Hopefully an easy drill chuck question

Ruining the chuck by finger tightening the jaws to a closed position to keep crap out?

Did this short sighted person bother to explain to you, or anyone, how that's "deliberately destroying the chucks" ?

This guy isn't a moron, but with considerable work he could be promoted to one. Given the opportunity, I'd have is suffering ass in front of his superiors for undermining the well being of the shop equipment and the esprit decor of dedicated workers. It is my opinion that you are storing the chucks in the best possible manner. The only improvement would be to have them in a covered enclosure that minimized crap in the first place. You may not have that option.

Harold

The person responsible for your activities, or possibly his boss, makes the rules, with your input, hopefully.

There is nothing wrong with the way you store the tooling. If there is much crap floating about a vinyl sheet flipped over the tooling is a big help. Attached to the back of the rack it is always handy.

Third parties with no duties and mucking about in a tool room / machine shop is a big no-no and fraught with numerous problems. Put your foot down or up, whichever is more effective and appropriate in your situation.

Wolfgang

The Davenport's wrote:

I thought we agreed that chucks should be stored silver soldered to their arbors.

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Remember to store chucks with their jaws pointing North. Not true North but magnetic north unless you can calculate deviation and variation. How much iron do you have in the path of magnetic north? Make sure that they are level and jaw #2 is on top.

True------with the jaws finger tightened to exclude crap (or crud).

H

Heck, just give him a purchase req for a nice Vidmar cabinet to store your tooling in and see where that goes.

Wes S

HA, trick question! Everybody knows that chucks should be stored jaws DOWN!

I made a couple soft delrin plugs, 1" or so then turned down to 1/2" or

5/8" or chuck capacity with a shoulder. I stick this > Good Evening to the Collective!

Thanks, Guys...I was sure that we were doing it right, but ya just never know...we may have been missing something along the line somewhere

Mike

I use old tooth brushs. Just cut off the brush end, get to it.

xman

I put mine in a fireproof safe and keep the combination of the safe with the chuck.

John

At the price of good chucks I would't blame you. If you forget the combination you won't need to worry about the chuck getting worn out.

But has your dog had a doggie door installed like the bush beans dog?

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"The Davenport's" wrote in news:ZOoch.33$ snipped-for-privacy@newsfe02.lga:

I dunno. I stick it inside the column, wrapped in paper, inside the box it came in.

AFAICT, everyone else at work is happy to just leave it in the spindle.

Which would be fine, Dan, except that this is for chucks that are between setups for a VMC...so I'm talking about 18 or so chucks.

Which would be fine, Dan, except that this is for chucks that are between setups for a VMC...so I'm talking about 18 or so chucks.