I recently bought a cheap (small) lathe) it's only about 3x12, and possibly a zyto (althoough unbadged)
At the moment, it's got two drill chucks on it - a "foreign" make hand-tightened chuck of about 1/4" capacity mounted on the tailstock, and a jacobs no.34 mounted on the headstock.
no tapers in sight.
The tailstock chuck is threaded onto a (about) 5/8" BSF which is integral to the tailstock slide (ie, the threaded part can't be removed to insert a centre)
and the headstock arbor ends in a male thread to which the chuck is screwed.
main question - I want to make a face plate to fit on the headstock - does anyone have any idea what type of thread a no. 34 jacobs chuck would have?
I'm assuming it's a 45/64 16 - it's too big for a 5/8" 16
where can I get a tap for this size thread?
I don't have any gears for the screw cutting, so I can't cut it from scratch!