08-24-2018, 04:20 PM
(08-24-2018, 03:21 PM)ijmorlan Wrote:(08-24-2018, 11:51 AM)Canard Wrote: The tolerances specified on the engineering drawings determine if it is a problem or not.
The story of my life:
Assembler: “Something isn’t working on the machine you designed.”
Me: :: measures critical part :: “These locating pins are out of tolerance.”
A: “Oh yeah, we saw that when they got machined, but thought they looked good enough.”
Sigh.....
We’re talking about sidewalks. It’s not at all unreasonable to take a look and decide it’s OK. There is no other piece with which it needs to interact precisely — shoes and tires are made of flexible materials for a reason.
Besides, it looks worse with a few random panels replaced. They should at least also fix the actual problems while they’re fixing the technical deviations.
The most annoying thing about it is they leave the panel off the sidewalk for weeks before replacing it.
I imagine they're different crews, but in many cases the added inconvenience is worse than the error, never mind the wasted cost.