George, you sent this to vanagon list instead of Atlas-Craftsman... <g>

david (Vanagon, Atlas 618 lathe)

At 10:20 PM 7/21/2002, George Averill wrote:
>I finally got a little time to try and use the small Craftsman 109 lathe
>only to discover problems in the chuck.  I needed to remove the jaws in
>order to reverse them.  When I removed them, I discovered that the threads
>inside the chuck were crumbling and falling apart in little pieces.