Thread: Milling with help

Come on Al lets have it hey

"Minches" or metric inches and instead of yelling I have been using a simple bionary sign language

there is an easier way wpf

i just use my fingers to signal inches, and tell my tailor to use metric equivalent.

i have seen allans gizmo, its good, but far to complicated than is needed. IMO

I recently did some off-sidering for a local guy and we initially had a lot of trouble with this. He had arthritis and I couldn't tell what fingers he was trying to hold up. We finally hung a small magnetic whiteboard off the cross bar on his end. He wrote all the regular sizes he was cutting on it and just stuck one of those fridge magnet things on the one he wanted me to set it to. Only had one issue after that where he forgot to move the marker and ended up with a tapered board, but it made the cutting go a lot faster, as I didn't have to keep asking him what he wanted. He used the back of it to keep a list of what sizes and quantities he had orders for.

lets see if this works....
The main system - seen from the tailors point of view



Close up of the number display



A close look at 'the brains' lol



It's hard wired into the mill's electric system, so it only draws power when the mill is running and switches off when not running - sensible eh? and the keypad is weatherproof if it rains during a days work then no probs. From the keypad I can put in any amount I want and there is no confusion for the tailer they can see right from the other end of the mill even when I have the 8m tracks on 8)

That looks great! Very professional.

I rarely work without an offsider since it pretty much doubles my production in a day. Plus there are always those couple of big beams customers want that are just too hard on your back to move on your own.

Good luck with it, hope you don't get too many odd customers who want their timber in imperial measurements...

Very Slick . . . .. but. . . . how do you know you have punched in the right numbers?

imperial is fine ya just tell the help we working inches for this chap and I input inches.

Right number - well if I stuff that up then I got no-one to blame

Looks good Al. I was wondering what you were going to come up with. I was half expecting you to be walking around talking into your wristwatch like a spook.

Regards
Paul

Originally Posted by BobL

Very Slick . . . .. but. . . . how do you know you have punched in the right numbers?

This is what I was thinking too. Maybe Sigidi could hook up two screens off one keypad or make it swivel

Good thing is I have to walk past it to get to the winch so I can take a look at it on my way to the winch, I'f I've stuffed up then I can change it

I see a ghost in the machine
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Pete