Yard sale find of the year

[gld]

Well actually it's been a couple of years ago now. I only paid $1 for it. It's been setting on the shelf waiting on me to do something with it, and since I have a new to me Lagun knee mill, I decided I'd better get an arbor for this chuck. I've searched all the popular tool houses plus duck duck go, and Google, and the only one I could find came up on eBay out of India.

334275227184 for sale | eBay

After watching some of the You Tube videos from the machinist over there, I wonder about the quality of this item. I wouldn't mind spending the 55 bucks, but if it has bad run out ,I wouldn't be a happy camper. So what do you fellows think, should I go for it or not??

 

[kuhncw]

Gary, what taper is the chuck mount?
I've got some spare R8s for drill chucks.

Chuck

 

[gld]

Hi Chuck

It's threader M12 X 1.25

 

[trlvn]

I'll give you $2 for it!



Craig

 

[kuhncw]

Hi Gary,

Oh. Missed that.

If you can cut metric threads, you might consider making a straight shank mount to hold with an R8 collet.
Doing small work, I got tired of cranking the mill table down enough to get the R8 mount in and out of the spindle when changing between the chuck and R8 collet for the milling cutter. I changed my chucks to straight shank mounts.

Chuck

 

[gld]

Turns out someone may have put a threaded insert in this chuck. I'll have to disassemble and see.

 

[gld]

This chuck project will have to be put on hold. I was in the middle of putting a DRO on my Lagun mill and just thought I would get an arbor ordered for this chuck so I wouldn't have to remove the one on my other mill. So back to the DRO I go.

 

[stevehuckss396]

No! Screw the dro. Let's get this chuck deal figured out.

 

[gld]

NO. Got to make a clamp to hold the chuck so i can unscrew it. And I'm to busy on working on the DRO.

 

[stevehuckss396]

Oh mannnn.

 

[dazz]

Hi
This is easy to solve. Just send me the chuck and your problems are over.

 

[Richard Hed]

Well actually it's been a couple of years ago now. I only paid $1 for it. It's been setting on the shelf waiting on me to do something with it, and since I have a new to me Lagun knee mill, I decided I'd better get an arbor for this chuck. I've searched all the popular tool houses plus duck duck go, and Google, and the only one I could find came up on eBay out of India.

334275227184 for sale | eBay

After watching some of the You Tube videos from the machinist over there, I wonder about the quality of this item. I wouldn't mind spending the 55 bucks, but if it has bad run out ,I wouldn't be a happy camper. So what do you fellows think, should I go for it or not??

Chances are the runout is fine on the Indian part--the hardness/toughness will be horrible.

 

[packrat]

You can send it in for repair, if it can't be repaired the company will sell you new one 1/2 price {search online for Albright chuck repair}..
I think Royal Products does the repair work for Albright chucks...

 

[gld]

Well, I finally got the DRO installed :whoohoo: and got the chuck disassembled, cleaned and reassembled.

Thank you Tom in this video:

It was really cruddy inside, and has some outside damage that will not effect its function. As you can see it did have a threaded insert. All I need now is a R8 adapter.

Thanks for looking in.

 

[packrat]

Those are nice chucks, no wonder they cost so much..

 

[kuhncw]

Gary, what is the taper in the chuck. I've got a couple spare R8 chuck mounts.

Chuck