Backward Steps?

I went to post a letter today and the letter box was sealed off. One of the locals in Market Bosworth told me that there was no longer a post box in Market Bosworth. Realising that she was quite posh I resisted the profanities and just said “oh dear”.

It just made me think about progress and that we have this impression everything can keep getting better and economies have to keep growing.

When you get to my age (96) you realise it just aint true (no I’m not going to go on about when I was a lad)

Anyway when I was a lad we didn’t have all these fancy CAD/CAM systems, we had to find quick efficient ways to program (with your bare hands and some paper tape).

Multi repetitive cycles like G71 and G70 made programming so quick and easy.

When you rough and finish turn your CAD/CAM system will probably pump out enough CNC code to bring down the GCHQ website.

You might say “so what my machine has a huge memory”. That is until you want to edit the number of cuts. It’s back in the office, edit, edit, pump out code and back to prove out.

The CAD CAM salesman will tell you not to edit on the machine, sorry mate I live in the real world where that is almost impossible.

So until we get there, compromise, use a G71 and a G70 then it’s dead easy to edit on the machine. Even better do some work on the Post and get the CAD/CAM to pump out G71 and G70 for you.

Watch my latest video on how to use G71 and G70.