Originally Posted by
orionstarman
. My problem was that I hit him with a $2000 list of things I think we needed and he freeked out. I'm sure I can get what I need it's just going to take time. The things I really need help with are like this:
this works no better than the way we were doing it before. Should I run it at even higher feed and speeds or go back to the old school way. I.
if youve removed the same amount of material as you have at slow speeds before the inserts wear out ,then i would say you are ahead , time is money!
02" chipload/ tooth sounds extreme for aluminum let alone d2 , that takes some serious force to push an insert that heavy , what kind of tooling and equipment are you running , must be huge stuff
your boss needs to understand that it takes money to make money , to request $2000 worth of tools is peanuts , the last company i worked at would push up to $50,000 / month in tooling and holders , and that was only the milling dept
its not too hard to justify buying proper tools for the job , its simple to calculate the difference in time it takes to run a solid carb, drill vs an hss drill etc. etc.
about the big fat raise , i'd say forget about that , it doesn t matter where you work you won t get a raise for saving the company money because more or less thats what we are hired to do
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