{"id":41,"date":"2026-10-11T00:37:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T00:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-industrial\/tolerances-that-cost-money-and-the-ones-that-do-not\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T15:08:25","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T15:08:25","slug":"tolerances-that-cost-money-and-the-ones-that-do-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-industrial\/tolerances-that-cost-money-and-the-ones-that-do-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolerances that cost money, and the ones that do not"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Most of the price of a machined part is machine time, and tight tolerances add time: slower cuts, extra finishing passes, more inspection (sample note).<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hold the tight figures for the features that fit something: bearing bores, sealing faces, locating holes. A general tolerance of plus or minus 0.1 mm is easy for every machine on our floor.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you are not sure which features matter, send the drawing anyway. Our estimators mark the features that drive the price and suggest where a looser figure would save money.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A tight tolerance on the wrong feature can double the price of a part (sample note).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-design-for-manufacture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-industrial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-industrial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-industrial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-industrial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-industrial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-industrial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-industrial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions\/66"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-industrial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-industrial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-industrial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-industrial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}