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3:44 pm
March 22, 2010
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I joke with my friends who are REALLY machinists that if it requires more than three setups, its beyond my skill level;)
I fall into the Measure with a calibrated eye, mark it with a greasy finger and cut it with a torch category
I just own Micrometers to look cool.....
Whatever you are, be a good one.
Abraham Lincoln
7:21 am
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March 22, 2010
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MIcrometers?.......are those the things with little numbers that double as c-clamps, lol
7:03 pm
April 21, 2010
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Set ups? Where I come from that is getting ice and mixer for you choice of liquor (Crown and ice PLEASE).
6:31 am
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August 7, 2010
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I was having an interesting conversation with an "OLD" friend, he made his point VERY clear.
His Statement; "You machinists are allowed to be within 2 ten thousandths, Us Carpenters have to be RIGHT ON!!!
Huge grin!!!
As long as we are above our shoes, We know where we are.:happy:
3:08 pm
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April 26, 2010
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Having used a genuine metal cutting lathe for a few weeks now, I feel qualified to answer this question.
A "setup" is all the fussing, tweaking, mental gymnastics, and torquing down of hold-ems one does immediately prior to watching the work wobble in unexpected directions while breaking a freshly sharpened bit.:giggle:
Who would have thought a 7/8 chunk of steel could flex so much?
The good news is I'm getting lots of practice sharpening bits.:smug:
No matter where you go... there you are.
4:28 pm
March 22, 2010
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Naw.... Lee the Setup is really after you have been working on a part in the lathe for 18 hours and have it almost all the way done and measuring for the last critical dimension you use the wrong reference point and make it .160 tho smaller than its suppose to be basically turning it into two days worth of wasted time
Whatever you are, be a good one.
Abraham Lincoln
6:48 pm
May 14, 2010
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Larry L;4639 wrote: Naw.... Lee the Setup is really after you have been working on a part in the lathe for 18 hours and have it almost all the way done and measuring for the last critical dimension you use the wrong reference point and make it .160 tho smaller than its suppose to be basically turning it into two days worth of wasted time
Ouch. :banghead:
8:39 pm
June 3, 2010
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A "set up" is getting your poop grouped so you can geterdone and better yet have someone else to blame for the mistakes.
There IS a serious approach to the question but I'm not going there till someone else does and I can blame him/er!
Frosty
1:33 am
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April 19, 2010
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i always thought a setup is when you hauled your shop to a new location then "set up ":D
4:41 am
August 1, 2010
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I'm with Bill Cottrell. I am old enough to remember when NC restaurants were dry. You had to BYOB, and you got the waiter to bring you a set-up, basically a glass of ice and some sort of soda (pop to you non-southerners).
Real men threw the cork away, because they were never going to use it again.
7:39 pm
March 18, 2010
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To me a setup is an assemblage of stops and clamps and hold downs that allows you to produce hundreds of parts in a short time that are all exactly .160" too short.
“There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot,
but then there are others who, with the help of their art and their intelligence,
transform a yellow spot into the sun.” ~ Pablo Picasso ~
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