[modeleng] Re: Chuck Jaws
- From: cbrumbelow@xxxxxxxxxxx
- To: modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2004 22:17:39 +0000
When I was a kid with little money, I had a fantasy of building a Smith &
Wesson revolver a piece at a time to stay within my weekly budget. Ignoring
for a moment the fitting I couldn't have done, the final cost would have been
several multiples of what an assembled new revolver cost. And have you priced
factory original parts for japanese cars recently? Charles
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>
> 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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