CyborgMetrology
Plastic
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- Aug 10, 2021
My birthday is coming up, and I want to ask the boss to buy me some books for the office. We definitely need a new-er copy of the Aluminum Extrusion Manual from AEC for any disputes with suppliers, our present copy is 1999. (250$) I'm looking for a GD&T Rosetta Stone for disputes with engineering...
On Friday, when nobody from engineering is in the facility, my coworker had to check a part that had six holes with countersink on the near side and four holes with countersink on the far side. The near side holes were drawn concentric circles to indicate countersink, the far side holes were drawn single-circle with the 4x (hole diameter)(countersink). The machinist came in spitting nails on Monday morning because his parts got red-tagged. Well, yeah, after you point at it and yell, it makes sense now, but NS does not mean near-side in GD&T and FS does not mean far-side... that's some homebrew horseshit right there. We don't have a book to point at when we're shouting at engineering...
I know engineers are supposed to be bad at English talky-talky, keep the customers away from them, but wtf?!? I worked a previous job where our best machinists were Serbians working 3months in America and trading-off with family back home every so often, but the engineers at that shop always made sure to translate through the owner and then check the translation through the old lady in the gage room... we've got no translators here because we're all talking English like it's the same language.
Help... book recommendation.
On Friday, when nobody from engineering is in the facility, my coworker had to check a part that had six holes with countersink on the near side and four holes with countersink on the far side. The near side holes were drawn concentric circles to indicate countersink, the far side holes were drawn single-circle with the 4x (hole diameter)(countersink). The machinist came in spitting nails on Monday morning because his parts got red-tagged. Well, yeah, after you point at it and yell, it makes sense now, but NS does not mean near-side in GD&T and FS does not mean far-side... that's some homebrew horseshit right there. We don't have a book to point at when we're shouting at engineering...
I know engineers are supposed to be bad at English talky-talky, keep the customers away from them, but wtf?!? I worked a previous job where our best machinists were Serbians working 3months in America and trading-off with family back home every so often, but the engineers at that shop always made sure to translate through the owner and then check the translation through the old lady in the gage room... we've got no translators here because we're all talking English like it's the same language.
Help... book recommendation.