Well, unfortunately the beauty is skin deep. Here's an example of the jaw and screw threads. The jaw threads actually look cast, and the marks on the side look like bandsaw cuts to me. The screw threads are so rough, somebody on whatever device turned that out must have been deaf to chatter. I can't even trade jaws around because the threads are so bad. Three jaws run acceptable, as is, but the 4th has such bad tolerance that it rocks in its groove, which is the only way they drove that on that particular screw.
I'm going to have to live with this chuck, as the return date passed a couple weeks ago, and I threw away the box and packing. Heh, I spent too much time casting and machining my own backing plate in iron. It's a thing of beauty, but it was a waste to assume what it matches was made with any care at all. Basically the Shars 6" 4-jaw is just a lump of shined up surface ground metal surrounding a few hacked chunks more.
I'm not complaining , mind you........
I'm going to have to live with this chuck, as the return date passed a couple weeks ago, and I threw away the box and packing. Heh, I spent too much time casting and machining my own backing plate in iron. It's a thing of beauty, but it was a waste to assume what it matches was made with any care at all. Basically the Shars 6" 4-jaw is just a lump of shined up surface ground metal surrounding a few hacked chunks more.
I'm not complaining , mind you........