Ok now that you guys have settled that, lets get back to the nudie picture subject.

I don't know about a rifle but I have been out bird hunting and I have had shotgun pellets rain back down on me, just felt like a hard rain it didn't hurt. I was watching that show Mythbusters on the Discovery channel last night and they were doing something about rain and they said rain drobs reach there maximum speed in just 60 feet, now I don't now anything about physics but if rain has a maximun speed it could fall wouldn't a bullet have one to? Maybe someone needs to try to get these guys on the Discovery channel to test this myth.

I was having the same problem plus a few others with sp2-a few weeks ago my computer guy was rebuilding my computer-we just reloaded sp1-problem solved.

Well, I have a bad one to tell on myself. I was working on settting up a new job at the place I used to work, I had been working on the same job for a couple of days, it was a Sunday evening after being in all weekend and my boss was standing right behind me nagging in my ear the hole time about how I couldn't figure it out, not really a bad guy just giving me a hard time. It was a Matsura Twin Spindle Vertical Mill, he says look at that the coolant isn't even hitting the cutter right so I turned around and withouth looking just reached up to adjust the coolant line when WHAMM the tool change arm came around and tried to change my pointer finger out with a boring bar. And then on the way to the hospital he starts asking me what the hell did you do that for? What else could I say but I wasn't thinking and he wouldn't shut up.

The cost is actually not that bad (around $1000) when you consider our special made boring quills cost around $500.00 not to mention the loose part usually rips a work support off the fixture. Still my biggest concern is integratting it becouse there price did not include them coming in and doing that.

Just to update anyone interested, I found a Machine Supply Co. that says they can do it via a radio remote control transmitter, receiver and pressure switches. They say they've never used it on machine tools so were going to try and see, the only thing that has me worried is integrating it to the machine control but those PLC programmers do things that make my head spin.

Just a regular old pressure transducer would work on a 3 axis single pallet machine, but with a rotary table and a automatic pallet changer you almost have to have wireless. I did run onto a company that would install a rotary arm on our machines so we could have live hydraulics during machining but at a price tag of around $16,000.00 a machine it has been a little hard to justify

We have the same problem I'm sure most shops with Hydraulic machining fixtures have-operators sending pallets into machines without having them clamped, and every now and then loosing pressure during the cylce. Which brings me to my question-has anyone ever seen any type of a wireless pressure transducer that you could put on the fixture and then have the receiver wired into the PLC on the machine that would send an alarm if the pressure dropped? Thanks for any input

James __________________________________________________ there's probably only 10% or less of the programmers out there actually competent(sp?)enough to comprehend what they are being taught. _________________________________________________ Boy that would probably offend somebody IF it wasn't true I have done just enough post work to make an existing one fit my machines, doing this by trial and error, but it's all Greek to me. [ 03-11-2003, 07:42 AM: Message edited by: mark l ]

Is this just East St. Louis or any place on the other side of the river?

I'm taking an Advanced mill class at QTE Manufacturing Solutions in St. Charles, MO next week. Has anyone taken any courses or had any dealings with this company, or is there anybody from that area that could tell me the places to go and not to go around St. Louis? The only thing I've been told by anybody is DO NOT go to East St. Louis Could it really be that bad?

Reworked a low pressure permenant mold for a G.M. lower crank case. It was welded up and I remachined it WHAT A NIGHTMARE. Finished it this morning, I'm going to take off early and have a beer.

I have a Spaceball 4000flx from 3d connexion, I use it some in mastercam but not very often, it is not very responsive, kind of chopy when I rotate, it probably has nothing to do with the spaceball itself but probably some setting that I have not found yet, but I have Solid edge and can't live without it. I beleive this model is pretty expencive though, around $500 or $600.

I did have this happen to me once, I don't really remember what I was doing but it seems to me I was copying toolpaths and then changing something like the size of the tool on the ones I copied and they would all go bad even the ones I had not done anything to, really frustrating seeing as how I had about 15 toolpaths. I don't really know what it was though, I finally finished the job and have not had it happen again. I don't really think it was a ram issue I have 1.0g of it, but hey if you want your boss to buy some more ram I'm sure somebody here will say it is.

Arty I'm a member of Sugar Loaf Lodge #414(F&AM), nice to make your aquantence brother [ 03-05-2003, 10:36 AM: Message edited by: mark l ]