O/T Lathe chucks

[Smit]

Hi folks,

We are needing to purchase a new chuck for our CNC lathe, a mori seiki. Can anybody recommend a brand of chuck that is good quality and a reasonable price? Our tool purchasing person is looking at kitigawa chucks and would like to know if they would be a good choice.

Thanks in advance,

Smit

[McRae]

Fantastic Choice - In fact - Every Mori I have worked on had a Kitagawa. If you like German stuff, SMW is fine.

[Jim Whipple]

Kitagawa would also be my cchoice. I have've had one on my Okuma sence 89....

No problems yet

jIM

[MACHINEMASTERG]

yes good choice thats what we buy for our lathes

[MetalMarvels]

Kitagawa is the only way to go in my admittedly limited book...... We switched to one on our Mori at my day job - great chuck.

[mold100]

Definate (sp?) winner here also.On our manuals however we us Bison,But Kitagwa #1 cnc chuck.

[mold100]

[ 09-12-2002, 12:08 AM: Message edited by: mold100 ]

[chris m]

We have several Kitagawas that run well for us.

 

We also have a 13" Powerhold high-speed chuck that has been very reliable for many years.

 

Both our Kitagawas and our Powerhold are the serrated jaw type and are limited in their setup repeatability because of this [all of this type of chuck have that issue]

 

We have an SMW Autoblock 10" chuck with their quick-change jaw system which is quite nice and very reliable. The BIG downside to this chuck is the cost of the jaw blanks (around $400 a set). We typically offset this by boring both sides of the jaws [as they are reversible] which gives us two sets of jaws for every one set of blanks. This chuck is very easy to change over and the jaws repeat very well after change, but the chuck and jaws are more expensive because of this feature [of course].

 

The chuck for you depends on what you need; if you are realistic about what you want the chuck to do, it is much easier to make the right selection

[roy g. biv]

Nothing but Kitagawa.

[Smit]

Thanks for the feedback guys. I'm going to forward this thread to my purchasing person. Looks like we'll be getting the Kitagawa.

[McRae]

A word of caution,

 

Herd all the Bison and run them off the cliff. Stick to Kitagawa.

[chris m]

quote:

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Herd all the Bison and run them off the cliff

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We ought to have a "best one-liners" area on this forum, because that is pretty damned funny

 

"hi-Jacked" was good, too, Andrew