Re: What's The Biggest Part You Seen Come Loose?


<clutch@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:130o5hefaqtsna9@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
BottleBob <bottlbob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Crash surveys are always interesting to me, so let me ask: What is the
biggest, fastest, or most extreme, etc., part that has come loose from
your setup - or that has come loose from someone else's setup. <g>

It wasn't the biggest but when something happens to break a chunk of
master jaw off, you get a lot more respect for centrifigal force. It
only got 75% based on the cut outline though the top of the sheet
metal.

Wes
800 pound + cast flanged cylinder head with a 16" diameter shot pin (piston rod) for a draw bridge. Hit a void in full cut and yanked it out of the chuck jaws of a 20' LeBlonde lathe. Followed the operator down the stairs of his work station waking the entire plant of over 200 people. Can't remember the exact weight but do remember it happened the same week someone killed our president.

Ex manufacturing engineer

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  • Re: Whats The Biggest Part You Seen Come Loose?
    ... biggest, fastest, or most extreme, etc., part that has come loose from ... your setup - or that has come loose from someone else's setup. ...
    (alt.machines.cnc)