My Intro

On Sat, 08 May 1999 09:01:57, you wrote:

From: John Stevenson, john@...

Hello Everybody,

Glad to see all the activity on the new list.

My info:
I have a very small engineering company with just two people.
We mainly do repair and emergency work but also build special purpose machines
or parts like ink mixers, pencil making machines and parts for laser cutters.
Our work is very varied and a lot is done out of hours hence we need a good
range of machines.
We have 5 lathes from a small Myford ML7 to a large TOS 12 x 84" centre lathe.
Millers are covered by 4 machines from a mill drill to a CNC Beaver 10 x 54 that
has been retrofitted with an Ahha unit from the old Posidata
We also have a 5" slotter, 2 bandsaws, 2 migs,200 and 350 Amp. A tig welder
ac/dc, 250 Amp stick welder and a plasma cutter.
We are currently looking to buy a Guildermeister CNC lathe with fanuc control.
This is currently in a college and although being about 15 years old has hardly
done any work.
To keep the thread of this list the CAD side is handled by Fastcad with who I
have been with for about 10 years. I also have a copy of Turbocad [ urr ] and
Intellicad, neither hardly get any use.
Cam is taken care of by an English program called Dolphin and Bobcad V16.1 and
17.These two cover all the work that I have to do on the Beaver as it's all 2
1/2D.
I also use a simulation program called Discriminator, and an engraving program
called Millwrite. Both these are worth every penny.
No EDM and only the mill/ drill has a DRO, this is an old Heidenhain bought when
a local company had to change to keep up with ISO 9000.
Hope this fits in OK, I realise that it's aimed at the smaller guy but that's
how I started.

Regards,
John Stevenson
Nottingham, England