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Hot take: a guy on night shift told me to stop checking my first part with calipers and I can't decide if he's right
So I was grabbing coffee at the gas station off I-80 in Joliet around 5am on my way home and ran into this older guy who's been running a Haas VF-2 for like 20 years. He asked how the night went and I mentioned I had a fussy 4140 job with a plus minus .002 tolerance on the OD and I was miking every part because the first few drifted on me. He said something that stuck with me. He goes, if you have to check every part, your setup is already telling you it's not trustworthy, so fix the setup instead of babysitting the part. That hit different for me because I've been treating inspection like a safety net, but maybe I'm just masking a weak workholding or a worn insert. On the other hand, some jobs are just nasty and you can't trust anything but the mic, especially with material that moves after it cools. I'm honestly torn. Do you guys chase the setup until you trust it and then spot check, or do you keep measuring and just accept the time hit? Curious what the old heads here would say.
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