A 4 Jaw Chuck Story

[rake60]

At 5:00PM this evening my 50 hour week was finally coming to an end.

One of the young guys of 2ed shift was trying to modify a tap driver to fit
into a part. I walked out of the locker room and he yelled,
"Hey Rick, come look at this!"
He said he had screwed the jaws into what he thought would be close without
scaling them in, stuck the part in and snugged the jaws up.
He turned the chuck and the part ran out .005" He was all grins.

I patted him on the back and told him:
"Don't be discouraged, you'll get better at it as the years come."

He told me to GO HOME, that was my plan in the first place! :big:

Rick

 

[steamer]

What a wise (&&^^! ;D :big:

I hope he treats you nicer on Monday.. ;D

Dave

 

[BobWarfield]

Yep, the old hands always do that, don't they Rick? LOL!

I once was incredibly lucky. I put down a 2-4-6 block, lightly clamped it, and swept it with the intention of indicating it in. My 0.0005" Indicol did not budge. I had set down by eye spot on!

I was so thrilled, I even took a picture:

Then I got to looking at what I was doing and realized this set up was not going to work. I would not have the right travel on the mill to finish the job. The Lucky Setup was all for naught and I tore it down without ever having used it.

Darn!

BW

 

[steamer]

Hey Bob,

Thanks for taking the picture...I do hope you bought a lottery ticket that day.... ;D

Dave

 

[BobWarfield]

I do wish I had, cause I'll sure never see that one again! ???

BW