This week I spent time on the floor asking questions about my part I'm creating and helping mentors with jobs.
Tuesday I was upstairs putting together a 3D printer and testing it out. I spent half the day putting it together and making sure it was working and after that I did a test print of a little boat and then I printed a puzzle.
Wednesday I was on the shop floor with a mentor working on machines, I worked on two machines and checked thicknesses of an important part we were running and I also loaded many little parts into our other machine and had lots more practice with pinstops.
Thursday I was on the shop floor again with a mentor working two machines. I ended up taking a part out of one of the machines, loosening it and wiggling it around to release the tension that the first few cuts caused to be sure it wouldn't warp and potentially scrap our part. On the other machine I measured a few spots on the part with a micrometer to make sure they were within our tolerence window, they weren't and we noticed that the tool was chattering/leaving weird marks on the part so I went and grabbed two new replacement tools and put them in new heimers in the collet style. Once I installed those back into the machine it ran just fine with no chattering. For the stringers we were running we took our finished one to the CMP room for them to do a first part check on it, they gave it back and said it was wrong but it wasn't so we went and talked to someone in the office and he talked o the CMP worker and then I loaded another part onto our fixture and started running it.
Friday I checked and made sure my CAD/CAM model was done then I went down to the shop floor and got some more hours in. I loaded and unloaded stringers and I took measurements of the sides to make sure they were in tolerance and they all were. I also tested the coolant level on the machine and it was 1.5 meaning really low in oil so we went and filled a tup with coolant and brought it back to the machine and refilled our machine.