mjk
Titanium
- Joined
- Oct 20, 2005
- Location
- Wilmington DE USA
I've been working with a customer since June of last year on a project that involved a different engineer than usual and many unknowns and unusual requests.
Without getting into detailed specifics, the spec called for a "grip" surface to be applied to the face of a 2" diam disk.
The original spec was a knurl.
Knurling a face (consistently ) on a pc of S7 wasn't something I was able to do.
But I did come up with a pattern cut into the face with a dovetail cutter on the mill stepping a certain pitch, then rotating the piece 45 degrees and repeating.
When done I sent it to my customer.
This was last September and the pattern was approved
2 weeks ago the po arrived by email.
First call to the engineer and he says he isn't allowed on his site to retrieve the sample, he's working from home.
Fortunately he documented what he thought I did and added it to his notes.
I've always been fairly good about documenting how I did something when it took me a while to figure out, now it will be standard practice regardless of the situation.
Without getting into detailed specifics, the spec called for a "grip" surface to be applied to the face of a 2" diam disk.
The original spec was a knurl.
Knurling a face (consistently ) on a pc of S7 wasn't something I was able to do.
But I did come up with a pattern cut into the face with a dovetail cutter on the mill stepping a certain pitch, then rotating the piece 45 degrees and repeating.
When done I sent it to my customer.
This was last September and the pattern was approved
2 weeks ago the po arrived by email.
First call to the engineer and he says he isn't allowed on his site to retrieve the sample, he's working from home.
Fortunately he documented what he thought I did and added it to his notes.
I've always been fairly good about documenting how I did something when it took me a while to figure out, now it will be standard practice regardless of the situation.