Oh what a night...

230grains

230grains

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I spent 5 hours getting a set up done today, could not run a decent part off this machine if my life depended on it. Horrific CLA, toolmarks on the face from a cut off I could not get rid of, going through four separate inserts, broke two mills touching them off trying to rush. Finally got the job going.. I'm distracted a bit, i'm setting up another machine. We're running ridiculously low tolerances, with a really tight surface finish tolerance for a ball pocket. I figure my mill is dull so I step it down.. Forgot a decimal.... CRASH. Brought the entire end mill into the stock including the holder. Ripped out the collet while bending the stock in the machine, the collet came down and smacked into the bottom turret knocking it all out of alignment. Well that's one job that's not getting finished tonight.. or this month. 1400 pieces, 9 minute cycle time.

I put that up for maintenance, move on to another machine that's actually functioning. I offset the finish bore +.0015 to leave room for deburring, I never reset the program, so it started in the wrong spot in the program... crashed the whole freakin' machine..... ugh.

I figure i'd take a break and step away to get my head back in the game, so I start deburring some parts. The parts are spinning and I go to stop them to knock out a burr in the ID, they split apart and take a chunk out of my finger tip.

The moral of this story? Today really sucked... Really really bad. You know what would have made my day? Coming home and seeing preview pictures for the new Busse folder.
 
I feel your pain.

I've been on the Chris Reeves site looking at folders.

:p

Mmmm he makes something like a small BA-III too!
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Man, been there.

I worked at a factory that made polycrystalline diamond drill bits.

I ran a cubic press that went up to 1.5 million pounds per square inch, and 2000 degrees.

When you make a mistake, boom, trips the earthquake sensor at the local colleges.

I had one particular mistake. started the press. Got up to a 1.5 million psi and Boom!

instantly shattered six tungsten carbide anvils and tungsten carbide back up anvils.

Spent three full 12 hours shifts up to my armpits in hydraulic oil and sweat. The next time we started the press, Boom again.

Ended up being a $250,000 or so mistake.

previous shift, the supervisor found out one of the tie bars was broken in half (think a several ton bolt 6 feet in length).

Turns out they forgot to tell the next shift it was broken.

Luckily it was not my mistake, but I had to spend 6 full 12 hour shifts fixing it.
 
Hate those kind of days Bro. A Busse folder could change a lot of lives. Jerry really needs to own his part in world peace.;):D
 
I've had days like that.

Recently.

Except mine were due to using really old equipment and our maintenance department ignoring my maintenance writeups. It didn't go over real well when I told them "I guess you'll fix it now, eh?"
 
joshuabl said:
How about some pics to go along with the story? Equipment rocks.
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Cpl Punishment said:
I've had days like that.

Recently.

Except mine were due to using really old equipment and our maintenance department ignoring my maintenance writeups. It didn't go over real well when I told them "I guess you'll fix it now, eh?"
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We have our share of equipment issues, but these machines usually run like a top. I've struggled on our older tsugami cnc lathes, but the newer stuff works great the majority of the time. I'd love to blame maintenance though lol.
 
Tough day fo sho!
Just one after another... Man, I think I would have thrown in the towel after the first one. :D

Here's to better days! :thumbup:

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I used to work at a shop running world war II Brown and Sharps programmed with ticker tape.
About once a week one would crash and dive into the table randomly.
I hated those machines!:thumbdn::foot:
 
Thankfully i'm too young to have had to deal with punched tape machines, I can imagine it would be more than frustrating. I get aggravated with old school fanuc, i'm a modern man.

Jerry, release a folder or I'll secretly get hired at busse and start running YOUR machines. MUAHAHAHAH.
 
230grains said:
I spent 5 hours getting a set up done today, could not run a decent part off this machine if my life depended on it. Horrific CLA, toolmarks on the face from a cut off I could not get rid of, going through four separate inserts, broke two mills touching them off trying to rush. Finally got the job going.. I'm distracted a bit, i'm setting up another machine. We're running ridiculously low tolerances, with a really tight surface finish tolerance for a ball pocket. I figure my mill is dull so I step it down.. Forgot a decimal.... CRASH. Brought the entire end mill into the stock including the holder. Ripped out the collet while bending the stock in the machine, the collet came down and smacked into the bottom turret knocking it all out of alignment. Well that's one job that's not getting finished tonight.. or this month. 1400 pieces, 9 minute cycle time.

I put that up for maintenance, move on to another machine that's actually functioning. I offset the finish bore +.0015 to leave room for deburring, I never reset the program, so it started in the wrong spot in the program... crashed the whole freakin' machine..... ugh.

I figure i'd take a break and step away to get my head back in the game, so I start deburring some parts. The parts are spinning and I go to stop them to knock out a burr in the ID, they split apart and take a chunk out of my finger tip.

The moral of this story? Today really sucked... Really really bad. You know what would have made my day? Coming home and seeing preview pictures for the new Busse folder.
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DID YOU TRY HITTING IT WITH A WRENCH???

shows you my technical ability lol :p

J hope your finger heals up quick my New England Brother!
 
dang man! next time you need to remember that before you put the thing with the thing on the thing, you should always use the thing to make sure the thing is where that other thing is supposed to be before you can start the thing! that should've been the first thing they taught you at the thing!

ah! move over and I'll show you how to do it! :eek:



don't feel bad... i'm having a really crappy week!
 
230grains said:
Thankfully i'm too young to have had to deal with punched tape machines, I can imagine it would be more than frustrating. I get aggravated with old school fanuc, i'm a modern man.

Jerry, release a folder or I'll secretly get hired at busse and start running YOUR machines. MUAHAHAHAH.
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I learned on Fanuc controls, and much prefer it to the more modern controls. It's all what you're used to.
 
rth548 said:
I learned on Fanuc controls, and much prefer it to the more modern controls. It's all what you're used to.
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I learned on fanuc controls too, but i've crashed a nak lathe more than any other machine. I prefer the Mazak’s mazatrol matrix control, and mazaks in general.

It all boils down to I was an idiot yesterday lol.
 
manix J said:
DID YOU TRY HITTING IT WITH A WRENCH???

shows you my technical ability lol :p

J hope your finger heals up quick my New England Brother!
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LOL, they frown on that. I probably did 5k worth of damage yesterday, but i've seen 80k done on a machine with 3 months of down time, so I don't feel so bad.
 
230grains said:
LOL, they frown on that. I probably did 5k worth of damage yesterday, but i've seen 80k done on a machine with 3 months of down time, so I don't feel so bad.
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The $250,000 mistake on the press I was running included the lost production, but at least it was not my mistake.

No one even got fired over it. Just the person who forgot to pass on the info got a write up.
 
Since you can't hit it with a wrench, sometimes just talking dirty to it makes you feel better!
 
Sorry about the bad day man.

just curious, What does your shop make? I know you work in the machine shop, but just wondering if you work on a specific product.
 
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