Tech Question on Machine Shops: Tight Tolerances

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by a searcher from Massachusetts Institute of Technology - MIT Sloan School of Management
in New York, NY, USA

5yrs ago

Tech Question on Machine Shops: Tight Tolerances

How good is +/- 0.0002” as a tolerance level? Seems very precise to me. Thanks!

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reply by an intermediary 5yrs ago
from Naval Postgraduate School in Bellevue, WA, USA

Be careful. Typical measurement tools cannot measure to that level. For reference purposes a human hair is typically about 0.002”. Production CNC machine tools cannot machine parts to that your quoted tolerance. Further, the market for such parts would be limited.

reply by a searcher 3yrs ago
from Ivey Business School at Western University in Vancouver, BC, Canada

Agree with Marc. Anything half a thouredactedis pretty precise. An ability to machine tolerances of +/- tolerances ofredactedat scale would be a very precise capability. Once is one thing, the tricky part is holding those tolerances at scale time after time.