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Where to sell leftover Nylatron 66 SA FST sheets?
In 2019 our shop purchased a mill batch of Nylatron 66 SA FST sheets through Mitsubishi (.75" x 24 x 120) for some aerospace work that dried up due to covid. We have 16 full sheets that cost us $2,383/ea. I'm looking for somewhere to sell it if anyone has a recommendation. -
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Doosan DNM 200/5AX Mastercam Post
We just got a new Doosan DNM 200/5AX machine and having a heck of a time finding a mastercam post for it. Anyone happen to have one they'd be willing to share? :D We use Mastercam 2020 but I don't know that the version matters. -
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Bad luck hiring experienced employees
This is certainly a tricky one. We're in Idaho which has been booming like crazy.. COL has been going up and up but wages haven't caught up yet. All the posts on indeed in my area are offering $17 - $25/hr with min 5 years experience. We've bumped our guys up to the higher end of that to try...- g0Jack
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Bad luck hiring experienced employees
I manage a small job shop with 12 employees, most of which have been trained on-site and didn't know a thing about machining until they started here. We're slowly growing and needing to hire more people, but we're having a lot of issues when it comes to hiring experienced machinists. The last...- g0Jack
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Tooling/Workholding/Programming that has increased productivity the most for you
You're definitely right about that. Finding people that want to work swing/night shift has proven to be quite hard though. Appreciate the advice. -
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Tooling/Workholding/Programming that has increased productivity the most for you
Thanks for the kind response. We've been so focused on speeding up setup times this year that it kind of feels like we're grasping at straws at this point. After-all, there's only so much you can speed up a setup and you can only make someone work so fast. Demanding that people work faster and... -
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Tooling/Workholding/Programming that has increased productivity the most for you
Hmm, I'd consider an hour for 1 part to be pretty lengthy. Usually for the parts I linked the picture of, we see orders for 150 at a time which takes almost 4 full weeks of machine time (40 hour week), not to mention the 10~ business days it takes to have them bead blasted/anodized/laser... -
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Tooling/Workholding/Programming that has increased productivity the most for you
I should probably add that we've had the last 2 years to really dial in these parts, so this is probably a bad example of setup/cycle time taking too long. But generally those are the types of parts we work with. -
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Tooling/Workholding/Programming that has increased productivity the most for you
Might be a pretty common part in the gun world, but I'm no expert. We only have 2 pallets on this machine, and generally we have 3-4 fixture plates for different parts that we swap in/out as needed. -
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Tooling/Workholding/Programming that has increased productivity the most for you
2 ops on horizontal running simultaneously, 1 hour a piece complete. -
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Tooling/Workholding/Programming that has increased productivity the most for you
Doosan HP 4000 II Horizontals, Haas VF2SS, Haas VF4SS, Haas DM 1 with 4th axis rotary table. Here's a picture of a part we run pretty frequently on our Doosan.. Always seems to take up too much time. Screenshot - ba24031423b885213fd4875eb63f8fa2 - Gyazo -
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Tooling/Workholding/Programming that has increased productivity the most for you
Here's a part that we run on our Doosan HP 4000 II horizontal mill pretty frequently. Screenshot - ba24031423b885213fd4875eb63f8fa2 - Gyazo -
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Tooling/Workholding/Programming that has increased productivity the most for you
This is a pretty generic question, but I'm basically looking for examples of tooling/workholding/programming techniques that have sped up cycle times the most for you when vertical/horizontal milling (aluminum and 300 series stainless primarily). My boss swears up and down that the reason we...