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Hexagon is a huge conglomerate that owns reputable brands like Brown and Sharpe, Etalon, and Tesa.

I voted Mitutoyo as that's what we have most of but swiss premium really does stand out. Etalon is top top end but they make only a select variety of measurement tools. And unfortunately Brown&Sharpe is slowly falling towards the Starret line (lower quality, value focused items).

If you want to know more about laser measuring systems... Check out Laser Interferometry. Optics industry uses laser measuring systems like a Zygo interferometer all the time.

There was a machine called the Large Optical Diamond Turning Machine (LODTM) that was once considered the most accurate lathe in the world. It used laser interferometry to determine exact positioning down to angstroms. Kind of how modern machines can use scales to extract true position in a closed loop system.

Funny, You reminded me that a good majority of commercial diamond turning machines are based in the US. Namely Moore Nanotech and Precitech.

I'm guessing some kind of hard wax? I haven't heard about wax workholding.

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We're all affected by quality of some sort even if it isn't a manufactured good. Quality of education, quality of health, quality of community, etc. I'm not the mod so I can't say, but I'll still take the liberty to welcome you here.

And I appreciate the suggestion. So I looked it up on youtube and I stumbled upon an interesting take on the movie by the wood gear guy. Mathias Wandel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yuqdr_1iRg

I'm not a big fan of movies, especially ones that attempt to depict historical events, precisely because of the points that Mathias brings up. Kind of how Netflix's Formula 1 movie fabricated footage to present a story rather than a telling of events. And honestly, I don't have enough knowledge to fact-check what is being presented as a story element vs factual representation.

But still, I think there is a lesson to be learned from Blackberry's failure so I'll check out the movie.

Thanks! And welcome to the Machinist community at ~~Lemmy.~~ Federation (?)

4 video cameras. I shall trade for all the above with the only source of amateur pornography.

good judgement

What I find difficult to deal with is determining where the threshold is with work fixturing and clamping pressure without going past the limits. I feel like it's entirely based on job experience rather than theory like SFM or chipload.

I could just incrementally take deeper and deeper cuts but the stopping point for me is the fear of tossing the work. Who knows if I left another .060" of potential DOC because I was afraid. I suppose there is an accepted range of 'general' roughing parameters that conventional workholding like the .060" step on self-centering vises or a manual 3 jaw vice holding on to a thin section can handle... Although if I'm really cranking on the handles, the tool is more likely to break first than the part flying out.

There's just something that is unsettling with me when the answer seems to be...Just rough more stuff and you'll get better at it. Not arguing against it but it's because I'm one of those theory 1st guys.

Wow, post is getting a lot of traction. Wish some of the actual actionable ones had the same level of activity

Open new files in tabs doesn't seem to work in the windows version. Bummed out about that.

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=427953

Yikes! Curious to read about the investigation conclusions.

Been waiting for this one, subbed.

Is it because of the Asian market panic buying after the Fukushima water release?