Wish me Luck!!!

[gabepari]

Here goes nothing... Starting on a job in the morning cutting up $88,000 of customer supplied acrylic panels. At almost $500 per sheet, I don't really have much room to screw up.

I also received some pretty cool material today, 3 sheets of acrylic for $2750. Yikes!!!

I'm in the wrong business


Gabe "I can make anything but money" Pari
www.socalteardrops.com (http://www.socalteardrops.com)

[coach]

Good luck Gabe. I worry about cutting $50.00 plywood........
Are you cutting 1/2" acrylic? I just priced 4x8 sheets of 1/2" clear for close to $500.00
David

[joe]

Gabe,

You amaze me!

Sure like your teardrops. Good product.

Joe

[jerry_stanek]

I know how you feel I just cut a job on a 4 X 8 sheet of .75 clear acrylic. Just don't cut to fast and deep I had to pocket around letters and the customers logo down to .062. There was a lot of material to remove and about 5 hrs on each unit.

[gabepari]

They are only 1/4" thick, but have gone through 3 other vendors for coatings and lamination before me. So getting extras is near impossible, for cost and time frame.

The 3 sheets are a decorative Envel product, very beautiful, buy super pricey. I still can't the customer to verify grain direction, and I refuse to hack up almost $3K worth of material without being sure


Off and running,

Gabe

[magic]

Remember the rule...

Measure twice, screw up once.

Hay, I never got the parts list?

[gabepari]

magic, RE: the parts list for the gear boxes. I think you and your "magic" personality made it disappear when you were here
I can't find it on any of my PC's at the shop.

Thanks for reminding me though, I will recreate it, not too hard just have to find 10 minutes.

Gabe

[curtiss]

I would suppose in this case the E-STOP button becomes the "E-Oh ship" button.

[davidp]

Gabe,

Think positive and it will be fine.

Performance anxiety happens to all of us at one stage or another in our life, usually you just don't get another date so I couldn't be any worse that that little girl in fith grade and your first kiss,

Maybe it could. :-0


David

[gabepari]

So, everything went good.... On my end


The customer was suppose to drill some holes in the field, in their $1000 a sheet plastic, after I cut the parts.

Well............. They drilled all of them in the wrong place. OOOoooppsss!!!!!

At least it wasn't my fault




Gabe

[thewoodcrafter]

Well, you dodged that bullet.

[curtiss]

Was there a reason they did not want you to cut the holes ?? Can they salvage the material or is it now trash ??

I hope you have been paid in full...


cj

[beacon14]

Do you get to re-cut the job for them?

[gabepari]

They didn't know where they wanted to holes yet, and the job was a rush. Most everything this company does, they have just enough time to do it twice, but never enough time to do it RIGHT!


They are working with the company that manufactures the sheets (special artistic resin process, highly secretive) to see if there is a way to patch the holes. If not, then I'll be cutting new panels, WITH the holes this time.

Such is the world of big, high dollar companies...

Gabe

[ky_trikes]

"Most everything this company does, they have just enough time to do it twice, but never enough time to do it RIGHT!"

All of us who have "outside" (non-Shopbot) full time jobs work for this company I think!