"He who marches out of step hears another drum." ~ Ken Kesey
I thought if I put it in quotes it wouldn't replace it but now my post looks even more ridiculous. Fork. fork. fOrK
In the vein of the e-stop causing things to break and in the interest of fairness, I think it should be pointed out there was only one silly person claiming the part breaking was intentional and by design. Everyone else who commented said nope, that's not supposed to happen, it shouldn't have happened, and we're going to investigate, find out why it happened, and prevent it from happening in the future.Not that I would ever come near that brand, nor sticking up for said brand, just trying to keep things fair.
Bottom line, for me, some machines can NOT take an e-stop hit, some can.If it is an emergency, use it, otherwise DON'TTerry
Actually he has.......privately.
Hell even their own customers chose a Mustang over it when given the choice after the fact. Goes to show you the consumer confidence in the unmentioned is crap.
I'm pretty sure (not 100% so don't take this to the bank) that the replacement part came in recently and it also failed. I wonder if they attemped the e-stop again and the same thing happened and if that is the case, they should have known they were going to try that so I really hope they sent more than one replacement capture fork, but I don't think that is the case. I was told they were having a machine shop in town fabricate the part. I actually thought that while they waited on the part from Poland that they could have someone fabricate one to see if it would work. Having a machine shop fab one would have been the first thing I did when the problem came up, but I'm just a screen printer and don't really know if that part could be made as well at a local machine shop as it needs to be.
Alan: It’s certainly possible that a replacement capture fork could have been made locally in Houston, but doing it right is a fairly involved process. This part as a number of wear surfaces that include where the cam follower runs, and also the sliding surfaces of the fork itself. In order to ensure accurate location and long service life these wear surfaces need to be heat treated and then precision finished. It would have seemed to me that dropping a replacement part into a FedEx international pack from Poland would have been the quickest way to get the part onsite.
In any case I’m sure that Robert and his team know what they’re doing, and that they will get the press up and running in short time. I really think that Brian (Binkspot) is one of the best assets that the manufacturer has on their side to get the press repaired, and as long as there’s nothing fundamentally wrong with the design, engineering, or manufacture of the press, he’ll get it right. At least we’ve moved on from the nonsense that the capture fork was a deliberately designed sacrificial part, intended to break whenever the machines E-Stop was engaged.
One area where asdf and the customer both got lucky is that Scarborough Specialties has a shop full of M&R equipment that runs every day, so their production is not being totally impacted by the faults with the new machine. I’d expect that the stress level would be much higher at a shop where the new press was their only source of production.