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Boss handed me a post-it note with three G-code tips written by hand
This was about four days ago over in Tulsa. I've been running these Haas mills for a little over two years now and I thought I had a decent handle on things. But this old timer I work with just walks over, no warning, and drops this folded up post-it on the control panel. First tip was about using a different canned cycle for deeper pockets I was fighting with. Second one was a simple coordinate shift I never thought of. Third was just a feed rate trick for aluminum. Tried all three yesterday and it cut my cycle time by about 15 percent on a run of 40 parts. Has anyone else gotten a random handwritten note from a veteran that ended up being way more useful than any manual?
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margaret_flores1718d ago
You ever get one of those tips that changes how you look at everything? My old man taught me how to sharpen drill bits by hand when I was a kid. Just a quick demo on a bench grinder. Took me years to realize he was giving me the secret to not ruining tooling. I still mess it up sometimes but when it works the chips come off like butter. Bet that post-it is worth more than a stack of manuals.
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the_wyatt18d ago
Got a buddy over in Wichita who runs an old Mazak lathe. About six months back an older guy he'd never seen before walked up during his lunch break and handed him a napkin with three threading notes on it. First one was about changing his infeed angle for coarser threads. Second was a weird peck cycle for deep internal threads that kept chipping his inserts. Third was just "slow down your spindle 15% on the last pass, trust me." My buddy @margaret_flores17 would love this story because he said that napkin saved him like three hundred bucks a month on inserts alone. He still has it taped to his toolbox.
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