I agree with Jon, the guy is so optimistic that it is ridiculous. Especially since he has not even started retrofitting the controls.
i On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Jon Elson <el...@pico-systems.com> wrote: > dave wrote: >> http://toltmachineworks.com/default.aspx >> >> should get you close. It has a Carnation address. >> > He's NUTS!!!! He is offering the machines for customer jobs at the end > of October! > The newspaper article indicates the machines are not even on the FLOOR, yet! > Unless he has a commercial retrofitter come in with a team of 5 guys per > machine, > there is NO WAY he can have these machines just plain moving in that > time - barely > a month! And, in the aerospace biz, he needs to have the accuracy > tested with the > appropriate interferometric gear, and then do any fixups. Then, he > probably needs > to run some test parts and evaluate for a while to find out what works > and what doesn't. > I would think that before he puts $50,000 of aluminum or $500,000 of > Titanium > on the big mill and starts cutting, he needs to be sure he will make a > part within > the customer's tolerances. > > The idea of having machines that have been stored more than a decade in > a collapsing > potato shed and then offering them for commercial aerospace work in less > than a month > is way beyond laughable! There will be so much wrong with these > machines that will > need careful study and correction, the gathering of often odd and hard > to obtain repair > parts, etc. > > Jon > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances > and start using them to simplify application deployment and > accelerate your shift to cloud computing. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
