My apologies for the exaggeration
Derrr uhhm 10,000 combinations.
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Quite a few moons ago, I got my new bank card from my new bank with my NEW pin number..
I happened to be at the shop when I opened the envelope.. And HOLY CRAP.. SAME pin
# I had been assigned from my other bank.. SCORE, I don't have to remember anything new.
So I made the offhand remark (being excited and all that I didn't have to call and change the #).
"What are the odds"? And a guy I worked with who was and probably still is really smart.. Said
"Man, that has to be one in a million".. And then I thought for a second and realized that its only
4 digits, its 1:10,000. And I told him, and he smacked himself in the forehead...
Thought I will throw you a strange one.. 75% of all debit card or credit card #'s I've ever had since
I was in high school have all ended in 7037 or 7137.. Even my new electric company account number ends
in 7137. Half dozen plus banks and a dozen or more credit cards... And then the electric bill account #.
Just weird.
On programs... O1000 for everything. O1001, 2, 3 etc.. for subs or other things..
You can name them anything you want on your computer... Why clog up the memory in the machine???
When I post I save under a file name I started using a decade ago. 'Delete Me'. There
is also Delete Me1, Delete Me2, Delete Me3 and 4. I only save under a specific part #
when it is something tricky where I have to do some hand coding.
99% of the time, I go to the cam, and repost.. New tools, new techniques... etc... I also
want to review WTF I was doing the last time I ran this part.. Feeds, speeds obviously, but
I'm not overly consistent on where I run my Zzero depending on what is going on. sometimes its
on top, sometimes its on the bottom.
So lets ask a question. What do you do when you don't have a part#, an assembly# or even a print??
How do you organize THAT? How do you organize THAT when it changes..
This morning I was making a delivery (the first of 3 today to the same customer) and I was commenting that it seems
there have been a lot of design changes this year.. And he says "that design sucked,
has to be made better".. And then as he's sliding some 2x6 tubing onto my truck, he says
"I've made a ton of these machines over the past 35 years, and they work great and everybody
loves them, so I'm going to change the design"..
How do you document that? Not one single part # or blueprint on ANY of it.. Sometimes I spend
more time looking for the Cad file than I do setting up and making the part..