Thursday
Well, let's see if today can be a better day than yesterday. Probably lucky to still have a job right now.
What happened?Originally Posted by Teh One Who Knocks
Well, let's see if today can be a better day than yesterday. Probably lucky to still have a job right now.
A rush job for our biggest customer came in last Thursday (the 12th) and they needed it to be finished by yesterday/today at the latest. This is our biggest customer. Well, for some reason this particular customer uses a code for what kind of material they specify on their drawings. So, instead of specifying, for example, aluminum plate for a two inch thick part, they spec it out as ALP2 on the drawing. And the codes get more complicated depending on the material (plate, tubing, flat bar and steel, aluminum, alloy, plastics, etc). I was in a hurry when I launched the job and ordered the material. I though I saw ALP2 but in reality it said DLP2 which is Delrin which is a type of plastic, NOT aluminum. And of course no one caught the mistake until yesterday, when the job was almost fully completed, a total of 70 fairly complicated parts. So, we wasted the money on all that aluminum and all the time into making the parts. PLUS we will be late on the order now.What happened?
Ouch
Damn, and I thought I had a bad week. You win.
Goofy (09-20-2019), Teh One Who Knocks (09-20-2019)
70 of these.....all fucking scrap and all my fault.
Goofy (09-20-2019)
They sure are nice though. What were they for?
Some kind of automation machinery, couldn't tell wou what it does though. We even tried to see if the customer would take them made from aluminum. Nope, has to be acetal plastic.
Sell them on Ebay marketed as fancy paperweights. Probably at least get more than scrap price.
Yeah, scrap price is ridiculous. I think those bars of aluminum were around $3/lb when I ordered them and scrap value for aluminum is somewhere around $.15/lb
Yea, it's horrible how much all metals have tanked. Aluminum and copper used to be high enough to make a decent buck off scrap.
Scrap steel is even worse. We have one of those HUGE scrap bins (basically a roll-off) in the back for steel scrap. When it's full, and it can easily hold a couple of tons I would imagine, the shop gets a check for between $.50 and $1 after they haul it away.
Yeah, suddenly my week doesnt seem too bad after all
Sorry Lance, sounds like a very shitty situation
Teh One Who Knocks (09-20-2019)
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