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Good evening everyone. Have a dumb question. What is “tooling”? Just wasn’t sure what the definition was….any assistance would be appreciated. Thanks……Nanuk
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Back in my manufacturing days, it seemed to mean all the special stuff I built to make it quicker to make a lot of copies of some item -- like the gadget that would strap onto an OEM case and had in it the drill bushings for drilling all the mounting holes for the stuff we built into that case. "Tooling up" was the phase of a project in which the special tools for it were designed, built, and tested.
In construction, it would probably include all the more general purpose tools you accumulate to be able to work efficiently on certain kinds of projects. For instance, all the stuff you would buy or use from your existing inventory if you decided to go into the business of building custom windows.
-- J.S.
*In my world it means the stuff that cuts; router bits, saw blades, shaper and moulder cutters etc.
*Adrian's in my camp. I add a tooling charge for setup and special cutters or for general wear on cutters and bits whenever I'm doing custom moldings and millwork.
*Tooling has several different uses. One, is the acquiring of tools necessary for the job. Two, to describe the actual work performed. Such as, be careful not to 'overtool', as when finishing a new pour. Three, the process of mfg and sharpening an edge. Cutter heads on lathes and such are referred to as tools, and to make one or sharpen it is called tooling. That last one I heard for the first time from an old saw sharpener a long time ago and not so long ago in the machine shop.
*Nanuk, I've always used this term to describe the work done to finish the joints on a brick wall. After laying the bricks we 'tool' the joints with a concave jointer, a grapevine jointer, a beading tool or a variety of other tools. We also call this 'jointing' the bricks.
*Auto manufactureres have to re-tool when they change designs. My crew 'tools up' before they climb onto the staging.
*'Round here, it mostly means driving--more specifically, driving around aimlessly or cruising. *grin*
*And I thought that tooling around was for wife swappers and such
*Wife swapping? What do you call it if ya wanna just get rid of a wife? Re-tooling?
*larry the lurker... why is it always about sex with you?
*'Tooling' is also a decorative treatment on stonework consisting of machined striations, usually vertical. I just added it to a design in limestone.Jeff
*Mike....what's with you always disrupting threads?Back on topic...tooling...Seems you all named as most of the possibilities....I would like to ask what the question was in reference to nanuk?near the stream,aj (and sometimes when in my nano nuke mode...nanuke...hey...and what's with the name?!@)
*nanuk...just clicked on your name...ahhha!...Can answer my own question now...You are looking at lathes....tooling as described above...to do with lathes...are the bits of tool steel that you clamp in the tool holders on your lathe to do the cutting on your workpiece to end up with say a wooden pen....Big shops may have one guy that is the tool expert making special tools for a particular set up...Then there are guys that are specialists just at setting up a lathe to do a job....Then the machine operator does the actual work...Somebody else here with way more machine shot time...jump in and help me...I'm drowning here!near the deep end of the stream when it comes to machine shops,aj (the originol nanuke)And welcome to the board if we have not met yet nanuk.
*aj....I'll give you the condensed version, and thank you for welcoming me. I have a degree in genetics, but pound nails instead 'cause I hate big cities where genetics work thrives and I love wood. Nanuk is my dog's name, who keeps me warm after huddling over a compressor that won't run during the weather extremes of northern Minnesota. Now, here's where the "tooling" question came from. My girlfriend is an Industrial Tech. major in college, and has a test today in her Forming and Machining class. I gave her my best description of tooling, but just wanted to confirm it. Her book seems to say nothing about it, oddly enough. I've been a FHB and FWW junky for about ten years, but I'm new to these forums. I'm hooked for life. I love this. Thanks again for the welcome, and I'm sure you'll see me around more than you care too. Have a good one.
*From the 50K' view there are assets and tooling: assets are the machines, which are theoretically capitalized and depreciated while tooling refers to consumables, like cutters, bits, blades, and holders which are theoretically expensed. I say "theoretically" because the various tax laws don't always coincide with what you're taught in industrial engineering.
*In the context of Forming and Machining, 'tooling' is a machined decorative/useful treatment on a metal surface such as 'knurling' for grip control.Jeff
*Jeff: I thought no one was EVER going to get to that definition.. Tooling is the decoration, in addition may also be functional, on metal surfaces.Remember one high school job in the machine shop where I ran a machine that put all those pretty marks on the metal.
*or maybe "detooling".
*i might be with john in a way, we call tooling what you do with a wet finger to fresh caulking.
*As with masons tooling a mortar joint.
*On a bid the tooling line is all that Misc. stuffI need to complete the job
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Good evening everyone. Have a dumb question. What is "tooling"? Just wasn't sure what the definition was....any assistance would be appreciated. Thanks......Nanuk