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Has anyone turned these, I guess the question should be, does anyone know where to get a wine stopper chuck, only ones I can finde are threaded and not for the shopsmith,, thanks for any help..

Jay, you can get THIS Expanding Collet chuck that doubles as a screw chuck. It will perform 2 different operations with one chuck. Also comes with a free Forstner bit for the Expanding Collet function. PSI also sells just the screw chuck by itself if that's all you want. With the addition of THIS adapter, it fits the ShopSmith just fine. I've got one and it works great. The adaptor also works for PSI's Barracuda 4-jaw chucks too.

Woodcraft and Rockler both have wine stopper mandrels which are held in the Jacobs chuck. There are at least two different types, to fit the various thread sizes of the wine stoppers. If you're just going to glue a cork onto a wooden dowel, you can hold the dowel in the Jacobs chuck as well.

Penn State has a wine stopper chuck, but you'd also need to buy an adapter to go from the Shopsmith (5/8" no-thread) to whatever thread size the chuck needs. Penn State carries a "Shopsmith to a 1" by 8 tpi thread" adapter.

http://www.pennstateind.com/store/spindle-adapters.html

Have fun turning!

Gary

Penn State would be my first choice. They know their stuff in this particular area better than most and ship promptly. fjimp

First decide what type of cork you want, I have used both real cork and stainless steel. If you use cork you drill a 3/8" hole and insert a dowel then chuck the dowel into something or you can buy a 3/8" steel dowel with spikes in the end. After drilling the hole you insert the steel dowel, chuck that in the lathe and start turning. I have done the wooden dowel method but you have to be careful not to break the dowel while turning. I have yet to use the steel dowel but will shortly.

If you go with the stainless "corks" they mostly have screws on top that get threaded into the wooded top. With this method you use a screw chuck to do the turning and then just screw on the top.

There are also stainless steel "corks" with small rods coming out the top, then there is a decorative nut that holds everything together. With these you can use either method but you need to drill two concentric holes one for the attachment to the lathe and a much smaller one for the rod.

Thanks for the advise, I seen that wine topper chuck and wasent sure if it would work, this one uses a wood screw and the one it calls for uses a looks like a threaded rod, if it would work then that would probably be the rought I would take, to use the one it calls for I would then have to get the adapter to use on the ss. and for about the same amount of money I could have 3 different chucks instead of 1,, thank you everyone for the help....