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My boss let me run a job with a dull endmill and it cost us about $300 in scrap parts before I caught it.
Has anyone else had a shop push tools way past their life just to save a few bucks?
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tara7452mo ago
Eh, penny wise and pound foolish.
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ellis.robert1mo ago
Honestly, have you tried marking the tool life in the program itself? I just set a hard stop at a certain number of parts and it saved me from this exact headache.
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kais672mo ago
Yeah, I was reading a forum post last week about a guy who said his shop ran inserts until they were basically round. They saved maybe forty bucks on inserts but wrecked a spindle bearing. The math just doesn't add up. It's like they see the direct cost of the tool but are blind to the hidden costs of scrap, rework, and machine wear. That $300 in parts is just the start, who knows what that dull mill did to the machine itself.
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