rake60
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A lot of the simple tasks at hand we've done a million times.
It's easy to become complacent and be thinking of the next step while
we should be thinking of what's going on in front of us at the moment.
My own actions, once again, are prompting the post.
At work while our CNC machines are running we often set up solid slugs
in an old manual turret lathe to spade drill holes in them as rough bores
for the parts we'll be making. We skin the face and OD so the bore will
run true when we chuck it up in the CNC. I very simple process to say
the least, and it gets boring very quickly. I touched off the OD of a piece and
dialed in a cut. Reached down for the feed lever and the tool took off
flying toward the chuck. I had grabbed the threading half nut lever
instead of the feed lever.
Even the simplest tasks require full attention. The machine doesn't know
when we're being stupid. It will do what you tell it to. Right or WRONG.
It's easy to become complacent and be thinking of the next step while
we should be thinking of what's going on in front of us at the moment.
My own actions, once again, are prompting the post.
At work while our CNC machines are running we often set up solid slugs
in an old manual turret lathe to spade drill holes in them as rough bores
for the parts we'll be making. We skin the face and OD so the bore will
run true when we chuck it up in the CNC. I very simple process to say
the least, and it gets boring very quickly. I touched off the OD of a piece and
dialed in a cut. Reached down for the feed lever and the tool took off
flying toward the chuck. I had grabbed the threading half nut lever
instead of the feed lever.
Even the simplest tasks require full attention. The machine doesn't know
when we're being stupid. It will do what you tell it to. Right or WRONG.
