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Hit 10,000 parts on my old Haas TM-1 last Tuesday and the counter number kinda weirded me out
I run a small shop in Bakersfield and that machine has been here since before I bought the place, so I never really watched the cycle counter. Last Tuesday it rolled over to 10,000 parts on a little aluminum bracket job I've been running off and on for 3 years, and I just sat there staring at it for a minute. Half of those were probably scrapped in the first year while I was still learning feeds and speeds, so who knows what the real number is. Does anyone else track part count on their machines or am I the only one who finds this stuff interesting?
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the_mary2d ago
That "sat there staring at it for a minute" part is real, I caught myself doing the same thing when my old mill hit a round number. I read somewhere that most of those counters just keep going till the battery dies or someone resets them, so yours might have rolled over before and you'd never know. We tend to treat machine hours and part counts like some kind of scoreboard, but the only number that ever mattered was whether the check cleared.
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