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Did you ever notice that if a part is good the machinist is a great machinist, but if the part is OT then your ability to accurately measure it comes into question? "It was fine on the machine. No way it's out like you say." Uh huh. 😕

And some machinists can be very offended if you reject their part. It's like telling them that their baby is ugly. They get all worked up like you're attacking them personally. "I've been making this part for 5 years and it's never been rejected!" Uh huh 😕

And one of my favorites. "Ooooh. That's just a setup part." Uh huh 🤣
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Exactly, We had some parts with questionable results so they sent them off to be measured with "our" program. Great they were good.. I inherit the next run and they are way out. "impossible they were good last time" . I pulled the reports from previous run and 3 parts had a true position on 8 holes ALL had 0.0000 inch deviation. hmm they were really good..
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I've been proven right way more than wrong but, just like Forrest Gump said, "Sh*t" happens.
The key is having a lot of experience in all kinds of measuring methods and machining, most of all knowing how to double check stuff manually or functionally.
My crown achievement was proving a very large company who is considered the best in the industry wrong, in the UK.
It took about 6 weeks for them to receive the parts back and confirm my point but, I was confident, even though I seriously did lose a little sleep a few nights as I had little support on my end.
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