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bennymk

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Hello Guys,

I was just wondering if anyone knows what size chuck i can put on my union drill? The bolt the chuck goes onto is reading 17.8mm on my calipers

Cheers
 
That's not an easy question to answer.
Your old drill was presumably made with non-metric threads. You need to (a) convert your measurement to a fractional inch size and (b) note the number of threads per inch then (c) find those numbers together on a chart listing standard thread sizes.

So if, for example, you measured the outside diameter as 12.7 mm and counted 16 threads per inch, 12.7 mm converts to half an inch. Looking on a thread chart you would see that a half inch BSF (British Standard Fine) thread has 16 threads per inch, so that would possibly be the thread you need on the back of the chuck.

It soon gets complicated though - as far as I know, nobody makes chucks to those old standards now, so you would be looking for a second hand one. Chucks are not always marked with the thread size, so anyone with an old chuck knocking around might not know what they have. But if you know what you need, some kind soul on here might have one, waiting to come in useful.

Note that I made my example easy by picking 12.7 mm. As far as I can see, 17.8 mm is bigger than 11/16" (17.462 mm) but nearly the next size up which is 45/64" (17.859 mm). Would anyone have made a chuck to fit on a 45/64" thread? I've no idea - did I say this quickly gets complicated?

Was the person who sold you the drill without a chuck quite pleased that you bought it?
 
Can you put up a photo of what you have?
On some of these drills the chuck was easily removable, if you have one of these, then a modern chuck, with modification could be made to fit.

Bod.
 
Another possibility, if you can find a co-operative local machine shop or model engineer, would be to turn the threaded end down to a Jacobs taper.
 
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