[modeleng] Re: Chuck Jaws
- From: Allen Messer <al_messer@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 12:28:50 -0700 (PDT)
OUCH!!
Al Messer
--- Roger Mason <roger.g3tdm@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Just thought you might be interested in this
> little event / story.
>
> I saw a guy advertising a set of chuck jaws on
> e-Bay. It sounded
> as they would fit my 160 mm chuck, but when I
> contacted him, he
> assured me that mine had an imperial scroll,
> whereas his jaws were for
> a metric scrolled model.
>
> He recommended that I contact a company called
> Thame Engineering,
> who manufactured chuck jaws. They turned out to be
> very helpful, but
> assured me that Pratt Bernerd did not allow anyone
> to make hardened jaws
> for their chucks, one had to buy from Pratt
> Bernerd. The guy asked me
> if I would like to know how much a new set would be
> - he asked if I was
> sitting down - a new set of jaws would be GBP206!!!
> He told me that it
> was far cheaper to buy a brand new chuck of the same
> size, complete
> with two sets of jaws, from the same manufacturer -
> GBP163.
>
> Can you believe that??
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> Roger Mason, in St. Agnes.
>
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