Join me in the machine shop where I’ll be doing a little reverse engineering and designing a project the old school way… by making a pencil drawing on a drafting table. I have a rotary table that I’d like to make convertible to a rotary chuck. So I’m designing a chuck adapter. But this is more than just your standard adapter plate. I’m going to mimic the D type camlock chuck mechanism on the nose of my manual lathe. This will let me switch chucks from machine to machine quickly. After gathering all of the measurements from the existing chuck mount I’ll move over to the drafting machine and begin the process manual drawing my design with various drafting tools.