[AT] OT: non-tractor covid-19 activates

[Mark Johnson]

Hey - no problem with the CNC talk, at least not from me. I've been a 
software guy all my life but I find machining absolutely fascinating - 
wish I had learned more about it! I'm learning now...

Mark J

Columbia, MO

On 4/3/2020 5:38 AM, Stephen Offiler wrote:
> Hi John -
>
> Hope the list will tolerate some CNC banter.  We have 1 job that we 
> hold close, using .0001" offsets; all the rest it would be more like 
> .0005" or more.  Swiss excels in small precise stuff and also long 
> slender stuff, and we are heavy on the latter.  Don't need all that 
> precision, but it's handy to have:  I can give the guys setup sheets 
> with .XXX" dimensions and no tolerance, and they can hit the numbers 
> dead-on quite easily.  Keeps me from having to even think about 
> tolerances which is quite a luxury for an engineer.