Loadingā¦
20
A retired toolmaker at our shop in Akron said he used to eyeball every last cut, and I realized I lean on the DRO way too hard now
He said back in the 80s they trusted dials and feel because that was all they had, and honestly his scrap rate was lower than mine. Do you guys still hand-check stuff or is it all readouts and probes for you now?
1 comments
Log in to join the discussion
Log In1 Comment
faithb745d ago
Man, that hits home. I run a mill every day and I catch myself staring at the DRO like it's gonna do the job for me, when half the time I should just feel the cut and listen to the tool. So here's what I wanna know, when you say his scrap rate was lower, was that on the same kind of work you do now, or was he running simpler parts where eyeballing was actually easier? Because a guy in the 80s doing one-offs on a Bridgeport is a whole different ballgame than holding tenths on a modern part with a dozen features. Did the old timer ever show you a trick that made you put the readout down for a minute, or was it more just him being stubborn about the old ways?
3