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  1. slipstream44

    Reference datum on position and profile callout

    Please re-think your + .005/ -.000 lower tolerance for the .190 dia DATUM A. If you wish to keep it, you should add MMB in the FCF.
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    Drawing Checking

    KENAT: Yes, during my career with what is quaintly referred to around here as "The Navy Base", I wore many hats. Designer, Checker, Configuration Manager, Project Manager; eventually became the de facto Checker due largely to the need for such a position. The volume of drawings being prepared...
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    Drawing Checking

    It generally boils down to how much trust is warranted a "checker"; and what actually defines him/her. There is little use for a tyrant in any scientific endeavor. The checker must gain an implicit level of confidence from his/her contemporaries, otherwise....well, you said it fine, you will...
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    Drawing Checking

    Typically I would make certain an imposing figure of management was chairing the meeting, if for no other reason than to establish the scope/boundaries of that gathering. It tended to weed out the casual shooting-from-the-hip types who were posturing for attention. As far as I was concerned...
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    Drawing Checking

    It's all swell now; found the appropriate forum. Like the man said in "Absence of Malice", "...everyone in the room's smart..."
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    Goal R.002 *Pulls hair out!*

    ModulusCT: Presumably your supervisor is not the designer. I have to wonder if the designer is more concerned about maintaining the .010 wall thickness. The point is that the designer must be included in the discussion. What's so important about that radius as opposed to the referenced .012...
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    Drawing Checking

    Thanks KENAT. Clearly I cruised up the wrong road; didn't mean to run over anyone's dogma with my karma. Probably too, should have mentioned that in my experience entitlement was the biggest sticking point when marking up certain originators' drawings. I think it may have had something to do...
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    Drawing Checking

    Actually, I came across this site as an aside to wondering, since I am retired, if drawing checkers were considered viable components these days,...and yes, I AM a "blast from the past". I dunno, my wine cellar is a bit dusty too. A five-year old thread vice a five-year old wine, you be the judge.
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    Drawing Checking

    thread765-185533 This is in response to the myriad comments on the art of drawing checking. As a DOD drawing checker for two decades I can validate that the support of management is paramount in a reasonably smooth process. Without it, you are "fair game" to anyone with an axe to grind...
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