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^ propcat awarded for the very definition of a car-guy joke.
Last week I designed metal panels in CAD, to three decimal places of precision, for fabrication and coating by an outside house.
Today I did metal fabrication with masking tape, a ruler, a fine-tipped Sharpe, a drill press, and a hand tap.
While the finish quality of the former is vastly superior, I found the latter to be immensely more gratifying.
I also learned that it's illegal to sell spray paint in the city of Chicago, which is kind of a bummer. Don't really have time to drive out to the burbs...
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When you have the capabilities to research, design, fabricate, coat, and assemble in house. It's extremely gratifying.
Overhang i've been working on at the front door. It's getting a metal roof tomorrow.
Robot we've installed. Though i am not part of the implementation(hooking it up) and programming of the actual robot just being a part of something so radically different from what i normally do is awesome.
Today I was chided by the optical engineer for not carrying out the dimension on a certain design past 6 decimal places. He remarked that it could "introduce rounding errors." Keep in mind that these are drawings for the diamond machinists, who, in spite of their claims, do not actually cut with a precision of millionths of an inch.
On the other hand, the laser drawings have to be carried out to at least 8 decimal places or the programmer gets mad at me. Yes, the laser is (supposedly) actually that accurate.
I have only been kind of happy with the UR series robots. While they're easy as all get out to program and "collaboration" safe, their force control resolution is abysmal and their precision is only ok. Are you contracting the automation out or do you have an in-house group working on it?
Here's a pic of UR robots getting ready to take our jobs, because I dont want a ban.
The robot does receive programming from an engineer on a moment to moment basis. In this novel design approach the engineer is in the cabin offering command inputs by joystick rather than keyboard.
The robot does receive programming from an engineer on a moment to moment basis. In this novel design approach the engineer is in the cabin offering command inputs by joystick rather than keyboard.
It's several rather thick bound publications. Operation and Maintenance is one book. Assembly and Disassembly is another. Parts is another. Function, Testing and Structure is another.
I took these pictures of the same size machine at two different customer locations. The first is lifting a Ford conversion van and the second is sorting construction and demolition debris. The one in the building was poorly operated and poorly maintained and caught fire inside the building about three years later. Something about hydraulic oil-soaked wood dust and hot engine exhaust components.
Not related in any way, but an enjoyable way to spend a Friday off work. Penmaking!
I have been hunting, or at least going to the hunting camp for about 21 years now. My Father-in-Law, Don, invited me for the first time the year before I married his daughter. Don passed of cancer 2-1/2 years ago, and I haven't hunted for 4 or 5 years now. But I still go down to hang with the (old) guys, who are all friends of Don from way back. I'm the "kid" at 55! Since they're all getting up there in years, the camp (which is jointly owned) is now up for sale. So it may be the last time we all get together at the old place.
We built the cabin up there by hand (no electricity) with rough sawn red oak. I took home some of the leftover boards, and have had them stashed in the garage for well over a decade. Today I sawed off a chunk and cut it up into pen blanks. Bullet pens, because it is, after all, hunting camp. These all got made today, although I did some of the prep work last night.
I present 6 red oak pens for some very dear friends:
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