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Hiring and training versus hiring experienced
Who here has had luck hiring a non-machinist off the street and getting them up to speed with machining concepts and equipment? I need to make a hire "NOW" and I'm debating between finding someone who shows some general aptitude with no experience that I can maybe get immediately versus...- DRobs86
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The first and last Haas I'll ever buy
I have a Haas ST15Y. I've had it for just under 3 years now, but it has less than 1000 hours. We've diagnosed that the processor board is sending bad signals on the X channel, causing some servo alarms and the machine to be inoperable. The HFO tech agrees with our assessment based on our...- DRobs86
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Can you recommend a metal finishing machine?
I am looking to invest in a metal finishing machine. We have a tumbler and multiple sanders, but I feel that we are spending more time than we need to. We have a fiber laser, waterjet, and mills. Lathe too, but I don't think a finishing machine will help us. Thicknesses range from 20 gauge to...- DRobs86
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This is what the laser shop sent me...
Sent some steel work out to a laser shop. Thought I'd get everyone's thoughts on what I got in from them. It's a smaller shop and I know one of the guys there really well. I didn't specify that they'd break the edge or finish the part. I just trusted my bud's shop to take care of me. They told...- DRobs86
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- Forum: Fabrication: CNC Laser, Waterjet, Plasma, Welding
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Aluminum extrusion
Does anyone have any insight on when it might make sense to own an extrusion press? We own several extrusion dies and use two different custom extrusion companies plus one "off the shelf" extrusion company. We are spending sickening amounts of money on extrusion. Has anyone looked at owning...- DRobs86
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How to get into sheet metal work?
We manufacture our own products. I have a chunk of sheet metal bending work that I outsource because we can't do it. As part of my year end review, I found that it might make sense to add metal bending, especially since we just put a deposit down on a fiber laser. Most of the sheet metal work...- DRobs86
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Waterjet rebuild techs in the Southeast?
I am looking for some competent technicians in the Southeast that can rebuild a waterjet intensifier pump. Specifically, I'd like to find someone good with the Flow hyper-pressure pump. I'd be willing to ship it. The local shops are incompetent.- DRobs86
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What is your waterjet run cost?
I'm analyzing just what it cost us to run our waterjet. It's an older Flow Mach 3. When it works right, it's the best tool in the shop. It's near netting stuff for the mills or running big parts we couldn't make otherwise. I'm starting to question the benefits of owning it though. I've had it...- DRobs86
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In the market for used laser for 1/4" steel. Used machines?
I'm in the market for a laser than can cut 1/4" steel cleanly and quickly. I have a waterjet that currently does steel profiling work for me, but it is slow relative to a laser and we are about beyond capacity on it. I've been looking at lasers like an Amada LC-1212 for a couple of years now...- DRobs86
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What progress do you expect from your new guys?
What kind of progress do you expect from new operators at the below specified intervals? We were doing training every Friday but things started getting so busy that we haven't been able to do that for several months. I learn very quickly and I'm told by people close to me that I expect too...- DRobs86
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What is the right and fair way to handle this?
I was in the market for a VMC. I already own one of the same brand that I considered buying. The older model of the same brand had a problem with the tool arm dropping when powered down or if E-stopped. It threw the arm into the spindle (actual machine malfunction) about a year or so ago and...- DRobs86
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Bar feeder for ST15Y
I recently took advantage of the sale Haas was running on the ST15Y. I planned to buy that and one of the BAR48B-SAP bar feeders they had on their "hotlist" (list of new, old stock). Long story short, the HFO dropped the ball and didn't move fast enough to secure one of those significantly...