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Serious question, why does every new guy think you can just eyeball tool offsets?
I swear I've had three helpers in the last 2 months at the shop on Industrial Blvd. Each one tries to set offsets by looking at the tool and guessing. Then they wonder why the first part comes out 0.050 over. I literally watched one kid throw a $80 carbide endmill into a vice jaw. Does nobody teach how to use an edge finder anymore? Has anyone else dealt with this?
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haydenburns1mo ago
Read a study online that said something like 40% of new machinists skip the edge finder step entirely. It's gotta be the phone addiction honestly, they just want to rush through everything.
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parkernelson1mo ago
That "rush through everything" line hits home. I had a new guy in the shop last year who was so proud of his "fast" setup times, but he skipped the edge finder on a simple aluminum block. Ended up drilling a hole right through the edge of his part and into the vise jaw. He spent the next hour trying to figure out what went wrong while I had to re-cut the whole thing from scratch. It wasn't really the phone, more like he watched a TikTok of some guy doing it "speedrun style" and thought that was the proper way.
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