And You Thought You Were Having A Bad Machining Day

Wow, thats the trouble with expensive mesuring tools.

Don Bailey posted a series of video recently of rebuilding an abused od grinder tail stock, he had to use the tool room in his factory, he didn't seem happy at all, very subtle but I reckon their was some shouting hapening after the film crew left :)

Stuart
 
Two majors in 6 months, he's gone.

"Billy G"
 
First major, deducted from pay little at a time, Second time, full deduct from pay owed and no longer working there in other words you are fired and by the way you do not get a departing check.
 
Personally....I realized today I cannot hand feed .040 drills through 1/4" aluminum. I feed too fast and I can't see the drill enter the material. I'm getting too old for the fine stuff.
 
kvt said:
First major, deducted from pay little at a time, Second time, full deduct from pay owed and no longer working there in other words you are fired and by the way you do not get a departing check.
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Illegal as can be here in the states. About the only thing you can legally withhold is uniforms if not returned. Otherwise employer assumes risk and reward.
 
The yelling lasted for about 10 minutes. Glad it wasn't me. Sucks to be him.

He is still at work, but I don't know for how long.. I looked at lunch and we now have an ad up for a CNC machinist on Craigslist posted today.

We are getting slow now, so good time to do a little house cleaning.
 
ScrapMetal said:
That's what my 3X "readers" are for
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I tried some of those. apparently I can no longer feel when the drill encounters the aluminum and rapid into it.

I'll blame it on the machine and the stiffness of the quill. The problem is it's not sensitive enough, not that I can't feel it. A .040 (1mm) carbide drill spinning 2500 ought to be able to be felt entering aluminum. But no, it has to break for me. Stupid machine, anyway.
 
Not me but a shop I worked at:
I was in the drafting room when there was a loud "BOOM" and the whole building shook! (60 x 120 - 2 stories) Seems one of the CNC "operators" had chucked up a piece of 2" O.D. brass in the 4 axis turning center and left about three feet hanging out the back of the chuck... When it spun up to speed it noodled, whacked the floor (dug a 6" inch deep trench_) and jacked the whole machine out of it's bed... Destroyed the bearings and bent the spindle. Nearly new machine and it was down for almost 6 months and was never "right" after the rebuild. Yea, he didn't work there any longer...
Mark
 
Deerslayer said:
Illegal as can be here in the states. About the only thing you can legally withhold is uniforms if not returned. Otherwise employer assumes risk and reward.
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maybe, but they can still get away with it. I had a friend lose her job and her last paycheck of $2500. No lawyer would touch it as they wouldn't make enough money on the case. They all told her it was illegal to hold the check, but there was nothing she was able to do about it in the end since she wouldn't go to court on her own.
 
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