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Showerthought: I used to baby my machine with a full warm-up cycle every morning, but after a job in Detroit where we ran three shifts nonstop for a week, I realized these things are built to work, not coddle.
Now I just do a quick axis jog and a test cut on some scrap, which saves me about 15 minutes a day and hasn't caused a single issue in over a year, so am I the only one who thinks we overcomplicate machine prep?
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the_avery17d ago
Maybe you just got lucky so far.
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allen.ivan17d ago
Yeah, luck is part of it, but so is knowing your specific machine. I had an old mill that needed the full song and dance, but the newer CNC at my shop now just needs to know where it is. The manual might say one thing, but the machine's actual wear and tolerance tells you another.
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