I think it happened only a few posts inmud_king91 wrote:have to ask how did this go from speeding ticket to machining ?
Yeah NC's are a crucial part these days but the manual machines still have their place and always will. What's quicker; chucking a block in a vice on a manual machine and shaving a few mill off and away you go or chucking it in the NC, setting your Z height, finding you don't have the right tool in the machine, setting the tool height for the job you want and writing even a few lines of G-code? Then again manual machines can't cut a perfect radius and 3D profiles in a matter of minutes.
Talking about speeding tickets once again I really hope I don't get one in the mail in a week or two; Was coming home last week and out of a roundabout that goes into an 80 zone I decided to keep going (because the car wanted to ) Slowed back down and only a couple hundred meters up the road there were TWO cars with the equipment on the front! I've never seen one whilst driving myself and I never go over. The one time I do and there's two waiting...