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   by gak_pdx 10y ago

   You caught me! Confession? I had a better surrounding blurb explaining takt time, because people who read my (once a year) posts get off on the nerdery, but it was clunky, so I sort of inaccurately dropped it in with a link to the real defi
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   by gak_pdx 10y ago

   I avoided writing about the structural stuff in the article, only because ceramics - beyond the basic, off the shelf stuff, are WAY above my paygrade. Some people argue that ceramics are OK for a phone (that Mi5? I think, has a ceramic shel
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   by gak_pdx 10y ago

   Crazy slow on the feeds and speeds, diamond coated tooling (Harvey is where to go). Macor is highly structurally compromised compared to other ceramics to make it machinable. Typically, production (which is to say, low volume med/aero&
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   by gak_pdx 11y ago

   Noted. Check the website again.
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   by gak_pdx 12y ago

   Thanks for the "tollbooth" catch! I've taken to typing "toolpath" as all one word, and autocorrect got me... (Author of the linked article). Also, ain't no way an $8k desktop mill will ever have the rigidity or