Back in the day at the old shop in Akron, a crash taught me to always double-check the work offset.

I was running a big batch of 4140 steel parts on our old Haas VF-2, and I fat-fingered a G54 Z offset by .100. The tool plunged right into the vise jaw. I had to stop everything, pull the part, and spend like two hours fixing the setup and the jaw. Anyone else have a simple mistake that cost you a bunch of time?

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ivanl1824d ago

Ugh, I've done that exact thing.

emery60323d ago

What did you end up doing to fix it? I had the same problem last week and just shut everything down for a few minutes. After I restarted my computer, I went back and checked the settings one by one. It turned out I had clicked the wrong option in a menu earlier. Took me forever to find it.