The best part of owning your own machining business.....

[lucky]

Or 8/32"... but what you really have to watch out for is the 16/64"... that shit is hard to do...
well we should send him back the part with metric demsions

[OutCole'd]

My favorite is when a customer picks something out of a book that is special order, it shows a pic with all the dimensions. You order it in for them, they pick it up and over month later they want to return it because it is 50% too small for what they want.
You try to do your best in the name of "Customer Service" & take it back even though it's been over 30 days and it was special ordered, but you take it back anyways. Then the customer gets all bent because you charge them 25% for a restock charge....

[MACMAN]

How about a #00-90 thread .625" long on 1/16 dia. hardened steel......
"What do you mean you can't do it??!!!"

[slotracer]

Signing change order tickets and getting paid is 2 different things. Just finished a department store in Santa Ana and fighting over the $ now after the store has been open for 2 months.
we are running appox $12,000.00 per day with our men. they say they will pay within 10 days of billing. 1st billing will be the 25th. they know we liened the project for a mill$. its state and city money so we will see. no $$$$$ = no men and a big lien.

[DelawareDave]

I drew a similar job. The customer wanted columns on the roof 20' high. Then he realizes the beam that was supposed to be under the roof, is above it. So we cut 1 foot off the bottom of the columns. Then he figures out they are 4 feet too tall. So we cut off 4 feet. Then he says "Ah S**T!" You need to add 1 foot back on them, cause now they are too short! That was a great job!