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Nova Titan Chuck

Donna Banfield

>Well, Lyn, this morning I returned to Woodcraft with the Titan chuck after reading your comments last week about the "clunky operation". The store owner -- who has always been excellant with the products he sells -- pulled another Titan chuck out of the box. The brand new one had the same "stepped" operation, and this one didn't even have jaws on it. By that I mean, the works were harder to operate than the one I brought back. Based on that experience, I returned the Titan and exchanged it for another Super Nova.

I just read your review of the Titan on Fred Holder's site, and your comments about replacing the jaws to get the chuck to return to smooth operation just didn't seem to work for me - and that's really too bad. I had hoped for a different outcome. On the whole, however, I am satisfied with the Nova chuck in general -- or I wouldn't have exchanged the Titan for another Super Nova.

Your experience and opinions are an invaluable tool to woodturners. Thank you.

Donna Banfield

Re: Nova Titan Chuck

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Re: Arrgghhh!

Lyn J. Mangiameli

>How sad, I so hope another good product hasn't fallen prey to Teknatool's occasional lapses in quality control.

My chuck, and Fred's even more so, are some of the earlier chucks that became available, before general distribution of the Titan occured in the US (Fred actually bought his in NZ). So I suppose it is possible that your experience reflects some production change gone wrong.

It would be great if Teknatool or one of their dealers would weigh in on this and let us know if there has been a problem with a particular batch, or if their is some minor adjustment that can rectify these problems.

Thanks for reporting back, and know I will try to learn just what the background situation is on this.

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