[modeleng] Re: Chuck Jaws
- From: "Terry Lane" <tel@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2004 05:53:56 +1000
Well & truly believe it Rog - was it Henry Ford who said he would give his
cars away free if he could get exclusive rights to the spare parts market?
> 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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