21st June 2006, 01:31 PM
At the risk of repeating myself, it is your responsibility. If your machining looks bad, you look bad, end of. If you are happy to sacrifice the quality of your work for a quiet life, fair play. But better that you address poor machnining then and there at the risk of confrontation than you have a consultant or curator come out after the event and ask for it to be remachined. Blaming the driver wouldn't cut any ice with me I'm afraid, or your managers if you hadn't bothered them with the problem. You would just end up looking incompetent, and the financial implications of redoing it would do little for your standing either.