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Heard a setup guy say something that stuck with me
I was at a small shop in Denver last month picking up some inserts and overheard an older setup guy tell a trainee "don't trust the offsets, trust your indicator." It hit me because I've been burned twice this year just typing in numbers from the tool setter without double checking. Has anyone else had a tool length offset throw off a part because you trusted the machine instead of measuring yourself?
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casey_harris14d ago
Does that mean you actually caught yourself almost believing a screen over your own eyes, or did you have to get burned first before it clicked? I'm curious because that GPS thing sounds like the same exact trap, just a different day. When did you start actually looking at the street signs instead of the map?
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I mean it's funny because it's not just in machining, it's like that with everything. I had a GPS tell me to turn down a one-way street the wrong way last week and I almost did it because I trusted the screen over my own eyes. Same thing with those self-checkout scales at the grocery store, they'll say an apple weighs two pounds and you just nod along until you put it on a real scale at home. The older guys always seem to know that numbers are just suggestions until you verify them yourself, whether it's a tool offset or a recipe or a weather forecast. Idk maybe it's just me but I feel like we all lean too hard on the machine to be right.
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