Expanding collet chuck

Well made. Performs as advertised.

Love this chuck

Very simple to use, just use the supplied bit and chuck the piece of wood. Wood did not slip or get out of position when turning. Price was right. Would like to see a better way to tighten the jaws. Once figured out the chuck worked as advertised and more.

OK for the money

Did the job

Expanding Collet

Received collet for making pocket watches. Takes a little getting used to but overall worked great. Was able to turn several watches with ease.

Chuck

The expanding chuck works great, but the screw can be a problem. Just as other reviews mention, getting the screw out can ruin it. I found that if you leave appx 1" of a nub you can part off the project leaving the screw in the waste wood. Then you just take a wood chisel and carefully split the waste wood off from around the screw. Now you can reuse the undamaged screw chuck again.

Handy little helper

I have a number of clocks to turn using 1 3/8" inserts. This chuck is perfect for this application. It securely holds my workpiece and runs true even after rechucking. My only complaint: I do have a little trouble getting the piece to release from time to time.

1-3/9

The expanding collet chuck works fine, but the center screw option is a pain. The screw will not center as there is so much slop in the threads and I'm not sure the hole is perfectly centered either.

LittleChuck

I found that this chuck is an excellent addition to my lathe tools

1-3/8 Expanding Collet Chuck

This is such a great item that I own two.

good chuck poor screw

This a good expanding collet chuck that I thought would do double duty, but it doesn't. I bought it when I needed a screw chuck, thinking the added functionality would be a plus. I was wrong. The back hold screw doesn't hold well, which spells trouble if the working screw gets stuck in the piece. I couldn't remove mine without destroying the threads. Next time I'll buy a dedicated screw chuck. The collet chuck function works great, holds well if your tools are sharp and you use it after you've hogged out the heavy shaping.