Thread: First crash

crashes are a little different when its on your dime !!

To dave...

Whenever i make a mistake i learn from it...
But there are thousands of ways to make a mistake and crash a machine... Not just one...

So many mistakes , so little time ... hahaha

Can I come in your shop? Mr Slammy , my 3lb lump hammer wants an outing

...I haven't forgotten Boris. The difference is I was kidding with you......

Keep it up Solar, we'll start calling you the "crash test dummy".

Whenever i make a mistake i learn from it...
But there are thousands of ways to make a mistake and crash a machine... Not just one...

So many mistakes , so little time ... hahaha

...put the shovel down while you can still climb out......

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Oh man, can that get under your skin! Usually you know what you did wrong within 10 seconds after the crash. Never before, always after. I hate that.

forget 10. seconds.

as soon as you hear it you know what you did wrong. :mad: :mad: :mad:

then your kicking yourself the rest of the day.

but....

you have to jump back in the boat get to work

I've never had a "bad" crash myself, but have had several slightly chewed up soft jaws and boring bars, but a few weeks ago our shop gets a desperate plea from another shop to make some parts for them, seems the owner of the company crashed one of their two Haas lathes so bad it broke the turret casting away from the ways!!!! So to make matters worse the guy "fixes" the bad program and procedes to try to make the parts on the other Haas lathe they have and does the same thing!!!! Can you say OUCH

In 30 years I’ve had my share of crashes but can’t remember my first. 99.9% of them were operator error of course. This trade can make you feel and look like a complete fool sometimes. Most of our programs are one time only with no time for test runs. I can’t count high enough for the number of times I’ve buried the holder into a cavity block or vise jaws.

It’s always in the setup. Such as, forgetting to clamp something tight, changing cutters or parallels and forgetting to reset the height, setting up on the wrong corner or side, running the wrong program, wrong tool in the right pocket or right tool in the wrong pocket. Or a combination of the these. When you run 20 or more never tried programs a day, sh*t happens.

I once programmed a finish pass with a ¼ “ ball in tool 6 but there was a ½ “ ball in pocket 6 and didn’t notice, started it and went to lunch… sure made a mess of that cavity. Good thing is was just aluminum and easily replaced.