2nd shift left this mess. What would you do?

2 nights in a row. Jeez. What would you do if you walked into this to start your day? Some savvy and hilarious recommendations from the machinist community below. This post generated over 735 comments in just a few days…

Top comments include:

• “Take the chip piles out, put em in a can then after your shift put both piles back in the machine and go home”

• “If it goes to a third day, that would be stuffed in their fucking toolbox drawers”

• “Great management team. Not. Free advice - Go to work for a well run company.”

• “Pretty dangerous. Be real fun when that pile gets grabbed by the chuck and blows the door off”

• “Take it to the designated chip disposal, do your job and when shift is over don't leave a mess go about your life and don't stoop to a level under your own standard.”

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This post generated over 1220 comments in just a few days. Some of our favorites…

• “Higher up is a moron 😂 💯”

• “I would clamp like the 2nd photo, I try to get it close to parallel as possible to maximize clamping surface area. However always bias toward second rather than first.”

• “The 2nd photo is correct and I've always been told you also don't want the clamp level to slightly elevate the back higher than the front will push all the clamping force into the part.”

• “Top photo is a good example of a bad example and why people that know very little shouldn't be in a management position. The downfall of American industry.”

• “I was taught for it to level or a 1/32 higher”

• “Top one can have the possibility of pushing the part and very low holding power as well as deformation of the edge of the part. Your heel should always be higher than surface clamping to make sure you only have downward pressure on the block directly underneath the clamp. Makes you wonder how some people make it to higher up positions”

• “Put it the way he wants.....

  Scrap part after it moves....

  Go put it on his desk ......

  Explain what down pressure is.....

  Make him sign the scrap report.....

  Start again like a machinist ......”

Question of the Day⁉️

The top recommendation:

Best thing for the captain lathe. Would to let it do a 20-30 minute warmup and let the x and z axis move back and forth a few inches to get the ball screws to heat up some. Help to predict the machines offset adjustments.

Also on the O.D. raise the offset on the finish tool and rough tool about .060. Run the tool paths. Get a measure meant for the finish to adjust half of it. Run it again. Measure see if it took the adjustment you put in. If not you can see how the machine is handle adjustments and adjust accordingly.

When I work with older machines I do this creep up/down method. To dial in tool offset.

My suggested method would be:

• Lathe Toolpath:

  • Face

  • Rough od

  • Drill for bore

  • Rough bore

  • Finish bore

  • Finish OD

  • Cut off add .020 to length

  • Flip hold on OD

  • Face to length

  • Spot

  • Tap Drill

  • Tap

• Mill:

  • Slot face for

If the captain has live tooling tool the slot on the captain on 2o

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