LargeAdam
03-14-2010, 04:38 PM
So the story goes....i am an engineer and i understand the importance of preventive maintenance....but after you read this you will see why i took myself outside, picked my own switch and gave myself a good ***-whooping.
i have been running my machine for about 120 hours now and this weekend was set aside to create something memorable for my beautiful wife.
so i set up everything, followed the procedure and let the machine start a 5.5 hour carve. When it was finished i rushed out to my weekend studio (garage by week) and found my lovely piece of maple with what can only be described as the Nazca Lines (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazca_Lines).
my whole neighbourhood thought i was having a fight, but alas no it was my dockers mouth arising.
So what was the issue? look at the photo (http://largeadam.com/paying_attention) of my good bit on the right and the offender on the left. If i had paid attention to the preventive maintenance then this would not have happened. now i have to buy a new bit and probably a new chuck......
i have been running my machine for about 120 hours now and this weekend was set aside to create something memorable for my beautiful wife.
so i set up everything, followed the procedure and let the machine start a 5.5 hour carve. When it was finished i rushed out to my weekend studio (garage by week) and found my lovely piece of maple with what can only be described as the Nazca Lines (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazca_Lines).
my whole neighbourhood thought i was having a fight, but alas no it was my dockers mouth arising.
So what was the issue? look at the photo (http://largeadam.com/paying_attention) of my good bit on the right and the offender on the left. If i had paid attention to the preventive maintenance then this would not have happened. now i have to buy a new bit and probably a new chuck......