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carr.luna
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4h ago
Appreciation post: the night shift guy who saved my setup with a Sharpie
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rivera.hannah
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1d ago
Hit a 0.0005 inch tolerance on a shaft nobody asked me to hold that tight
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taylor_wells
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2d ago
Vent: crashed a $400 rougher into the vise on a Friday afternoon
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wesleyshah
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3d ago
Am I the only one who switched from CAM software back to hand programming on the lathe?
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the_rowan
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4d ago
Spent 3 hours chasing a chatter problem that turned out to be one stupid thing
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ross.felix
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5d ago
Ran my first batch of parts with a feeds and speeds app instead of the old cheat sheet taped to my machine
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hernandez.gavin
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5d ago
My chuck key went missing for 3 days and I found it in the last place I expected
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the_riley
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6d ago
A setup guy in Dayton told me to stop touching my offsets after a tool change, and my scrap rate dropped off a cliff
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dianawilson
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7d ago
Appreciation post: 11 years on the same Okuma lathe and the turret still indexes dead on
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casey268
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7d ago
A tool grinder in Dayton asked me why I zero off the vise jaw and I could not give him a real answer
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rivera.hannah
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8d ago
I used to skip the rough pass and just take one deep cut, and a tool rep at the Rockford show changed my mind
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colegarcia
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13d ago
Appreciation post: went back to blue layout dye after 2 years of running dry erase marker on steel
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abby_brown
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14d ago
The guy running the Okuma next to me said my finish passes looked like I was in a hurry, so I dropped my feed from 12 to 8
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parker_webb
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14d ago
PSA: Stop telling new guys to crank the rapids to 100%, I watched a guy crash a $90k Haas last Tuesday in Rockford
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hernandez.gavin
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15d ago
Ran my finish pass at 800 SFM on 6061 for 2 months before a guy in Toledo asked what my spindle load was doing
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