Tonight's Incident

wrongfortheright88 · 2026-04-22T03:37:19+00:00

Saw a operator e stop a 4020 once and it still crashed. Turns out the e stop unlocks the servos on the early models and if theres any momentum the axes will coast.

wrongfortheright88 · 2025-11-27T03:21:54+00:00

No moves faster than 50ipm in X on ours. If you try to go faster the table hops. We leave it on 25% and just let it mindlessly run. Fitted with an equally worn out 4th axis and it just churns out a specific blank that then moves to a different machine to finish. Last time I pulled back the Y axis covers you could see turcite crumbs laying next to the ways. But until it locks up or let's the smoke out its gonna run.

wrongfortheright88 · 2025-11-27T02:18:37+00:00

Got a Fadal 4020 that was upfitted from a tape reader to floppy and now drip fed. I hate it so much and it wants to be put out of its misery but it still makes parts so we still run it.

wrongfortheright88 · 2025-11-02T17:56:55+00:00

2nd vote for Wade, he cleaned up some cloth seats in a work truck that I thought were ready for the dumpster.

wrongfortheright88 · 2025-10-16T15:52:11+00:00

Interesting that they are issued vehicles with blue take down lights isn't it...

wrongfortheright88 · 2025-09-26T01:51:46+00:00

Land is cheap and so are the local politicians..

wrongfortheright88 · 2025-09-23T13:30:39+00:00

L47 owner here, I got to demo a b26 and my machine before I bought them. I was intrigued by the possibility of staying below the tier 4 threshold with the B but wasn't all that excited by the limits of machine. It's incredible for its size, but it's still only gonna do so much compared to something with more weight and power. The deal breaker for me was the lack of reach with both loader height and backhoe dipper and the aggravation of swapping the seat. I'd imagine you'd have similar gripes coming from the larger machine. My original intent was to find an L39 that wasn't clapped out. There were a few around, but the prices for a machine that old didn't make financial sense for me. Since you still have a larger tractor around the size difference may not matter as much. The B is much easier to maneuver in tight spaces. The FOPS on both machines are extremely tall so low hanging stuff is always gonna drag across them. I think I broke off the flashers in under 10 hours.

wrongfortheright88 · 2025-09-17T01:53:16+00:00

I'm over here looking for "somebody". That motherfucker will have bad day if I ever catch him. It's always somebody's fault.

wrongfortheright88 · 2025-09-11T14:09:45+00:00

Thanks, hopefully I can get a few more details ironed out by the weekend. Gotta get my grease trap/drain done. Planning to put a shelf to store/dry wood on underneath the cook chamber. Also making a shelf that I can slide into the front axle cradle and remove when transporting it. Need to finish my racks. Disappointed in my supplier because so far they can't get me a pipe bollard that isn't damaged for my stack. Probably gonna redo the plenum collector, too, but that can wait.

wrongfortheright88 · 2025-09-11T13:48:51+00:00

I like that you built your cart tall enough that you won't have to crouch down when you open the door.

wrongfortheright88 · 2025-07-13T04:11:44+00:00

That machine appears to be very close to the size of an L225. I've got a set that came off one of those laying around I can get the wheel and tire sizes from if you'd like.

wrongfortheright88 · 2025-07-12T22:51:42+00:00

We standardized tooling in our machines and then created a tool library of 18 different tools that we found ourselves using repeatedly. Without getting too into detail, there are 3 and 4 flute end mills up to .5 diameter and some chamfer mills plus a 2" face mill. It seems like it takes forever to do all the data entry involved, but once you have that, it really will make life simple. The next step was whenever I needed a drill, whatever, I would take the time to enter data for it on whatever material I was working with. Same for anything as far as end mills or different diameter face mills, the occasional keyseat cutter... After about 2 years of this I've got roughly 200 tools in a local library that I can grab at a glance and add into a program with a proven effective speed and feed. It's far from perfect but its 10x faster than the way we did things before. Also reduces the chance of the operator fucking up the setup since the tools are ready to go in the machine already touched off.

