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Getting close!Do you feel like you're on a treadmill?
I’ve heard that practice makes perfect and I’ve also heard that repetition produces rejects. You are either really in practice or there is a big bin of rejects we haven’t seen. Awesome work Chris.Eric
Continuing on with the side cuts on the track segments, 53 done, 28 to go... These are taking a bit longer than the other cuts, roughly 4 minutes per segment to do the two sides on each. A few more sessions should see them done, ready for the next operation...The bin is getting a lot lighter on each operation, down around 4 pounds of parts left - need to empty the bucket on the vacuum! Just goes to show, machining is just converting large perfectly good bars of metal into small useful parts and large piles of chips!
Quote from: crueby on August 08, 2018, 08:11:53 PMContinuing on with the side cuts on the track segments, 53 done, 28 to go... These are taking a bit longer than the other cuts, roughly 4 minutes per segment to do the two sides on each. A few more sessions should see them done, ready for the next operation...The bin is getting a lot lighter on each operation, down around 4 pounds of parts left - need to empty the bucket on the vacuum! Just goes to show, machining is just converting large perfectly good bars of metal into small useful parts and large piles of chips!I took a tour of an Aircraft Plant when I was first starting CNC, At one point near the beginning of the tour we watched them load a two hundred pound slab of titanium on a CNC Machining Center. We passed it a couple of more times in the tour, once when there was a guy inside the enclosure with a broom removing chips. Near the end we were back at the mill when It finished and they removed two five pound parts. The tour guide told us there main product was swarf and aircraft parts were a byproduct. I also found out that if you were hired there ether as an operator or a programmer your first year was on swarf removal, I declined the offer of a position, I figured if I was going to wheeled a shovel I might as well do it on a farm.
hi Chris,,,, done... to go !!!!