Oops

This morning I almost messed up. When ever I start up the big KOMO I have to home the tool changer. So I always the night before make sure that I have removed any tools from the spindle. This morning when I hit the spindle release I watched a tool fall out, right into this big ass wire. Well I shut the power all the way down before touching the tool.

The shop panoramic

Good times

Fanuc

Mori Seiki CL 25 & SL 25

Mori Seiki

Here is a little video where i put my phone inside one of the lathes. Just a small part.

Mori Seiki SL 250 CNC lathe with live tooling

Day 4 Jan 6, 2012

Today it became official

I Am The Last Machinist

 

The Picture in my post mean nothing they are just random pics I take at work

Day 3 Jan 5, 2012

Walked into work today. Barely get in the door and the boss is cornering me. My thoughts are he is going to send me home. Still missing cars in the parking lot. No not today. He wanted to impress to me the importance of the job that he was going to give to me today. This job is for a company that we had lost. They were one of the largest clients that we had. I need to get some of the parts out today. If they are happy with the parts they could come back to us. Which would mean more work and maybe more employees. 

Today the other machinist is not here. Tomorrow is his last day. The boss called us all together. The 3 of us that are here today. To let us know that the other machinist will no longer work here with us after tomorrow. To bad we all knew this alway lol.

The customer supplied the martial for this job. None of the martial is the same size. It is supose to be tube not solid rod. Some is some isn't. I have to machine the martial to the size I need it before I ca machine it in to parts.

At the end of the day the 8 parts he asked for got sent to the customer. Now to see if they are happy with my work.

Stay tuned
LWH