1) The probability of a machine breakdown increases exponentially with the size of the job you are running and how far behind you are.

2) Machines are more likely to break down on Friday night before a weekend run than any other day of the week.

Do not pat the material salesman on the back (and kiss his ass profusely) for going the extra mile to get your rush order expedited and on the truck for delivery on Friday until:

A) all of the material you expedited gets to your shop.

B) the material you do recieve is cut to the size you told him.

I don't git it?





Now that is good!





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***1985***
Ox

In other words, Ox, when it doesn't matter, that is when the lathe will turn almost perfect cylinders

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Ox

You only overwrite programs you'll end up needing later.

Ummm, dat's only cause you own the cheap stuff

hehehe
Dave

Any fastener dropped in the chip conveyor will become invisible and non-magnetic.

Any fastener or tool dropped during repair or maintenance will lodge in the most physically inaccessible spot in the machine. If it goes under the machine, it will roll to the perfect geographical center of the machine.

If you are running out of work throw away some tooling. Then that job will repeat.

Regards,

Stan-

Corollary; Your tool Carousel/Turret never has enough pockets.

1. The last torx insert screw you have that fits that particular holder will always break the second you attempt to use it - and it always happens on Friday at 5 PM with a hot job on the machine.

2. The ball of your ball end hex T-handle will always break off in a SHCS that is so deep in the machine you can't even see it.

3. You will always drop the last insert you have when changing it, chipping the cutting edge on the conveyor.

After hours of silence, programming intricate parts makes the phone ring at least 4 times.

Your cell phone will ring when you're in the middle of setting tool offsets.

When ordering inserts thou shalt check your supply of Torx screws,seats, and clamps.

During a machine set up, when the tool and toolpath you're proving out requires an extra amount of pucker factor and you have your head deep in the part process..... That's when someone drops a large piece of material on the floor or uses the "solids bin" as a basketball hoop... ...

#Tap- Thou can buy every tap size, for every standard thread, in every configuration.
And this will cause a new standard to be declared, and used on your part, so that you do not have the right kind of tap.

#Tap2 - If you have 4 taps, none of them will break. If you have 2 taps one will break, but be easily removed. If you have only 1 tap it will break off in the hole and require an AntiCarbideDeathRay to remove.

#PullStud1 - In order to prevent any sort of inventory reduction or other obvious efficiency, a wide variety of machines using the exact same holders (e.g. CAT 40) will all have different pull studs.

#PullStud2 - Pull stud installation requires the use of a bizarre socket used nowhere else in the universe. This socket is shy and likes to hide various places in the shop.

#ToolDrop - if a machine drops a toolholder (due to incorrect loading, say) it will always fall into one of two areas. Either directly onto some just finished surface of the part. OR Into some crevass in the deep reaches of the machine from which it is very difficult to retrieve. OR both.

The main property of coolant is that it keeps the machining process invisible.

Regardless of what any test says, the concrete floor is much harder than any tool.

Even if you make Tool Holders as your primary business, you don't have the one you need... ever...

the $1000 super tool will always fail right after you walk away from a long run( after 45 minutes or so) thinking its ok....

no matter how many coolant nozzles you have.... there is a spot on the part ya just can't get coolant to as you'd like to.

The cost of a new tool is proportional to the height from which you will drop it onto concrete. You will never drop the old insert that you are replacing, only the new one. All of your special short clamp studs for your vises will eventually end up in the coolant tank at the same time. You never tighten the vise down all the way on the last part of a run and it scraps. The crunching noise that happens when you put down the 80 pound vise that you just lifted out of your vmc are the Mitutoyo calipers that are under the harmless looking shop rag on your bench. Coolant only stains clothes that are new and nice looking.