OT/Your favorite Machine shop "Pearls of Wisdom"

[chris m]

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Just go ahead and do what you want, because it's easier to get forgiveness than it is to get permission in the first place.

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Ain't that the truth!

 

You can get a wrong part that looks good through QC quicker than a right part that looks bad

[GREG]

My Fathers saying

 

" 1/2 an inch is not a gap to a welder "

[md]

No ball's no blue chip's !

[JAMMAN]

I forgot this one;

"If you can't make all of them right, at least make them all the same"

[Tony]

Jack

I always bleep it myself...(I don't want to stereotype the BiZ too much)

That owners kid ended up as a Asst manager at B/King!!

[ERIC14779]

our forefathers thought nothing of working 16 hours a day.... we do not think much of it either !!!

[Scott Bond]

Emery was an early boss

of mine, on his office door

a sign said.

 

PUSH if that dosn't work

PULL if that dosn't work

Then were closed.

 

P.D.G.

Pirate

Detective

Guy

 

[ 07-11-2002, 10:56 AM: Message edited by: Scott Bond ]

[Saultspics]

Don't FORCE IT get a BIGGER hammer!

 

Did you see what that machine did!

LOL!

[Tony]

"The Dead do come back to life,

Just watch the time clock at quitting time"

[Guest CNC Apps Guy 1]

I feel the need to share something that last night's night shift did.

 

The DAY setup guy had the parts running fine. The tool was leaving a small burr where the end of the length of cut was, but he just used a dynabrade and everything was fine. (Keep in mind this was the last tool of this type in the shop - none are due to arrive until next week). Day told the night shift guy to run it as is. DON'T change the tool. Well, let me tell you what he did, he changed the tool, wrong corner radius $2500 in scrap(the whole freakin job)!!!! What a dumb@$$. The program's tool comment specifies a .125 radius, the PRINT (of all things) specifies a .125 radius, AND the setup sheet specifies a .125 corner radius in no less than 2 places! WHAT A FRIGGIN IDIOT!!!!!!!!!!. I know nobody is perfect, I'm not asking for perfection. I'm just asking for somebody to give a $#!+ !!!! and read a friggin print!!!! This guys does stuff like that all the time. I never let him run my stuff when I have anything to say about it, he won't leave $#!+ alone. "NOPE, I gotta edit the program, I don't care if it ran fine during the day, I need to change the program.".

 

Thanks for letting me vent. The whole point to this was one of our Forum Friends said

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I made production. It's all scrap, but I made production.

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I wanted to echo his sentiment

 

OUT!

[chris m]

Hey James; you're not alone!

 

I'm sure most of us have a day shift/night shift story or too to tell:

 

A couple of years ago we had a job that was really hot (which one isn't) that the night shift set up and the guy edited the program to slow down one tool because he "thought the RPM was too high" and he didn't like it. As a result the night shift ran about 6 parts all night. When the day shift came in, we changed the job back to what it should've been and ran about 30 parts; problem solved, right?

 

NO!

 

The night shift guy CHANGED IT BACK and ran another 6 or 8 parts!!!

 

We almost had a fistfight between the night and day CNC milling foremen the next day.

 

Every shop has (at least) one guy who always knows better

[Scott Bond]

Hi all

James; Chris,

I like the changing of this silly thread to this group therapy venting thing.And usually we take a useful professional thread and make it a silly thread, that is called “HighJacked”.. This is a silly thread turning into something Useful.

What should we call that?

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Every shop has (at least) one

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I have received this comment yelled out on the shop floor.

"This program is no good !!"

Bacause the spot drill of a huge program was to deep.It was because I program to the sharp point, not being able to program to what ever dull broken flated piece of junk the set up man might feel like throwing in there that day.

 

And they always speel my name wrong on my parts!!

it is --SCott--

not ----SCrap--

 

[ 07-12-2002, 10:55 AM: Message edited by: Scott Bond ]

[chris m]

I always program my spots .010-.020 shallow for that very reason!

 

I love when one of the guys comes in saying "I don't know what you're doing but the program is doing something crazy" and I walk out to the machine and say "It might help if you touched the tool off..."

 

In fairness, my butt has been saved more than once by a guy who looked closely before pushing the button

 

TGIF

[Camdude®]

life is what happens to you while you are busy planning something else

[n_tydingco]

quote:

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Every shop has (at least) one guy who always knows better

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...AMEN

 

It's the one-up-manship that's prevalent in all professions and trades.

[Jim Whipple]

Another of my favs is Mill TFD 41 will apply in this situation

Make it like the friggin drawing for once!

Jim

[jeff]

How about when you asked someone "who did this?"

The only reply seems to be "I dunno".

If i ever find out who "i dunno" is he's fired!!!

[chris m]

That has to be the funniest post I've read EVER

 

I think I Dunno hangs out with "somebody" as in "somebody dropped this..." or "somebody didn't put that tool where it belongs..." or my favorite "somebody must've bumped the turret..."

 

"Bumped," of course, can be used any time that the turret is not literally knocked out of the machine. That, I think, is "thumped."

[Guy Arseneault]

One of the guys in the shop will always say " Little less talk, little more work " and he's one of the big mouths.

Guy

[Leocam]

"WE DO IT NICE, CAUSE WE DO IT TWICE"

 

"WE MUST TO MOVE THE PARTS" (in owners accent)

 

[ 07-12-2002, 08:37 PM: Message edited by: Leocam ]

[Leocam]

GREAT POST SCOOTIE!

[Tony]

Ahhh "I had a false cut"

[Karl Oram]

Here an excellent one for your quoting system works very well or a least will get a smile:

 

"My prices are the same for everyone $10,000 divided by the look on their face"

[chris m]

Not from a machine shop, but good nonetheless:

 

My buddy, a mechanic, has this in his shop:

 

Repairs $50/hour

$60/hour if you bring the parts

$100/hour if you worked on it first

 

and...

 

Flats fixed: $

If you watch: $$

If you help: $$$

[Philcott]

Sign in local pizza shop.

 

"Our new credit manager is Helen Waite. If you want credit go to Helen Waite."