1-4-07
The Perfect Part!
Testimony from: John S. Lanphear-
Lawrence, MI. I had a appointment at a customer to try to prototype a
solution to assembling some plastic inserts into their plastic part.
God
had given me a simple concept to solve this problem, but my engineers, customer
and I were all a little skeptical so I told my customer that I would go to his
facility and put something together to prototype the concept. The morning
that I was to go down there I went into my machine shop to find some materials
that could possibly be made to crudely mock up this idea. I went back to
my raw materials area where I selected a black piece of Delrin plastic that I
could possibly use but needed some way to connect it to an arbor press to push
my customers plastic inserts into his part. I was praying for guidance
while I kept looking around my shop when I came across a parts bin full of scrap
machined parts from other jobs that just did not work out but were possibly able
to be used in the future for other jobs. As I started pawing through this
bin with at least a hundred parts in it, I came across a piece of angle bracket
that seemed like it would work but something told me to keep looking. I
kept digging through the parts as I talked with one of my employees when I
picked up a custom made bracket with a built in clamp that was made to clamp
onto a large 45mm (metric) diameter. The Holy Spirit just told me that
that was the part and I thought to myself, how cool would that be if that large
round clamp would fit onto the square arbor on my customer's arbor press!
I thought, "there is no chance of that"! I had one of my machinists attach
the piece of black Delrin plastic to it with a bolt and off to my customers I
went, hoping I could get it to work somehow. When I got down there the
customer and I both just about fell over when it fit perfectly onto his square
arbor on his press!!! Only God knew which part of hundreds in my shop
would fit their old arbor press and He lead me right to it! I of course
gave Him all the honor and glory! What an Awesome God we serve!!!
God
had given me a simple concept to solve this problem, but my engineers, customer
and I were all a little skeptical so I told my customer that I would go to his
facility and put something together to prototype the concept. The morning
that I was to go down there I went into my machine shop to find some materials
that could possibly be made to crudely mock up this idea. I went back to
my raw materials area where I selected a black piece of Delrin plastic that I
could possibly use but needed some way to connect it to an arbor press to push
my customers plastic inserts into his part. I was praying for guidance
while I kept looking around my shop when I came across a parts bin full of scrap
machined parts from other jobs that just did not work out but were possibly able
to be used in the future for other jobs. As I started pawing through this
bin with at least a hundred parts in it, I came across a piece of angle bracket
that seemed like it would work but something told me to keep looking. I
kept digging through the parts as I talked with one of my employees when I
picked up a custom made bracket with a built in clamp that was made to clamp
onto a large 45mm (metric) diameter. The Holy Spirit just told me that
that was the part and I thought to myself, how cool would that be if that large
round clamp would fit onto the square arbor on my customer's arbor press!
I thought, "there is no chance of that"! I had one of my machinists attach
the piece of black Delrin plastic to it with a bolt and off to my customers I
went, hoping I could get it to work somehow. When I got down there the
customer and I both just about fell over when it fit perfectly onto his square
arbor on his press!!! Only God knew which part of hundreds in my shop
would fit their old arbor press and He lead me right to it! I of course
gave Him all the honor and glory! What an Awesome God we serve!!!