Is Making Money More Important Than Breaking Tools?

[Tennessee]

I feel like I should be wearing safety glasses while watching this video.

[lozfan]

Don't forget that heat buildup is often non-negligible. Fast might be good but if the product gets too hot and gets ruined then you lose all the time saved and tools you already burned through.

[MrQuijibo]

Running a blunt tool on inconel is a good way to put a hard as f*** skin on it that costs 10x the time to deal with. You can see the material discoloring from heat due to a blunt tool in this clip. Workpiece overheating will mess with your measurements, the machine will wear out faster, its noisy AF, the guy who takes over the machine next will be angry at a magazine filled with blunt tools and lose time changing them all, etc. There's more than just the tool life to consider.

[GodzHammer]

It also depends on how many orders you have lined up. If you don’t have another customer lined up in queue it doesn’t make much sense to speed up the machine.

[tylerkinley]

It's a matter of financial efficiency really. If the increased savings in time, labor, and machine time far exceed costs of tool wear/replacement, it's a win.

[sparking]

Like in many other professions, it's all about finding that happy medium between time, cost and quality. You can't have all three.

[Kingdingaling]

I feel like wear and tear on the actual machine itself should be a factor too. I know they’re built like tanks but applying the extra force has to be harder on them and they’re the most expensive part of the operation not to mention the entire life line of it.

[DarkMetaOFFICIAL]

a lot of tools and attachments we use in construction, a normal home user would be more careful, make em last, save them, etc. we drive em into the ground to get the work done til they break. thats why we buy 2 for that job, and plan on using it up as cost of business, disposable, cuz we're making more money than would be worth the time of babying it or servicing tools sometimes even. you can find tons of new tools in garbage cuz contractors just buy new ones, and also workers who don't own tools use them improperly, overheating burning brushes etc, and they get tossed. freaking 300 dollar machine needs a 20 dollar repair, good to go lol. but it is what it is

[ausinasmith]

Those super hot blue streaks are causing the metal become too hot and make pockets or warps destroying or weaking the atomic bonds they had. People use coolant for a reason

[petroskefallinos]

if the tool is working 24/7 then you are correct

[davideyres]

Love the end result of that machining. Some sort of valve but looks like a sculpture. If this was Victorian times they would deliberately leave it like that rather than give it a surface finishing pass to smooth it off because it looks good. Didn’t matter that it may be in a sewage pumping station. They still took the time to make things have some physical attractive qualities in addition to their structural condition.

[riverrobles]

Can only work as hard as the technicians you have fixing them

[chrisnameless]

I can't count the times slowing down a machine meant higher production numbers. All manufacturers think that speeding it up means better numbers, but there is a point where it just means more downtime.

[sicknashty]

You're not making money if you make dogshit and break your tools.

[connorvanzant]

in aerospace shit needs to be smooth ive spent countless hours sanding and polishing aluminum parts before chemical conversion and paint because our previous machine shop was super inconsistent with how they ran their machines, but thats money lost in our shop rather then theirs so sometyings gotta give i guess😂

[UnlockAnimeWhispers]

Not about heat neater tools breaking but the spindle bearings and the transmission might be under stresse

[lklmmedia]

Tool capabilities and tolerances aren't the only thing to consider, you need to consider the material being Tooled, and whether it can handle increased pressure and Heat associated with pushing harder and faster.

[CNCMatrix]

I remember this part, what a bunch of wasted tiem and money. You could've simply used a feed mill to both plunge mill and feed mill the majority of that part much faster with no broken $450 end mills. And they would've performed better in tougher materials too.

[Voonsnt]

All about finding that golden ratio 👌🏽

[devmeistersuperprecision]

Very good point. Also remember that chip load is important. Too low of a chip load results in the tool taking too much heat. So you want to run as fast as possible so the chip load becomes thermally sacrificial. If you continue to push the tool, you up production. And your right, you may see situations where it’s cheaper to burn the tool in comparison to the money made from the part.