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Of course I don't insist on holding tight tolerances if it takes extra effort when it's not needed. I was hoping some common sense would be applied to that, but it's the one thing people are concentrating on. Of course we don't use reamers or boring heads on a drilled hole, that's stupid. But we DO use carbide drills that hold impressively tight location and size tolerances as long as we already had that size on hand. No the print didn't call for that, but we already had it and it actually saved time! But you know about that stuff already... You also know how easy it is to see that a part is .003" long, go in to offsets and type -.003" and hit enter.
We could cancel the machine order and loan. What I can't cancel is the building. It's far too late for that, and it's an SBA loan that requires 60% occupancy from me, which means we have to occupy that percentage of the building or I default on the loan (which is unfortunate, I could rent the entire place out and make a $300 monthly profit). That being the case, there's no point in moving to a larger space without also increasing capacity. So the machine stands. All or nothing.
Just one, but yes the Brother and vises, tool holders, etc.
Government and weather.
Yes, the entire engineering department defaults to getting us to make their parts because it means they won't have to get involved when parts don't fit, or so I'm told. However I get the feeling that it's not important enough for any of them to stick their neck out. It seems like things are changing globally there and nobody knows where they stand exactly, to include 20 year employees.
Thank you very much Mike. Likewise.
Unless you have probing like we do.
To everyone else, thanks a lot for the feedback, nice or not. I think the website is a lot cleaner now, and a lot less grumpy. I liked the grumpy version, but the main thing I took away from this shit show was that it doesn't matter what I like, it matters what potential customers like. I appreciate that lesson, so thank you.
And just to close out the topic, we went from having almost zero work to having over a 2 month back log. I also learned a couple things and am making more per hour on several decent quantity parts than we ever have. Not too shabby for a dickhead that doesn't like his customers, ehh?
You don't want to hear it, but that's never stopped me before.
I just want to be clear that our setup times might be timed differently than others. Remember I said "part to part"... here's how we time them:Some of it came from a couple of our competitors failing as a business, or simply customers getting tired of shitty or late parts. No RFQ's at all came from this thread. I didn't expect any, really, but I couldn't be looking at going out of business without trying everything I could think of.
