[modeleng] Re: Trying to identify origin of a chuck

  • From: "Shep" <shep.28@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 20:54:26 +0100

I would be surprised if it was Hardinge - as most of their lathes have a 
tapered, instead of a screwed mandrel nose.

Cheers!   Hubert

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Pagett" <john_pagett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 6:58 PM
Subject: [modeleng] Re: Trying to identify origin of a chuck


> Chris,
>
> I had a nose on Google and 30A seems to come up with Hardinge. 
> Unfortunately
> I've no idea what method of attaching they used.
>
> Cheers,
>
> JohnP
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Chris Crosskey" <chris.crosskey@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 11:23 AM
> Subject: [modeleng] Trying to identify origin of a chuck
>
>
> Hi folks,
> I've got a Burnerd 30A chuck.... Unfortunately my local P-B agents don't
> know what a 30A is .... And they're pretty good, obscure P-B and
> Crawford stuff is usually a doddle for them, they've helped me out with
> advice and bits for obsolete stuff before.... I can't find the normal
> P-B part numbers on it anywhere, the only thing I've managed to find so
> far are the matching numbers for the jaw and scroll (this doesn't mean
> it's one of the more accurate ones does it, I thought P-B selected all
> jaws and scrolls?)
>
> It's a 5" standard scroll 3-jaw and when I got it, it was on a Boxford
> backplate, or at least a 1.5" register/1.5x8tpi thread backplate, which
> to me means Boxford.... Did Boxford do a lathe (or something with their
> nose) called a 30A?
>
> Any help gratefully received cos I'd like to get a set of outside jaws
> for it without having to lug it along to a show and go through one of
> the scrap-merchants box of jaws.....
>
> chrisc
>
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