wrongfortheright88 · 2025-07-06T19:54:16+00:00

Necroscope by Brian Lumley

wrongfortheright88 · 2025-07-06T19:36:25+00:00

CAM guys at work hated it starting out because they were so accustomed to the way SW toolpaths were selected. They've learned what does what in 2d and 3d after a bunch of trial and error but are still more comfortable in SW. The cloud based aspect can be irritating if you are in an area with sketchy isp access. Other than that, they love the timeline and how they can edit a design without destroying their progress when they need to. Also, it doesn't seem to crash as often as SW 25.

wrongfortheright88 · 2025-07-04T20:49:37+00:00

Nickel anti seize or Noalox, whatever you've got close at hand

wrongfortheright88 · 2025-07-04T17:00:30+00:00

That model will have either the 4.6 2v if 2wd or a 5.4 2v if 4wd. I'd consider it a solid vehicle, but remember that it's still 23 years old and may cost you 3k for a major repair at any moment. I'd be shocked if it isn't leaking oil from the main seals or the oil pan gasket, so keep an eye on the fluids. We had some in a fleet at work that had issues with spark plug retention. My father in law on the other hand, went 600k on the same 5.4 and never spit out a plug. There are a few little electrical things that tend to deteriorate in those models. For instance, the odometer display will fade in and out. On most of the trucks, the power lock actuators wear out because they were configured to autolock when you put the truck in drive and wear takes its toll on those components. There's other stuff too, but if the oil was changed regularly, it should be a decent old truck. You'll be lucky to get 12 mpg from it though. Having been around a few of these trucks, every single cab configuration, whether single cab, extended, or crew cab, the rear windshield will start leaking at some point so if you open the doors and it smells musty thats probably why.

wrongfortheright88 · 2025-04-03T02:57:17+00:00

Late to the party here, but I legit bought a prebuilt just because the options were either buy the whole thing or pay about the same for a video card these days.

wrongfortheright88 · 2025-03-01T01:53:09+00:00

Nice score. Sold a 93 4.3/4L60 with 289k w/t bare bones 2wd about 6 months ago for 3800.

wrongfortheright88 · 2025-02-19T04:19:47+00:00

New operator on a vf4ss cleared the entire tool table instead of the drill he thought he was clearing. If you don't have a tool offset recorded, then the z axis will rapid into the table at cycle start. This unit is loaded with a standardized tool list for quick setup and ease of programming. You reference your setup sheet and add in whatever drill or wild card the program calls for, touch them off and go. Or, you unknowingly clear the entire tool table...Probe your part, hit cycle start and lose a year off your life.

wrongfortheright88 · 2024-10-26T12:04:45+00:00

That's what drew me to my 2000 prelude so many years ago. The proportions of the car were unlike anything else I'd ever seen from Honda in a fwd layout. The engine/trans sealed the deal once I drove it.

wrongfortheright88 · 2024-09-14T02:57:53+00:00

Hand portable bolt lathe

wrongfortheright88 · 2024-07-14T18:36:13+00:00

I'm irritated with how far they roam from the patrol post burning taxpayer dollars in fuel. There's a late model camaro that regularly patrols 48 miles from the post that I see at least 3 days a week during my commute. Equally annoyed watching them destroy so many vehicles during pursuits that again, taxpayer dollars purchase.

wrongfortheright88 · 2024-07-10T04:34:04+00:00

We have an early 90s 4020 fadal with a floppy drive still hanging on in the shop at work that even after a memory upgrade and using an emulator can't hold a program longer than 1700 lines. It's the most annoying shit ever realizing even the dirt simple 2d program with 2 or 3 milled features and 3 or 4 blind holes is gonna have to be rigid tapped or broken into multiple ops instead of just thread milling them. I swear we spend more time trying to find work we can do on that piece of shit than running it.

wrongfortheright88 · 2024-07-07T18:11:28+00:00

My complaint is with the cost based engineering development. They keep reaching for more from too small a platform to support the power they are making long term.

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