Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] safety rule

andrewyslee wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>This list must have hundreds of 1000's hours with automated (CNC)
>machines so would be a good place to ask this question (poll).
>
>One of the safety rule says that one should never leave an automated
>machine running unattended. But this would negate one of the greatest
>advantage of automated machines, and I am sure that (unattended) is
>often done.
>
>Just like to find out how list members had fare when they did (leave
>cnc machine running unattended).
>
>

I don't, in general, because I'm always brushing chips or picking balls
of plastic
"string" off drill bits, etc. I suppose if I had jobs that spent hours
carving inside
parts with small tools that I might walk away, but generally nothing
takes more than
a couple minutes, then I have to change the part, or the tool.

Jon