Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all modeleng@freelists.  Dennis,  Good to know that someone else has a battered D-W !  I bought a Vertex (which I gather is a Clark type), probably from Chronos. It comes in a nice box, with three collets and a wopping great spanner.....but no instructions. At least a flat-pack from IKEA comes complete with pictograms...a vast improvement on the martian tomes that accompany electronic gadgetry. Would-be model engineers are assumed to know how to fit/strip/use tools and attachments safely and successfully. Oh, yes?!  The Vertex chuck is, I think, well made, and I would recommend it. My only reservation would be that I wonder if other designs of milling chuck might be more suitable for the D-W. My current project, heading for the scrap-bin, is a pair of cylinders for the Paul Forsyth 'Jersey Lilly' design in Gauge 1. I purchase two slot drills (one-sixteenth and one-eighth)from Chronos to mill the steam ports, but I found that they are not long enough to engage with the nipple in the chuck, and if they were, I would never get the darned things out! Chronos have kindly agreed to exchange the slot-drills for the long series, but I am still waiting for them to arrive.  I suspect that there are other milling chucks more suitable for small machines, but I have no experience of them. I did wonder about trying the ER25 collet chuck, but a problem I find with this on my lathe is that if I remove a work piece from it and re-insert it, it does not run true, so I have to undo the chuck and rotate the workpiece several times before it is as near as dammit.  Nothing is straight-forward in this game!  Best wishes,  Jem Harrison Basildon UK --- On Fri, 26/12/08, Dennis Rayner <dennis.rayner@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: From: Dennis Rayner <dennis.rayner@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: [modeleng] Re: O/T Christmas greetings To: modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: Friday, 26 December, 2008, 10:46 AM Santa was good to me - he brought me a book on milling (never had any training in my life) AND spending money! I've come to the conclusion that I should replace my old Clare chuck with a new one for my rather battered Dore-Westbury. I wondered if any of the (UK?) group members had any recomendations as to make /model/suppliers? The D/W has a #2 MT fixing. Thanks in advance for any advice. Dennis MODEL ENGINEERING DISCUSSION LIST. To UNSUBSCRIBE from this list, send a blank email to, modeleng-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe" in the subject line. MODEL ENGINEERING DISCUSSION LIST. To UNSUBSCRIBE from this list, send a blank email to, modeleng-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe" in the subject line.