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Vent: crashed a brand new $600 endmill into a part because I forgot to re-zero after a tool change
I was running a job in my buddy's shop near Detroit last Tuesday, working on a tight tolerance aluminum bracket, and I got distracted by a phone call, swapped out a drill bit, and completely spaced on setting my Z offset before hitting cycle start, which sent the endmill straight through the fixture and the part, destroying both and costing me the whole afternoon to re-machine the replacement, has anyone else had a brain fart like that ruin their day?
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scott.mia2d ago
Happens to the best of us. That sinking sound, man.
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evanfox2d ago
That sinking sound, man" - for me it's always followed by a really creative swear word I didn't know I had in me lol. I once crashed a $400 endmill because I sneezed while hitting the cycle start button.
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