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Disgruntled Bovine
Jul 5, 2010

That's incredible. We used to make parts similar to (but less complex than) that where I work but we did it on a single spindle machine and it took like 8 setups.

I don't envy you trying to learn how to program that thing. It amuses me that your company would buy a machine like that but balks at the software cost. Typical.

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Disgruntled Bovine
Jul 5, 2010

I live semi-near this monstrosity. If you look close you can see a couple guys standing in front of it.



It's one of two 50,000 ton presses in the US used for forging major aircraft components. Here's an interesting article on them.

https://boingboing.net/2012/02/13/machines.html

Our contracted internal auditor has been there and saw it in person, I'm very jealous of him.

Also the Mesta catalog linked near the end of the article (here: http://archive.org/details/plantproductofme00mest/page/n5/mode/2up?view=theater) is a definite pro-click.

Disgruntled Bovine fucked around with this message at 04:26 on Jun 18, 2021

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