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>At 10:51 AM 1/15/2000 -0700, you wrote:
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>>At Raytheon, we had a lathe operator drop dead while turning down a piece
>>of Teflon.
>>
>
>To suggest that operating a lathe promotes death is preposterous.
? Agreed. According to the Ventura County Coroner's Medical Examiner,
he died from breathing some flourine compound. According to other
machine shop employees, he had been turning down a large number of Teflon
rods at high speed to save time.
/ Cutting tools run fairly hot when cutting at high speeds. In college,
during my Machine Shop final exam, to save precious time, I made a long,
deep high-speed cut that caused the cutting tool to incandesce for
several minutes. This raised a few eyebrows. The instructor came over
and explained to the class that such cuts were alright provided that a
shallow cut followed to smooth things up. . In the end it payed off
because I got under the time limit.
cheers
- Rich..., 805.386.3734, www.vcnet.com/measures.
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