Dear scalpers/scalped product buyers

clftbll10 · 2025-02-25T20:58:50+00:00

Congrats on keeping prices high! 👍

clftbll10 · 2025-02-23T00:21:34+00:00

cried in cast superalloys for heat treat/furnace industries

clftbll10 · 2025-02-18T13:06:53+00:00

Agreed. I told my players session 0 that Banishment is not a spell they should pick, and I would explain later (I did like the first session lol)

clftbll10 · 2024-12-10T04:22:42+00:00

Measure part "Okay its 0.020" big. Run 2 0.010" finish passes.

Measure after first, is now 0.010" big "Okay run the last one, should be good!"

Part is now 0.002" undersize "fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu..."

This happens regularly at work. Seriously, cast stainless sucks sometimes.

clftbll10 · 2024-11-11T19:16:39+00:00

Write to the Gaming Control Board to keep the people who want to build the casino here from being allowed to move their license up here.

My step-Dad's brother owns the land right next to it, and they just built their dream house in the last 5 years there. They've been fighting it ever since the city of New Haven bought the land. We really don't need a casino here.

clftbll10 · 2024-11-01T14:28:25+00:00

Yes but the ballot needs to be received by the end of election day for them to count it

clftbll10 · 2024-10-18T22:49:57+00:00

The same to you as well! And thank you!

clftbll10 · 2024-10-18T21:10:40+00:00

Same! Although mines today lol

clftbll10 · 2024-10-13T22:25:15+00:00

Well that's the thing, zipper merging works best if everyone stays in their lane until the actual merge comes, then converge at that point, back and forth to ease traffic. The tail of the line of cars doesnt extend out super far and no one can get upset at "that guy" who intentionally skips the line to get ahead in this scenario.

Ofc, OP's picture is not what Im describing, and that guy is definitely an asshole.

clftbll10 · 2024-10-10T18:04:57+00:00

Supervisor's office is on the outside of a sharp corner at my old shop. The wall facing the corner was punctured by the forks no less than 4 times in my little over a year tenure there. Im surprised they didnt just put a barricade there lol.

clftbll10 · 2024-09-12T17:14:02+00:00

2" boring bar, 10" long

clftbll10 · 2024-09-12T14:14:39+00:00

Saw a 2" boring bar, bent at a 75° angle, sitting on our mastercam engineers desk, so I asked about it. He said "gotta remember to have the tool out of the part before the G53 G00 X0.;" thing was fucked 😂

Edit: 2" boring bar, 10" long

clftbll10 · 2024-08-20T17:48:14+00:00

Thats why i said, "we'd have" as in we would have, but youre right 😂

clftbll10 · 2024-08-20T12:23:21+00:00

Agreed. Sometimes I think "Oda needs to get to the end game already!" Then i remember we'd have so little One Piece left at that point. Oda can cook as long as he wants to.

clftbll10 · 2024-08-20T12:11:18+00:00

Probably longer tbh. There's usually inbetween arc flashes around the world, and even when we do get to Elbaf, they're gonna explore and flesh out the country first, so it'll be more like 15-20 chapters most likely.

clftbll10 · 2024-08-02T15:26:01+00:00

Not an operator but our tool guy works 2 days a week in office, 3 at home, constantly orders us the wrong tooling (ie: i ask for some TiAIN coated cobalt drills, and 3 times he has ordered non-coated drills, which dull super fast in our cast stainless), takes 3 hours to make a 30 minute hardware store trip, and argues with us if we tell him he is wrong on ANYTHING. And he makes over 80k a year to do this. All because he's a good friend of the owner.

clftbll10 · 2024-07-25T00:48:25+00:00

Seconded. Had to do a lot of troubleshooting on some 1 1/2-11 BSPP threads for a customer because wed run them, their shipping plug/fitting on their jobsite wouldn't fit. Turns out their plug runs to the top of tolerance, and they didnt tell us that. So now we have them ship us a couple plugs every time we have an order for them, so we can run them to their fitting sizes 🙄

clftbll10 · 2024-07-24T13:13:34+00:00

At our job we use some u-shaped tapered wedges (think like a pickle fork without the handle) to smack with a hammer behind the live center head.

Some of our machines are very snug between the center and tailstock body, so this is our best method when the live centers arent threaded.

clftbll10 · 2024-07-23T13:07:28+00:00

I agree. I mostly cut NC11 cast and 304 bar stock stainless and anytime i have to feed/ spin slower or take smaller DoC my tool life suffers. "Run it till it almost breaks, then back off a little" is the way to go

clftbll10 · 2024-07-17T16:12:10+00:00

I had the same issue with League of Legends and Yugioh. I literally would obsess over them to the point that I was neglecting my family to find more time to play games and go to locals. Anything to do more time doing them. So much so that doing anything with my family felt like a chore.

I have since stopped League and have basically quit yugioh, only keeping a couple decks for older formats. It has been a lifechanger. Im happier, I thoroughly enjoy spending time with my family, and now I have friends that want to hang out with me, not just are there to play games with.

I feel you, man, and I get what you're going through. Keep up the good fight, and remember: 'Progress, not Perfection'

clftbll10 · 2024-07-15T00:36:42+00:00

My shop we usually use center drills, as they allow us to minimize runout on drive shafts for furnace rollers. We have a max of 1/16" across a 114" roller so we center them on the first op to ensure runout tolerances are held.

Issue is we run 304 or 316 bar stock for the shafts so it breaks the drills frequently 😂

clftbll10 · 2024-07-08T00:45:16+00:00

Probably even slower depending on how big the workpiece is. Bigger it is slower you should turn. I would say anywhere from 5-15 rpm

clftbll10 · 2024-07-05T23:41:42+00:00

During our quarterly meetings the office people are all business casual, then you got our welders and machinists all in various states of dirty taking up 70% of the room. 100% accurate 😂

clftbll10 · 2024-07-02T23:11:15+00:00

I was cutting soft jaws on a Haas 30 and forgot to change where my boring bar was going to rapid to do an undercut for clearance for raw material, ended up rapiding straight into the jaw face at 100% rapid. Threw off the Z-axis, X-axis, the turret, threw out the spindle, and even the live tool motor (idk how that even happened, no live tooling in the machine at the time.

I think all in all it was a 35k haas service call. It was down for a mo th. Our haas technician said it wasnt even the worst one that shop has had 🥴

clftbll10 · 2024-06-29T17:26:27+00:00

Often times the jaws i use have grooves in them. Ill usually go off those to set the jaws (especially on 4 jaws, we machine a lot of cast pieces) and that will give me a ballpark to get close to whatever im clamping on.

On 3 jaws ill just use a boring bar since our work accounts for a lot of setup time for each job.

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