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well, since i havent been online in a couple days ill fill everyone in...

The new guy that i was worried about replacing...wasnt coming in to replace me after all, he was a mold maker from a shop...

no, like i said before i know and understand that i dont have all of the knowledge that i could have and i know that there is so much more to learn but when i do setups for a man twice my age, with...

well first off, Id like to thank everyone for there input, I would have been on earlier but due to a freak tornado, all internet has been down (thank god that was all that I lost).
Rather than...

i asked everyone to read my thread in hopes to get responses from both sides of the fence... so here we go.

Everyday i perform all duties that any other CNC setup man/supervisor would do in a shop...

unfortunatly in my area 'years' on a machine are mush more important than knowledge of the machine/tooling/material/prints/programming, once again i am by no means trying to state that i am a master...

Im down in South Florida as a setup/operator/supervisor in charge of production of 11 mills and im making $12....i feel as if im over worked and under payed but im sure everyone has felt that way at...

weve definatly had our fair share of 'unknown errors' we run an eleven machine mill department, all haas machines ranging from 1997 model vf-1's vf-2ss vf-3 with rotary and our newest is an MDC 500,...

our shop only ever deals with 6061 aluminum and most of our programs have run enough times (or high enough quantities) that most errors end up coming from dull tooling deciding to pop or...well the...

at our shop the longest cycle time we run barely reaches the 15 minute mark with most runs only in the 2-6 minute range, it pretty much became the unwritten rule that if you have time between loads...