Take your turning to the next level with Axminster Chucks BRITISH MANUFACTURING AT ITS BEST ! An unequalled range of super precision chucks and accessories, all uniquely designed and manufactured by those who truly understand woodturning. Design innovation, combined with excellent materials and superb manufacturing techniques, produce a range of unmatched British made woodturning tools.
The ever-expanding range of Axminster woodturning chucks now covers almost every type of work-holding requirement, from dolls’ house chair legs of just a few millimetres in diameter to 60cm diameter bowls weighing 20kg or more.
Axminster Chucks and Jaws are made from Stainless Steel
Precision-made in high grade stainless steel, the chucks and their associated accessories have been developed over the years, in many cases in discussion with our professional turning friends, to cover almost every eventuality likely to be encountered by the amateur or professional alike. One of our guiding principles has always been to ensure that as many different operations as possible can be carried out without removing the chuck from the lathe. This approach, combined with the provision of multiple gripping diameters on most of the jaws, gives minimum outlay coupled with maximum flexibility of operation. Aside from the Junior chuck which utilises engineering end mill collets to hold small workpieces, all Axminster chucks use the tried and tested scroll mechanism to control the jaw travel. This system provides the dual benefits of a nominal 12mm of radial movement of each jaw in expansion and contraction, and a security of grip onto the work which is unrivalled by any of the collet style chucks on the market. They are also supplied with a set of SafetyJaw accessory mounting jaws with rounded corners which minimise the chance of injury should your fingers get too close to the rotating chuck.
GUIDE TO CHUCK SELECTION To help you choose the most suitable chuck for your application, please see the table opposite. For ease of reference, it lists all the stock thread types which can be used when ordering any of the threaded items, such as chucks, chuck backplates, faceplates and screw chucks.
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1. Register diameter.
Clubman SK80
2. Register length.
Clubman SK100
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Evolution SK114
3. Thread diameter.
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1
4. Combined length of thread and register.
Featuring Unique
5. Thread pitch, either threads per inch or thread pitch if metric.
SafetyJaw Rounded Corners
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Right Hand Threads
JAWS Axminster chucks are without question, some of the finest essential items that any woodturner could possibly desire. To gain maximum benefit and to enable a wide range of projects to be made, they must be used with jaws which securely grip the timber. There’s a huge range of jaw sets from which to choose but firstly they are bolted onto the Accessory Mounting Jaws which are supplied with each chuck. As the bolt hole spacings are identical, all jaws, are in theory, interchangeable but for practical and safety purposes they should be chosen to match the size of the chuck. It’s unsafe and bad practice to have the edges of the jaw extending past the body of the rotating chuck.
Thread Code
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2
3
4
T01
Thread Size 3/4” x 16tpi
Lathe Type Carbatec, Coronet, Record
3/4”
3/16”
3/4”
11/16”
16
T38
33mm x 3.5mm
Axminster 1416VS, 1628VS, Jet 4224B, 2424, 3520B, 1642, 1442, 1015, 1221VS Killinger, Robust
34mm
16mm
33mm
30mm
3.5mm
T38R
33mm x 3.5mm
Extended body with reverse locking
34mm
16mm
33mm
30mm
3.5mm
T04M
1” x 8tpi
Axminster AH-1218, AWSL,/VSL, AWVSL 900/1000, Delta General 160 Sheppach DMS900
1"
1/4"
1"
1.1/8"
8
T03
1” x 12tpi
Myford ML8 (Inboard), Turnstyler
1.1/8"
3/8"
1"
1"
12
T23
1 1/4” x 8tpi
General 260, Powermatic 4224B/3520B
1.1/4"
1/8"
1.1/4"
1"
8
Right Hand/Left Hand Threads Thread Code
Thread Size
Lathe Type
T02RL
1 1/2” x 6tpi
Harrison Graduate and APTC Woodfast Lathes to suit both sides of the headstock
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2
3
4
5
1 1/2”
3/8”
1 1/2”
1 1/8”
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