Knowledge You Can Build On — Est. 1998
Does anyone have information..>>
RonZ
>..>> on how to make an eccentric chuck?
Thanks for the advice on the thinner. They have one here called nitro and it worked. It said Tolul in English which is similar to toluelene which is in the sealer. There is a translation gap here in Israel the word for front axel on a car is front back axel. In short it did what I wanted. It goes on faster and soaks in deeper on the first coat.
Here's a Bunch of Leads *LINK*
Garrett in Victoria
>An internet search turns up some very interesting possibilities, esp the one titled "Eccentric Turning" which has complete instructions.
Cheers, Garrett
Eccentric Chuck
Re: Does anyone have information..>>
Pascal Oudet
>it depends on what you mean with excentric.
if you are familiar with JF Escoulen type (ball and socket), you can get approximately the same result, by turning a sphere shape at the end of your piece of wood. then chuck it in your vicmarc chuck with the long shark jaws. you can then adjust the orientation and angle of the wood. (the problem is that you can't exactly come back to the original position).
Ken Grunke also recently posted on WOW a picture of an "offset chuck" he made.
Pascal
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RonZ
>Thanks! Nice piece BTW, did you finish it?
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Pascal Oudet
>I don't have any picture of this stuff "finished", it was just turned to illustrate turning long and thin spindles (look for "spindle" in the Reviews section of WOW.
excentric turning is something really fun to do during shows/craftfairs. people are very interested in it. especially when they come while the piece is spinning (so they can't really see what's happening), and then you stop the lathe: "how do you do that?"
Pascal
