Todays Project - What did you do today?
(02-08-2013, 01:44 AM)Tony Wells Wrote: It wasn't today, but I got the shop's attention once by running over an open steady rest on a Pro 60. It's a nice mid sized CNC lathe with pulse generator handles so you kind of get the sense of a manual lathe. I had an 8" OD part in the steady and was sneaking up on the face to qualify the tool, but I didn't realize there was a large boring bar in the back turret (flat bed lathe). Well, it was lined up perfectly with the opened steady, which was laid open about 180 °. Kind of dark in the enclosure, and with the pulse generators, one thing missing is force feedback. Those servomotors are pretty stout, especially when you can't feel a thing when they run up against something. It snapped the casting like a twig, and the top half of the steady hit the pan like a rock. Probably weighed 60 lbs. Fortunately, everyone knew what it was, because I wasn't the first guy to break it. I was just filling in for the regular operator, who was the original wrecker. To the weld shop it went, but it shut the machine down for half a day. And embarrassed me a good bit. But them we all laughed about it.

Tony,

That would be embarrassing for sure. Those are the types of lessons one seldom forgets though. Smile

Ed
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RE: Todays Project - by DanH - 08-14-2012, 10:13 PM
RE: Todays Project - by DaveH - 08-15-2012, 01:01 PM
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RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - by Wawoodman - 09-05-2012, 01:03 PM
RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - by Wawoodman - 09-27-2012, 07:15 PM
RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - by Wawoodman - 09-29-2012, 12:50 PM
RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - by Wawoodman - 10-10-2012, 02:08 PM
RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - by Bill Gruby - 10-16-2012, 02:31 PM
RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - by Bill Gruby - 11-01-2012, 07:35 AM
RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - by Bill Gruby - 11-01-2012, 04:16 PM
RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - by Bill Gruby - 11-02-2012, 08:50 PM
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RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - by Bill Gruby - 01-10-2013, 07:25 AM
RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - by Bill Gruby - 01-27-2013, 02:55 PM
RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - by Bill Gruby - 02-02-2013, 05:05 PM
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