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  1. CristianF

    Standard tolerancing on stainless keys and keyways

    Hello all, Thank you for all your input! I will try to answer some of the questions. Is not the customer who is pushing the change. The manufacturer is concerned that a drawing where a key was 0.250 +0.000/-0.004 with a keyway of 0.250 +0.004/-0.000 so it’s possible that *both* could be 0.250...
  2. CristianF

    Standard tolerancing on stainless keys and keyways

    Hello all! RobinHandy and boo1 From what I was told, the supplier claims that our tolerance are based on carbon steel keys and not on stainless steel keys. So far, this is the only vendor asking for this change, but as you mentioned, there is a standard for keys and keyways and what he's asking...
  3. CristianF

    Standard tolerancing on stainless keys and keyways

    Hi Cockroach and thank you for quick response. Just to understand this better, do you dimension the key as 0.250 +0.000/-0.002 and keyway 0.251 +0.002/-0.000 ? Regards, C
  4. CristianF

    Standard tolerancing on stainless keys and keyways

    Hello all, I am looking for some feedback regarding a request from a supplier. One from our supplier is requesting that shaft keys and keyways be toleranced on our prints in such a way that the keyways would *always* be bigger than the keys. For instance, if standard tolerancing on stainless...
  5. CristianF

    If part changes rev is the assemblies change rev as well???

    Thanks’ for your input. But if you have PDME managing the files and you open the assembly with the latest revision to all the parts, then even if you don’t change the assembly, wouldn’t PDM see that assembly as modified?
  6. CristianF

    If part changes rev is the assemblies change rev as well???

    Hello all, I’ve been looking all over the forum regarding this question and probably I wasn’t looking hard enough, because I couldn’t find a satisfactory answer. To give you some background… There is no MRP or PDM system in place. The files are saved with a different revision at the end (123R1...

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