Albrecht is the top of the line and is available with a MT2 integral shank. IMHO a close second is Rohm but will require an MT2 arbor to match the chuck taper ( readily available). Jacobs is close to Rohm and is available with a MT2 shank. All the above chucks are expensive. It takes good steel and precision machine tools to make a good chuck. There is no way to make them cheap. Fortunately they are also rebuildable in case the mechanism wears or gets damaged. So you could buy good chuck and it could potentially be a lifetime investment and be moveable from machine to machine as you upgrade. If you can find a used Albrecht in decent shape, you can have it rebuilt to new specs and maybe save some money versus a new chuck of the same type. See Albrecht website.

Import chucks from China are a crap-shoot. Taiwan less so.

Keyless chucks will not drive a drill or tap backwards. It will lose its grip on the tool

RAN

Last edited by RAN; 04/18/20.