"Our Drake hit the floor at six on a Tuesday night. By Thursday morning it was at full production."

Keith J. McPherson, President

Quality Chaser manufactures thread chasers for all types of die heads and collapsible taps, and various threading tools, working in high-speed steels. Quality has been in this precision specialty since 1944. So when a Drake CNC Thread Grinder was suggested for them, some veteran craftsmen had to be convinced first. And since they were in the chaser business, they knew their way around threads quite well.

Where the P.O. would be going
The first thing Quality did was to visit the Drake facility, to get a sense of Drake's expertise and commitment to quality. In fact, Keith McPherson brought along machinists who had operated the original manual thread grinders. These craftsmen soon agreed that Drake's CNC menu was the "user-friendliest" of any they had seen.

"Runs two-tenths, all day long"
That's how Quality describes the typical tolerances they hold on their Drake. The fact is, Drake can engineer as much precision as your work calls for; often building machines to tighter specs than a new one costing tens of thousands more.

A very pleasant, profitable surprise
When they ordered their CNC Drake, Quality Chaser intended it to replace an older machine. When they started it up, it soon replaced two machines. They found the one Drake doing the volume of two ordinary grinders, and in less time. Keith McPherson attributes a lot of that productivity gain to the way the Drake people worked closely with them to customize the software specifically to the work that needed doing.