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WCDT: 2333-2337 (3-7 December 2012) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
DSL:
Now all we need is for Hanners to let Winslow upgrade to a holoprojector and for Faye to decide her art-metal shop needs a (cheap) drill press.
MillionDollar Belt Sander:
I mentioned it upstream... and a cheap drill-press would be hilarious.
DSL:
--- Quote from: MillionDollar Belt Sander on 08 Dec 2012, 08:15 ---I mentioned it upstream... and a cheap drill-press would be hilarious.
--- End quote ---
Only if you're on the other side of the safety glass, I imagine.
MillionDollar Belt Sander:
True story from the world of work.
I started my manufacturing career in a plastic factory. They did injection-molding of very complex mechanical parts... out of "Long Glass Fiber" materials such as Amodel and Isoplast. Exotic stuff, not your typical throw-away plastic materials.
We built a mold to manufacture a hub/housing/seal part for a major corporation. Engineering determined that in order to get maximum reinforcement from the "Long glass fiber" the plastic had to flow into the center of the part and radiate outward. This was called "center gating" and is normal for plastic molding.
Problem is the dead center of the part is where the shaft for the pump-driver went. This meant that we had to use a special "end mill" style cutting tool to add the critical-to-function feature back into the part.
Again, not a big deal, this kind of thing is normal in production.
This hole... was also a sealing surface, no fluid could leak around the driver-shaft. So it was determined that a skilled machinist (ahem, me) should perform the task.
Well it worked and we won the contract bid. Major Corporation loved our parts and our solution... and promptly doubled the order then tripled it again...
In order to keep up, one of the managers took a look at my Bridgeport Style Turret Milling Machine and declared it a "fancy drill-press." He then decided that it was too expensive to have a machinist do the "drilling" (in reality "milling").
His solution... he bought a drill-press sight unseen from a salvage yard. Got it in-house, the drive-shaft was bent so the drill-chuck wobbled real bad. On top of that it was much too fast, and there was no down-rate control.
Long story short, we managed to get the order done, but all of the parts were rejected for cracking and chipping on the seal-surface... that is the ones where the shaft hole were centered correctly... I think out of the thousands we made only a handful were even on center.
We lost the contract.
So, long story short... A cheap drill press can do major harm... there is a difference between a drill and a mill, and skilled machinists produce better parts than unskilled labor-minions.
jwhouk:
I knew there was a reason why you were called $1MBS. :)
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