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> initial setup of a CNC machine part. If you don't have $50K-$100K, you are setting this up by hand. Curious what specifically you need your hand inside for?
by froindt 9y ago
> initial setup of a CNC machine part. If you don't have $50K-$100K, you are setting this up by hand.
Curious what specifically you need your hand inside for? Do you simply mean the machine is on (though entirely inactive) while putting the part in, touching off the part slipping the business card in and out, or something else entirely?
- bsder 9y agoYeah, touching off the part as well as touching off all the cutting bits. It's remarkably easy to get your hand pinched if you take it a little too cavalierly.
- _trampeltier 9y agoIt's not just about CNC machines. All automated machines have to have E-Stops and so on. Mostly operators open door because something is mixed um inside. (To many bottles, broken bottles, broken paper, broken sensor, wathever .. Of course as more often you can build the same machine, as better you can work out details. But sometimes there is just "one" machine. Then usually have to work out the the flaws first .. A friend from school cleaned a CNC mill while the machine worked. The safety door was manipulated and the 2D table drove over his hand ..