Is? your current chuck a direct mount or does it have a mounting
back plate?? Also the standard size three jaw chuck for a Lot 3 4 and 5 was
four inches.? The standard offered 4 jaw was a five inch.? There are a number
of fairly good quality 4 inch three jaw chucks available on a number of eBay
sites.? As to new mounting back plates there are none to be had so you have to
make them.? I have made new back plates for a Dalton? Lot 3 4 and 5 using a 1
inch 10 back plate meant for a small Atlas or Craftsman lathe. ?These usually
have sufficient material around the spindle thread that allow you to open them
up to Dalton size of 1 ? - 12.
Hello, guys. I am reaching out to see if anyone has managed
to come up with a good solution for replacing the chuck on their Dalton Lot 5.
The chuck that came with my lathe was in pretty?bad shape and really seems
to be where a lot of my eccentricity is coming from. Is there a modern option
that I could throw money at to bring things up to modern accuracy standards?
Any tips or techniques for truing the original one? I don't see any sort of
truing options.?