On 1 Feb 2004 10:00:43 -0800, jim rozen wrote:

In article , Peter Kiproff says...

I'm not concerned about speed, even .010" cuts as long as I can walk away
are fine.

The only comment I could make here is, the fastest way
to get fired from a CNC shop is to walk away from a
machine while it's cutting. That was a real no-no
in the place I worked.

Jim


Unless you are tending the other 3 machines in the cell. Or its a
'lights out" operation, or you are bar feeding, or...

Depends on the shop, the job, etc etc. Most places the folks dont leave
the machines simply because cycle times are so short that they have to
keep feeding the machine to keep production up.

Chuckle..lots of shops I work in..have a card table in the middle of the
shop. They play cards, etc etc. But they always are listening.....

Gunner

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