A new guy at the shop in Toledo showed me a trick with a 0.001 shim

We were setting up a tricky job on an old VMC and I was fighting chatter on a thin wall. This quiet guy named Leo, who just started last month, saw me about to scrap the part. He grabbed a 0.001 brass shim from his box, slid it behind the part in the vise to add support, and the chatter just stopped. I've been doing this for 12 years and never thought of that. What's the best simple fix you've seen someone else use?

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ninaw8812d ago

My foreman used a rubber band to dampen a rattling coolant line once.

oscarthompson12d ago

That's the official factory fix... page 47.