Who has machine tools?!?

[SuperActionMan]

I’m going to make a ring with some set screws so I can catch the groove and pull that sleeve off with my bearing puller.

in order to do that I need to be able to use a Chuck on my lathe. However my lathe came to me with a 5C collet changer (no Chuck) and a turret (no tailstock). So I got a 5C Chuck forever ago and it doesn’t thread on correctly. The Chuck threads seem to interfere after a few turns.

I decided to try to fix that and got a die to chase the threads. It’s a 65mm die and my few ideas on how to turn it without the handle have not worked all that well. Was hoping to avoid having to buy the handle to use it one time, but here we are. Tank reg for scale. This thing is beefy.

What methods have you tried so far?

What do you do with your chips? I try to recycle as best I can in general, but does anyone know what the recyclers will actually process instead of just throwing away?

You might have to look around to find a place that takes mixed turnings as scrap and even then it's not going to pay much. I don't bother saving them for the small stuff I do even when it's copper or titanium. Well, sometimes I save the titanium ones and light them on fire or use the ribbony ones to dial-in an anodize color.