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Removing a chuck...

Strap wrench on the wrong way round!

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Bob11/08/2010 20:03:48
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Fig 5 Page 43 is labelled Removing a chuck, but the strap wrench is shown in the correct position for tightening the chuck.
 
I always find that  jambing a block of wood between a chuck jaw and the rear shear of the lathe and then engaging back gear and pulling the belt in reverse (by hand) will loosen even the most stubbon chuck.
 
It would seem to me that there is something wrong if you need a strap wrench to put the chuck on.
 
Bob
wheeltapper12/08/2010 10:24:48
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I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed that, I was going to post something but I thought Why make waves.
I've had a few posts deleted before now and the powers that be don't like criticism so I kept quiet..
 
Roy
Flying Fifer12/08/2010 11:38:18
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When i received the latest MEW that cover picture was the first thing i noticed then I found it repeated inside the mag. Is it a joke I thought, surely not? Like you Roy I held back from commenting & I agree with Bob re "putting on" a chuck with a strap wrench or any other means than by hand.
 
Alan
KWIL12/08/2010 15:30:54
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I emailed the Editor the day it arrived, yes he had noticed it!! Perhaps the mag layout people do not understand.
JasonB12/08/2010 16:38:04
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I don't think its the layout people flipping the image to suit front page layout as the gearbox is in the correct position on the lathe, if it were reversed the lathe would look wrong.
 
Just a badly posed photo me thinks.
 
Jason
KWIL12/08/2010 16:47:43
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I did not like to say that!!
Richard Parsons12/08/2010 18:30:38
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It probably had to be posed that way otherwise the bar would have 'flolloped' downwards
JasonB12/08/2010 18:42:28
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I think someone is holding the bar, either that or the loose end of the strap is defying gravity.
 
J
wheeltapper12/08/2010 19:10:00
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possibly the person who wrote the caption doesn't know how a strap wrench works,
 
Roy
Martin W12/08/2010 19:16:54
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Richard
 
Thank you for reminding me of a word from youth, flolloped, I haven't heard it for years and it immediately brought a smile to my face . It is so descriptive and even the sound of it describes the loose floppy collapse of something or somebody.
 
I too noticed the error in the pictures on receipt of the mag and thought its going to a lot of effort to unscrew it that way .
 
Cheers
 
Martin
Nicholas Farr13/08/2010 22:42:18
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Maybe its a left handed lathe! like the the left handed screwdriver you used to send apprentices after.
Nick.
Jeff Dayman13/08/2010 23:16:45
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Anytime I've had a stuck one a strap wrench as shown in photo would be absolutely useless regardless of the direction it was applied.
 
Generally  you need a lot more hold than that.
 
In extreme cases I have put a 3/4 x 3/4 x 3 foot bar in the jaws with the power plug out and belts and gearbox engaged to lock the spindle. A sharp rap with a dead blow or copper or lead hammer usually will start the chuck moving.
 
Use of back gear is not advisable to lock the spindle for this procedure because under these extreme conditions teeth can be knocked out of the gears easily.
 
a toolmakers clamp across a belt between the pulleys will often lock the drive solid enough.
 
Play safe
 
JD
 
 
ZigFire13/08/2010 23:35:28
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Posted by Nicholas Farr on 13/08/2010 22:42:18:
Maybe its a left handed lathe! like the the left handed screwdriver you used to send apprentices after.
Nick.
 I had a left handed screw driver once, problem was it could only undo left handed threaded screws.
 
Michael
Flying Fifer13/08/2010 23:46:47
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This is begining to sound like the long stand we used to send apprentices to get from stores. Happy days!!
Alan
Sam Stones14/08/2010 00:02:46
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Then, since there's a predominance of steam enthusiasts in ME, you will also remember being sent for a bucket of the stuff?

And what about bedding blue on the doll’s eye magnifying while reading the vernier, and the suggestion to swap eyes to get a better reading?

There appears to be no end to these jokes.
 
Anyway, it's fun to look back!
 
Sam
KWIL14/08/2010 10:13:19
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That Myford has a spindle lock and you do not need to engage anything else to prevent or retard rotation.
Stub Mandrel14/08/2010 21:09:38
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Martin you may be of similar vintage to me: I'm sure "flollop" is what the sentient matresses did in "The Hitchikers' Guide to the Galaxy", though it smacks of Lewis Carrol.
 
Neil
frank brown20/08/2010 18:20:19
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  It is a nice strap wrench, I  confess I have never seen one before. FWIW I use an old seat belt removed from my Brothers Vauxhall VX 490 in 1968 and 24" of 2" X 1". Also works on Briggs and Stratton flywheels.

       Frank

Stub Mandrel20/08/2010 21:32:46
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I re-read the article that refers to the picture (not the caption) and it's headed 'fitting and removing chucks' so perhaps he was nipping it up tight?
 
Neil
Gordon W21/08/2010 09:35:08
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I've revisited the strap-wrench photo, in the article he does say "tightening a chuck". BTW an old timing belt makes a good strap wrench.
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