Originally Posted by
miljnor
OMG. I really wish all the fear mongers would stop with the warnings!
Anyone who doesn't know that you can get in trouble by bypassing a saftey mechanism is either too stupid to live or well, too stupid to live.
So quit stating the obvious and keep your fear of the "man" to yourself. God help me from those wishing to save me from myself. Because Obviously I can't do it..and we need to litigate everything into uslessness.
rant over....
I've always wanted to get one of these old machines and refurbish it so I will be watching all your progress.
How much did you get the machine for?
There are very few if any people here who would disagree with the opinion that all of the safety systems are far more trouble than they are worth.
But, that being said there is a difference between small shops who are not under continuous scrutiny from the business police and the big shops that deal with dozens of operators who can be shall we say "opportunistic."
I do not know of one shop that has removed switches and disabled systems, "IF" they can disable them with a change in setting 51. That makes it an operator decision. Taking the switches and such off would be considered a shop decision.
The problem comes from large shops that have many employees. You always have the problem of employees that will game the system or are just incompetent. For those, I would not disable anything.
For me, I make my own decisions and take my own chances. I have had jobs tht ran 12 parts at once and only had a cycle time of 30 seconds. I will disable the doors for that!
If you have an older machine that can use the 51 Off setting, I would put the system in order, then disable.
P.S.: I don't think I would buy a new machine at this time----------You know why.
Mike
Two Haas VF-2's, Haas HA5C, Haas HRT-9, Hardinge CHNC 1, Bother HS-300 Wire EDM, BobCAD V23, BobCAD V28