[stephen low]

Just don't leave the chuck key in the chuck - that just makes a mess if you let her rip - lol!!

Had that one beaten into me when I did my auto-machining apprenticeship.

But then I did see a horrible near miss of exactly this as the forgotten key broke free of a chuck one day and flew past that apprentices's face to luckly land harmlessly if very noisely elsewhere far away in the the machining shop.

I'd swear the trainers were all ex-Vietnam Sergeants by the way they roared at that poor bloke afterwards. He was ashen enough from the close personal call.

All looks like fun Mike but I just haven't the time or equipment to tinker like that these days.

I've also probably forgotten more than I was ever taught on the niceties of all those machine shop skills too - Ha

Slo-some