Gauge Board Two — Ring & Clip, Fall River

Tuesday · 10:40 a.m. · eleven o'clock lot pending · wire running

Marisol Quaintance, board two

Right — you're here, good, stand there and don't lean on the rail, it's got oil on it. Number four press has been running a gap it wasn't set for since first shift and I've got to call the right clip off this board before the eleven o'clock lot goes on the belt, so you can help or you can watch, I don't care which.

Order card's up top. Eight clips on the hooks. Five plugs on the rail. Plug three first. Always plug three first — if it walks through you've saved yourself the caliper entirely.

Closure Order — Wrapping Dept.LOT 11:00

Run—

Must grip—

Must clear—

Code—

One clip on the board answers all three. Drop it in ACCEPT.

Hooks 1–8 — tap a clip to bring it to the bench

On the bench

Nothing on the bench. Tap a clip off a hook.

Acceptcall it for the eleven o'clock

Back on the hook

Go / no-go plugs — maple, turned on the lathe upstairs. Drag one onto the clip on the bench.

Dial caliper — drag the thumbwheelfree air

Inches 0.000

          Reads a thousandth. Clip's punched to a hundredth. Third place is the caliper being nice to you.
        

How a code reads

          437

          first digit — lip style

          middle digit — jaw gap in eighths

          last digit — stock run

          3 eighths = .375 nominal. Punched clips wander a few thousandths either side and nobody minds.

Gauge board note

A clip is two numbers, not one. The gap has to be narrower than the gathered neck it grips, or it slips at the wrapper. And wider than the twist of film it slides onto, or it cracks at the shoulder and goes right through the loaf. Poly at four gauge gathers fatter than waxed paper — same loaf, wider gap.