Thread: What hope do we have?

Kev interesting you working on P76 had two mates worked here at Leyland Sydney one went on to the Leyland national sales side.[/QUOTE]


I didnt actually work on the vehicles at Leyland ,but worked in a tool room that had contracted to make some of the tooling .
I can't remember all of the tooling that we made ,there were other contracts going on as well .
I do remember working on the bonnet forming die ,door panel dies and a heap of other smaller stamping press dies for smaller parts .

I spent months standing in one place every day on a spotting press , grinding ,and scraping and stoning the high spots on the machined die surfaces to get a perfect surface for forming the panels.The only thing that saved my legs was the 6 kilometre pushbike ride to work and back every day .
My feet and legs ached no end ,no rubber matting only wooden duck boards to stand on.
I reckon the pushie saved me from varicose veins . OH&S wasn't as prevalent then ,it was still a factor but not like it is today .
If you got an injury , you were up for a lecture from the tool room manager and an explanation of how and why .
No glory in tool room work , glad I finally saw the light and got out of it ,some of the blokes I worked with were relics ,same job day in day out for 40 odd years .
I decided to travel around and try other avenues in the metal work /engineering business .

Kev.

Originally Posted by Woodlee

This pretty much the same as ours at work ,definitely not a converted turret machine.
KONDIA - Catálogo A15
Our chip conveyor is different to this one .The one on this web page is probably a later model .But it looks identical.
Not sure if it talks but the operator does a lot of swearing and cursing when it dies part way through a job .


Kev

ahh OK I was expecting it to be one of those turret mills that are CNC conversions...

conversational code is G-code - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia "Some CNC machines use "conversational" programming, which is a wizard-like programming mode that either hides G-code or completely bypasses the use of G-code."

Another reason for machining from billet is if you want to use an alloy that isn't castable. Something you wouldnt do on a toyota corolla, but you might on bugatti veyron.
Stuart