I feel like I need to establish some things first. This is a continuation of the thread started by my Partner in this project seen here:
http://www.aawforum.org/vbforum/showthread.php?11288-High-School-Engineering-group-needs-your-help
A few other things, I asked my partner to post on forums asking him to conduct some market research about our problem and how often it is encountered, the problem being the turning of irregularly shaped pieces (basically anything apart from the typical square or cylindrical pieces). I told him early on in the project about an already existing solution (the two jaw chuck) that I'd seen pipe makers use before for more bi symmetrical pieces, and how improving on it and making it more affordable (as many are custom made and very expensive) could be a possible solution. Unfortunately, this seemed to influence his market research, we really meant to focus on the problem itself and not the already existing solutions for it. Although you guys did provide A LOT of new information I didn't know of, so thank you for that. The market research we conducted off the internet looked like this (The second pic is the first page):
http://imgur.com/a/OIkPW
Another thing I need to say is that I am Andrew Creemer. The original thread was not posted by me, my partner used my name for some reason. Lastly, I'd like to apologize for any confusion that we were looking for a problem to fit the two jaw chuck concept, I've only been woodturning for under a year now, and happened to run into this problem. When this project came up I suggested it as I thought we could come up with a decent solution of our own or improve upon an already existing solution, where the two jaw chuck problem arose.
Now that that's all out of the way, I'd really like it if you can help us further by providing feedback on a few designs that we've narrowed down from our basic sketches. Bear in mind these are rudimentary annotated sketches, not meant to do anything besides convey a concept and a rough size approximation. Basically, apologies in advance for the poor drawing skills, we'll be correcting them later.
A brief survey along with the sketches is attached in a word document (I hope). EDIT: The survey would not fit with the sketches in it, I have removed them and posted them on a separate website ( http://imgur.com/a/kfgrF )
It would benefit us greatly if you could fill it out. If not, Thank you anyways for any information you gave us last time and for taking the time to read this.
ALSO, in order to make it possible for us to be able to create a working prototype, as well as to hopefully cut costs for the customer (hypothetically) we have designed these concepts as separate jaws that would fit onto a NOVA G3/G2 chuck.
http://www.aawforum.org/vbforum/showthread.php?11288-High-School-Engineering-group-needs-your-help
A few other things, I asked my partner to post on forums asking him to conduct some market research about our problem and how often it is encountered, the problem being the turning of irregularly shaped pieces (basically anything apart from the typical square or cylindrical pieces). I told him early on in the project about an already existing solution (the two jaw chuck) that I'd seen pipe makers use before for more bi symmetrical pieces, and how improving on it and making it more affordable (as many are custom made and very expensive) could be a possible solution. Unfortunately, this seemed to influence his market research, we really meant to focus on the problem itself and not the already existing solutions for it. Although you guys did provide A LOT of new information I didn't know of, so thank you for that. The market research we conducted off the internet looked like this (The second pic is the first page):
http://imgur.com/a/OIkPW
Another thing I need to say is that I am Andrew Creemer. The original thread was not posted by me, my partner used my name for some reason. Lastly, I'd like to apologize for any confusion that we were looking for a problem to fit the two jaw chuck concept, I've only been woodturning for under a year now, and happened to run into this problem. When this project came up I suggested it as I thought we could come up with a decent solution of our own or improve upon an already existing solution, where the two jaw chuck problem arose.
Now that that's all out of the way, I'd really like it if you can help us further by providing feedback on a few designs that we've narrowed down from our basic sketches. Bear in mind these are rudimentary annotated sketches, not meant to do anything besides convey a concept and a rough size approximation. Basically, apologies in advance for the poor drawing skills, we'll be correcting them later.
A brief survey along with the sketches is attached in a word document (I hope). EDIT: The survey would not fit with the sketches in it, I have removed them and posted them on a separate website ( http://imgur.com/a/kfgrF )
It would benefit us greatly if you could fill it out. If not, Thank you anyways for any information you gave us last time and for taking the time to read this.
ALSO, in order to make it possible for us to be able to create a working prototype, as well as to hopefully cut costs for the customer (hypothetically) we have designed these concepts as separate jaws that would fit onto a NOVA G3/G2 chuck.
