shaneboyd
Plastic
- Joined
- Feb 21, 2008
- Location
- medford oregon
hello all. I had to share with you the customer I met this week.
A gentleman in his fifties came into the shop the other day. he was kind of run down but clean. he struck me as somewhat eccentric and excited at the same time. he had a steel disk, about 18" in diameter and 3/4" thick with a keyed coupler in the center that will take a 2.5" shaft with standard key. he brought with him four drawings and a good story. around the edge of this disk were three equal distance saw marks and some tapped holes on the rim. he wanted us to tap holes and cut slots that he had taken some pains to draft for us in his design. he also wanted 30 degree dovetail slots cut into the plate at the saw marks and wanted us to make three dovetail blocks that would fit them configured somewhat like a three jaw chuck would look. His last request was that we fabricate three odd looking brackets with tapped holes, through holes, and slots to his specifications. he had left out a few dimensions so I had to call him for additional details before we could program the mill to cut out his bracket plates. I did not take the job, so this was my first contact with him face to face as it were. he had trouble with the dimensions I needed but we muddled through and I got the impression that he did not understand the manufacturing process to well. We got the programming done and ran off the first plate for him. my foreman called me to the office and asked me to call the customer and let him know the estimated cost to build his pieces. it seems that this customer is building a perpetual motion machine and has been farming the various parts out to all the local machine shops so that no single machine shop has all the details of his creation. I called him up to follow through and make sure that he could afford all the work we were doing for him. and to make sure that he was happy with the parts. he was shocked that the total job may cost 2000.00 and has elected to pay for our day's labor and go elsewhere. I will be watching the local news with interest to see when this new, revolutionary technology hits the market. besides, with that big job gone I will have more time to work on my time machine.
A gentleman in his fifties came into the shop the other day. he was kind of run down but clean. he struck me as somewhat eccentric and excited at the same time. he had a steel disk, about 18" in diameter and 3/4" thick with a keyed coupler in the center that will take a 2.5" shaft with standard key. he brought with him four drawings and a good story. around the edge of this disk were three equal distance saw marks and some tapped holes on the rim. he wanted us to tap holes and cut slots that he had taken some pains to draft for us in his design. he also wanted 30 degree dovetail slots cut into the plate at the saw marks and wanted us to make three dovetail blocks that would fit them configured somewhat like a three jaw chuck would look. His last request was that we fabricate three odd looking brackets with tapped holes, through holes, and slots to his specifications. he had left out a few dimensions so I had to call him for additional details before we could program the mill to cut out his bracket plates. I did not take the job, so this was my first contact with him face to face as it were. he had trouble with the dimensions I needed but we muddled through and I got the impression that he did not understand the manufacturing process to well. We got the programming done and ran off the first plate for him. my foreman called me to the office and asked me to call the customer and let him know the estimated cost to build his pieces. it seems that this customer is building a perpetual motion machine and has been farming the various parts out to all the local machine shops so that no single machine shop has all the details of his creation. I called him up to follow through and make sure that he could afford all the work we were doing for him. and to make sure that he was happy with the parts. he was shocked that the total job may cost 2000.00 and has elected to pay for our day's labor and go elsewhere. I will be watching the local news with interest to see when this new, revolutionary technology hits the market. besides, with that big job gone I will have more time to work on my time machine.