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Topic: Cutting Manufacturing Costs and How it AFFECTS Product QUALITY
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Michael Moore
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Posts: 188
From: Dover, DE / USA
Registered: Jun 2006
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posted 05-10-2008 09:02 PM
I really believe that quality of equipment is only as good as the operators that run the equipment. If one does not maintain or keep the equipment up to par it will fail. And if the operator can not run the equipment properly then the equipment will fail.
I have a cheap smithy lathe/milling machine made in china. And well lets say many real machinists would say that Smithy Machines are crap.
I also have a small 1959 Atlas lathe, and many machinist would say that it is a fine machine.
However I can turn-down a piece of round stock on both machines with relatively the same accuracy; however the smithy needs a little more care to center everything. Also the Smithy needed to have adjustments for the tail stock and the gibs on the ways.
I have a 1953 Shopsmith 10ER, 5 in 1 machine, and many people say there has never been a machine made like it and never will be again. I will have to say the table saw on it is wonderful; however I can get the same results with a Delta, craftsman and Black & Decker with the same attention to detail
I worked for short time with an old timer machinist he said this, if youre a crap operator and you do not understand your equipment or pay attention to details, then you will produce crap no mater how expensive or good your tools are.
I think it is the same with projection equipment to an existent.
I have had the honor to run Simplex, Century, Cinemeccanica , Christy, Speco, Xetron, and many others. And have found many of the equipments to work just fine, and have had not problems running any one piece of equipment or working on any one piece. Yes I have confronted problems with particular pieces of equipment but once the problems are discovered and solved then the equipment works. While quality of materials is important, I think the operator and technician are the other parts of the equation that are just or even more so important.
Look at Burt Munro, built almost everything he had, modified his motorcycle, and did all the work himself; and still holds the land speed record for under 1000cc. He had an eye for detail and understood his machine.
Michael Moore
I have a 1953 Shopsmith 10ER, 5 in 1 machine, and many people say there has never been a machine made like it and never will be again.
I also have a small 1959 Atlas lathe,
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