PICKING IT UP

[NEWBEE]

i have already check for zoning it's ok, i am have 220 put in my garge saturday and already have a 66 gallons air compressor from when i was a tech. i will never stop asking question, and maybe some day i will be able to give back what i have learned and pass it down to my kids, or my grand kids. this is going to be a hobby for now but who knows maybe it might turn into something i can only dreams of my of business and quit makeing someone elses pocket fat.

[chris m]

220 is single phase; the machine's probably 208V 3 phase; are you using a phase converter?

[NEWBEE]

i wil find out

[NEWBEE]

hey robk thanks for the info, hopefully i will understand what you sent me.

[Jeff the haas_guy]

NEWBEE

 

See what you started?

 

It will never end now.

 

 

The saga continues..........

[NEWBEE]

yea i know i have started something and i need to finish it. i have a long road ahead of me and hopefully i will get there some day, but for now im still a newbee

[priden]

Hey c-hook, I hear ya on goobers overtightening things. We have a wrench on our lathe to tighten and loosen the quick change tool post, and we have cut the wrench down til it's just 6 inches long and some bonehead still tightens the dang thing til you have to put a cheater on a full size wrench to loosen it. I can't understand how so many people in the trade with "machining experience" have a lack of pratical application of mechanical advantage. The other day I caught an operator tightening the 3R pallet down with both hands on the T-handle allen wrench. If it wasn't against the law, he'd still have a hand print on the back of his head.

[cadcam]

Newbee so you know you and James M from this board are neighbors also I am not to far eather.

So we will be looking for you in the future.

[c-hook]

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Hey c-hook, I hear ya on goobers overtightening things. We have a wrench on our lathe to tighten and loosen the quick change tool post, and we have cut the wrench down til it's just 6 inches long and some bonehead still tightens the dang thing til you have to put a cheater on a full size wrench to loosen it. I can't understand how so many people in the trade with "machining experience" have a lack of pratical application of mechanical advantage. The other day I caught an operator tightening the 3R pallet down with both hands on the T-handle allen wrench. If it wasn't against the law, he'd still have a hand print on the back of his head.

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It seems that understanding and learning how to machine on a cnc is a MUCH easier concept to learn for some people than understanding how little it takes to hold a tool in a holder. What can you do....Just don't lend em' your tools! I lent my edge finder to a "rookie" one time and when I got it back, the shank was elliptical instead of cylindrical. With a nice big set screw mark right on the side of it.

[Jeff the haas_guy]

c-hook

 

Dont tell me you never crashed an edge finder.

 

The MOST expendable tool I have in my box.I buy them 2 at a time.

 

BTW

 

What do you think of the electronic edge finders?

[c-hook]

Crashing an edge finder is one thing, but smashing it with a set screw.....that doesn't even give you a chance to crash it cuz it's already toast. I have never tried using the electronic style edge finders, I guess I am just old school or something Same with my measuring tools, I don't feel comfortable with digitals or electronics, just dials or verniers.

[Jeff the haas_guy]

I just wondered your opinion. I dont like the electronic edge finder either. As far as smashing the edge finder, I though the newbie might have crashed it. I have broken several myself.

[NEWBEE]

where are you both from

[Jeff the haas_guy]

newbee

 

who are you asking?

[c-hook]

Don't get the wrong impression, I don't have anything agianst the novice, I was just going off topic (I guess) about things I have noticed over the years.......By the way NEWBEE, I am from Albuquerque, New Mexico.

[priden]

Hey c-hook, I have a brother in Rio Rancho. Small world, huh.

Have you ever seen a novice put his indicol on the spindle and instead of typing in X0 or Y0, they hit spindle start. Talk about centrifugal force. Also the instantaneous stop against the inner wall of the vhc didn't help it none either. The same guy tried to hold down a considerable size chunk of H-13 against an angle plate with a pair of 6" Kant-twist clamps and then plunged a 4" face mill down into the top with the hand wheel instead of across the the top of the block. He twisted both clamps and threw the block through the removable front loading guard. I still laugh when I walk by our mori-seki. We have the clamps hanging there with a sign saying "Kant-twist..... Wanna bet"

[c-hook]

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Have you ever seen a novice put his indicol on the spindle and instead of typing in X0 or Y0, they hit spindle start. Talk about centrifugal force. Also the instantaneous stop against the inner wall of the vhc didn't help it none either.

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I don't know how many times I have seen that happen, ahem.....my self included . I saw a guy fling his brand new mituitoyo test indicator about 50 ft across the shop, he only had it 5 minutes. I don't think it was shock resistant.

[Guest CNC Apps Guy 1]

My "From:" Tells where I'm from. I'm not hiding from anything or anyone.

[Jeff the haas_guy]

priden

 

I had a .0005 interapid for 20 years. One day I put it in the spindle to pick up the part and because it was Monday, or my period, or who knows what, I hit spindle start....I've never seen an indicator leave the earth so fast.

 

You know the rest...

 

I tried to get the shop to buy me a new one, and I think you know how that turned out.

[c-hook]

Ooohhh yeah....the joys of sheeenin'

[Jeff the haas_guy]

sheeenin'?

[Guest]

Ma----"chining"

[Jeff the haas_guy]

Got it.

 

John:

 

Whats with the pink panther picture?

[Guest]

Simply,

 

I like the The Pink Panther, and Tony from Microplastics animated it for me

[Jeff the haas_guy]

Have you seen the Steve Martin movie?