Overheard a new guy say 'I just eyeball the offsets' and had to bite my tongue

Told me he's been running production parts for two weeks without checking his G54 shift after a tool change, so after I showed him how to verify with an indicator we found he was off by .018 on 40 parts, anyone else have horror stories about new operators skipping setup checks?

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michaeltorres3d ago

Honestly, .018 is barely anything for most production work, people act like he scrapped a whole batch.

avery2192d ago

Wait, hold up. "Barely anything"? For real? On a high end production machine that's supposed to hold +/-.001? That's a mile off. One bad setup and you scrap a whole run of parts. I've seen a .005 screwup cost a shop a whole weekend. .018 is like crashing the spindle, not a tool change.

quinna892d ago

Had a .015 overshoot once, caught it before the next part loaded.