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Nova quick change chuck jaws

Bill Wyko

Bill Wyko

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I saw an ad for the new Nova QC chuck, anyone have one of these yet, and if so, how well does it work and what kind of jaws are available for it.
 
I looked it over pretty closely at the AAW symposium. They have a wide range of jaws and your old chucks can be retrofitted with the new slides to accept the new jaws. I think he also said you could buy the quick release adaptors for the rear of you old jaws but don't quote me on that. My memory aint what it used to be.
 
Bill Rubenstein has been doing quick change jaws on his Stronghold and Talon chucks for quite a while. He removes the roll pin and leaves the inner jaws attached to the outer jaws. It is necessary to buy additional inner jaws, but that is not much different than the way that quick change jaws operate.
 
I use a stronghold, any chance you know where I could see the modification?
 
Bill Wyko said:
I use a stronghold, any chance you know where I could see the modification?
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BIll what Bill said about Bill's method is

He has removed the pin from the jaw that prevents the jaws from being used too wide open where one might fall out during use.
He the keeps opening the chuck until the threaded jaws with the profiled jaws attached come off the scroll threads.
He then has other profiled jaws attached to the threaded jaw which he threads onto the scroll thread the closing the chuck.

Should be a quicker change.
 
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It is only mildly quicker than changing all the screws. I tried it for a while. You do have to keep the inner jaws in the correct order. Might be about the same expense as buying the new inner jaws for the Nova to convert your old Nova chucks.
It takes me about a minute to change jaws using the 8 screw method. Even if it only took 15 seconds to change jaws using one of the new quick release methods is it that much of a time saving thing. Now I will say I've never lost a screw. Dropped one on the floor a time or two but I usually step away from the lathe to do this so no shavings on the floor.
 
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