Getting my butt kicked at work this week

SG John

SG John

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I hope you're all enjoying working at home. Since I'm essential, I'm still in the field. A customer had one of their large five axis milling machines go down with C axis scale alarms. Upon closer inspection, we found that the motor, scale, planetary gears, ring gear and bearings are all shot. We also found the the Y axis rails were rusty and Y axis ballscrew and bearing set were junk. It just kept getting better as we were taking it apart. Y axis motor had two broken mounting tabs, and a bent mounting plate (19 mm thick steel!). Half of the 16 mm bolts holding the Y axis rails in place were snapped from being crashed hard so many times over the years. This poor machine has been beaten hard. Hoping to have the parts list all sorted by Monday, then will probably take a month to get everything here from Germany. The table is almost five feet in diameter, and the rails and ball screw are about nine feet long.


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Im in the wrong business!
however I too am Expendable-- I mean Essential -- (I work from home EVERY DAY) -- however we have been EXTRA BUSY Ive been on the road every day for 2 weeks straight including weekends--
we ARE working tomorrow -- and we have more work coming in than we have crew and time in a day to accomplish-----booked solid for three weeks -- and having a scheduling nightmare--
 
You can make anything you want. In the video are motorcycle rims and many medical devices such as knee joints and spinal implants being made. You can make impellers for turbines and all sorts of fun stuff in a five axis mill. You can even do a cylinder head in one shot. Every valve angle, combustion chamber, spark plug hole, whatever.


 
Mr Grumpy said:
I hope you're being paid lots of overtime, SG John and Gball.
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I'm actually getting Ficked quite hard right now. The company is crying poor-mouth after having a bigger 2019 than any year in it's history. Pay cuts across the board, and no overtime (even on billable calls the customers are paying for). still squeezing a few hours of O.T. this week, as the customer wants to be able to order parts as fast as possible to get this monster back on line. Had a job interview last week, and another next week sometime. I'll entertain all offers, as all of our competitors are trying to get ready to do business again as soon as it's safe to travel again.
 
Cadorman said:
@SG John have you ever done anything with Manley? You are in the right area. I know Tripp.
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No haven't been to Manley. One of my previous employers has several machines at S&S. I've never been there, as it's not my region. My last employer does have a few machines at Harley in Milwaukee, but I have never been there as one tech gets to claim that visit who lives nearby.
 
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LRT said:
With that many problems it couldn't have very precise. Sounds like you bit of a project. Its good that your still working though
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It wasn't. When we started pointing out problems to the owner's son, he said "That's why we can't hold tight tolerances anymore."
 
I worked in a machine shop when I was 17 running a VMC and a CNC lathe also spent time on the water jet. Lost job due to being a teenager doing everything I wasn't supposed to do. I did start to learn the auto cad though.

That mill is impressive that your working on
 
Duplicating many keys today for a Hotel..had to rekey the Hotel's new locks with a Master overide..each lock cylinder has to be taken out & re pinned to work with it's key & mster override ..the problemo..you say.??.the owner bought locks with all the same keys..normally we re pin quick..now each lock has to be completely re pinned & new key cut..luckily we have gazillion keys around...tech re pinned them all & i made all the key dupes...

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