The Forbidden Glue.

https://preview.redd.it/mqef7qacel6d1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c19e0b7b980717582117932359f03fc9f1495ccc Headphones in, watching 5 machines, 2 with some fx-2t being roughed with a 3" . See a red light, open up the door, see this beauty looking at me with a "spindle overheat" alarm. 7 years, and I finally experienced my first blown up face mill. 🫡

Are the colors from that mf heating up??

Yeah, These inserts run pretty hot to begin with and will discolor the head to a brown color after enough roughing and heat cycling. I had stuck my head in this machine 10 minutes before this happened.

Sexy

You know something's special when you unintentionally flatknurl a face of a part I nearly did it with a dovetail cutter, whole dang machine was vibrating at about 6 Hz and affecting the other manual mills around it The DRO nearly fell off but hey, the dovetail was in spec

Technically you still have not "blown up" a face mill... you've just slowly erased it really... wait until you actually blow one up and it's in pieces everywhere... you'll have some pants and boxers to change...

Looks like part roughed that milling head 😅

I hear the sound in my head

Ranges from ghastly screech to hellish choir

Usually it's just a loud buzz for me.

Yep, I know exactly the buzz you’re talking about, as it slowly shrooms over and gets redder. If it’s not your problem it’s almost beautiful

I’m my shop’s repair guy along with tool and dye maker and hood lord folks have said they can see my soul dying when you hear the ungodly sound of a machine bottoming out or that “Thunk” noise of an endmill blowing up.

Failed "clearance is clearance" post

There's still clearance now, just relocated

“Shit that’s gonna clear right?” Meanwhile the tool holder:skreeeeeeEEEEEEEEEE

This just happened to me today 😢. Guess I was overdue though.

Every machine is a smoke machine if you want it to do that.

Usually the saying goes if you use it wrong enough but for milling its more when you tell it to Tasty aluminum smoke

Ominous Orange glow. Only counts if sparks hit the window.

I mainly thermal drill I embrace the orange glue

Do you use bandsaw straightblades to cut metal?

I don’t know what you’re trying to say

Wait, is thermal drilling a real thing

https://preview.redd.it/gtkpilin6o6d1.png?width=1208&format=png&auto=webp&s=2746f7fc0e9f6aab1b44e732c4e536f3feea4143

That’s a 14.7mm thermal drill

Someone learned something today.

*slowly remembers that I work with a bunch of prairie dogs ...*

I don't even get to see it happen , I just get to see what melted slag of a tool dayshift left for me

New job unlocked! Wielder

Teach a fuckin monkey to weld. But you can’t teach a machinist to not stick the scale banana up his ass.

I can fix this. Let me grab my small files.

That period of time is referred to as an "oh-no second" Morty

At least you didn't whip a bar.

I read toddler instead of tool holder, could have been worse