On 8/16/2010 11:50 PM, pyotr filipivich wrote:

Ah, but with a CNC machine, you get to bonch parts of a higher
precision and tolerances (as well as expense) at a rate far exceeding
those possible with manual machining centers.

Especially given that a human will invariable and instinctively back off
as soon as things start making grunching noises, whereas a CNC will
happily continue feeding at the programmed rate until something stalls
or breaks...


Jon