Most important thing is - do You teach students to work with lathe with door lock cheated? |
No. I certainly would not do that and yes they are using door open / slow mode for set up.
I misspoke in the original post - the machine will respond to feed override in MDI mode just not auto. I also exagerated a little about the screaming student and the chopped off finger comment - however it did scare the $@#% out of him.