Well, he seems to have $$ to burn but doing a reality check with Stuart might be helpful. Apparently he has sunk 5 to 10 E 6 into it. Wonder what he is smoking?? ;-)
If the Snoqualamie pass isn't too nasty I'll probably go over for the open house in Nov. Should be interesting. Just qualifying that CMM should be an adventure in itself. Wilson Aerospace bought a CMM at Boeing auction; a 50 footer ... got it for $100K and spent a cool mil getting it set up and calibrated. They are now broke. Maybe the wire edm and electron-beam welder are ready to go. Who knows. Dave On Tue, 2010-09-28 at 12:32 -0500, Jon Elson 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
