I just wanted to relief my chest by saying what happened to me this morning , i cant stop blaming myself , we have 0.5 tip for led measurment i was creating an ittertaive program and had lot of parts to finish before leaving , so after running the code and hititng all the points , it comes the step where the cmm wante to verify each id , i validated the first hit then tried to move close to the next one but "manually" to "rush out" before validating (beacuse travel speed was slow) the joystick was at full speed and tried to approach the next hit point ,but boom i accelarted right into the part and tip broke , i wash shocked , its the only available , i still havent report this yet because its weekend , im having the worst day now ,
im that kinda of person who takes work so seriously that it affects my own mood if something went bad ,
i even think of purchasing it , can i order it as an individual ?
Last week I broke the same tip: I manually loaded it into our tip changing rack but evidently didn't seat it correctly. When the tip change operation executed for me to do my calibration of the tip it didn't seat on the probe head and fell to the table
I understand the feeling. The first tip i broke i was horrified! It was a saturday and it was the first time i'd ever been in control of a CMM by myself!
Ultimately, don't sweat it. These things happen. Since then i can't count the amount of tips i've broken on two hands. These things happen and as long as you learn from the mistake, you'll be ok.
We keep 6-8 of all sizes in stock. Operators used to do 1000K on average a month in damage to CMM probes and modules before I locked everything down in operator mode a few years ago. I loose 0.0 seconds of sleep over anything.......
Sleeping like a guilt free infant.....I had to go back and think about probes..I am going to say I have broke 5-7 in 15 years ? No wrecked modules or heads... Not to bad.
I've broken styli and trashed probe modules but I have never yet knocked a probe head off the quill like some others have (I won't mention those SENIOR members that have fessed up to it). We had a young man here (long before I hired in) that hit the probe head so hard it broke the mounting quill and the head was hanging by the wire harness. He is still here and running the CMMs and we firmly believe it was the previous programmer's fault for poor setup instructions to the part