

I just picked up a used SS off of Craigs List. I haven't used it yet. Spent the holidays trying to get through all the maintenance procedures. It is a '92 and obviously had much use with no maintenance. I am making progress.

I am not new to the ShopSmith way of life. My dad bought a 510 in '89 when when I was in the 9th grade. We spent the best of our days in the garage with that machine. I have wanted one ever since leaving the comfort of home. Now, nearly 20 years after being introduced to the ShopSmith, I have mine.

Now for my question. I am an avid pool player and want to maintain pool cues and possibly try my hand at making a pool cue on my SS. I have found cue maintenance arbors on pool specific web sites, but I know that they won't mount on the SS. I have included a link to the type of arbor that would be necessary. Does anybody have any ideas on some sort of SS arbor that these arbors could be mounted in.

http://www.cuestik.com/store/product.as ... EM_ID=5821

Thanks for any help.

[a1gutterman]

First a little background in my first post...

I just picked up a used SS off of Craigs List. I haven't used it yet. Spent the holidays trying to get through all the maintenance procedures. It is a '92 and obviously had much use with no maintenance. I am making progress.

I am not new to the ShopSmith way of life. My dad bought a 510 in '89 when when I was in the 9th grade. We spent the best of our days in the garage with that machine. I have wanted one ever since leaving the comfort of home. Now, nearly 20 years after being introduced to the ShopSmith, I have mine.

Now for my question. I am an avid pool player and want to maintain pool cues and possibly try my hand at making a pool cue on my SS. I have found cue maintenance arbors on pool specific web sites, but I know that they won't mount on the SS. I have included a link to the type of arbor that would be necessary. Does anybody have any ideas on some sort of SS arbor that these arbors could be mounted in.

http://www.cuestik.com/store/product.asp?DEPARTMENT_ID=190&ITEM_ID=5821

Thanks for any help.

Brian,
I am knot an experienced turner, but could you mount those arbors in a lathe chuck? Such as the OneWay Talon that SS offers? It looks like the cue maintenance arbors are too small for the Talon chuck, but are there smaller capacity chucks?

edit: these are the chucks that SS offers: http://www.shopsmith.com/ownersite/catalog/l_onewaychucks.htm

[james.miller]

You can buy #1 jaws for most chucks I bought mine at Woodcraft. The 4-jaw chucks I have used for wood turning are not high precision like a machinist's chuck but with a little experimenting you should get good results.

[a1gutterman]

You can buy #1 jaws for most chucks I bought mine at Woodcraft. The 4-jaw chucks I have used for wood turning are not high precision like a machinist's chuck but with a little experimenting you should get good results.

Hi James,

#1 jaws allow smaller diameter capacity then?

[pinkiewerewolf]

Brian, welcome to the forum!
Pool cues just might peek my interest in lathe turning.
If you can post up some pictures of your cues that would be great. I've seen some beautiful custom cues over the last 30 years.

[charlese]

Hi James - Welcome to the forum.

Can you explain how the right angle arbors would work? I don't understand how these could be used on a lathe. I can understand how these other kind would however. http://www.cuestik.com/images/upload/it ... _maint.jpg

I suggest you contact the cue maintenance folks and ask them how they affix their arbors to their lathe. Then we can go from there.

From the limited research I just did it sounds like these arbors attach to a "Unilock" system on a tripod, like a camera tripod.

[bdhoward]

Chuck,

If I understand your question... The original link I posted was not a picture of right angle arbors... There is just one sitting behind the other. One for the shaft (female) and one for the butt (male). So they are essentially the same as the uniloc arbors. The only difference between a uniloc and the others is that a uniloc pin securely connects the shaft and butt with only about 1.5 turns instead of 5-10 with other pins

[cincinnati]

I know when Shopsmith had a retail store in Cincinnati they had jigs for making pool cue's on the Shopsmith. A customer was into that type of woodworking and they came up with some jigs for him. Sorry I do not remember what they were or how made. Anyone remember from Cincinnati?

[jbooher]

A Oneway Talon chuck with spigot jaws should work. Any of the chucks that fit Shopsmith with a spigot jaws will work also. The Shopsmith with its lathe and boring should work well on pool cues.

[JPG]

Do I understand your intentions correctly?

The items you pictured mate to the pieces mounted into the joint of a pool cue.

You want to be able to adapt these items to the ss spindle to turn the cues.

The od of the 'couplers' being .625 will not fit any ss chuck.

?? Is the embedded end of the couplers solid? If so could they be turned down to 1/2 inch?

After turning them down to 1/2", they could be inserted into either a 1/2" drill chuck or a 1/2" router chuck.

P.S. Is the .625 dimension in the pix the od of the mating part or the smaller part behind them. Is smaller portion already < .5 in????