jewel chucks….

[tmac1956]

All:

I’m working on making a “poor man’s” screw head polisher and I was just wondering if I could use old brass jewel chucks to hold the screws in an 8MM collet by just pushing out the center part.

Thanks everyone!
Tom

[chris mabbott]

I’m sure you could Tom, or you could hold them in a collet?

I use my 6mm lathe for polishing as the screw head polisher doesn’t work on the American style rounded screws. What are you using for the polishing part, a stone, burnisher…?

[tmac1956]

Chris:

For flat parts, I have some oil based diamond polishing paste in various grits (measured in microns). I have several pieces of cork allocated to various grits and I just grab a legal pad, apply the paste, and start twisting back and forth. For flat screws, I’ve simply been holding them in a pin vice and doing pretty much the same thing. For American screws, I been attempting to follow Stephen Pahlow’s method.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYamLPIrvr8

For pivots, I use the Jacot (no paste only burnishers) and for gears I just hand polish them using the fingers and the paste. Additionally, I’m working on a scheme for doing snailing as well – not there yet. I have 8MM collets down to #2 so I could probably get by with using those as you say.

Later,
Tom

[gerene]

Those Stephen Pahlow video’s are really educational! I love to watch them and can only envy him for such a nice workshop and so much craftmanship!
Thanks for pointing me to them, I enjoy them every time.

Jan

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