Such a useful and important tool, but I didn't even know it exsisted a few years ago.
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Such a useful and important tool, but I didn't even know it exsisted a few years ago.
a major portion of the population has no clue about machining .
i've had so many times that people have asked me what i do for a living , when ive told them i am a machinist then probably 90% of them started talking about their car , then 50% of them looked confused when i told them that i don't work on vehicles but i do make the parts that go on vehicles or what have you
or I get the " i made a screw driver in high school " , so at least they get it a bit
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A poet knows no boundary yet he is bound to the boundaries of ones own mind !! ........
Most people think "mechanic" when I tell them what I do. A few actually understand what it is I do, but have no idea how I do it or with what. As far as the equipment goes, the only people that ever had a clue were a few engineers I've met throughout the years.
One of them actually knew about CNC and eve had a clue about general machine practice. But he was an exception.
There's plenty that think a router made from Al extrusions is a milling machine.......Even less know what a Machinist is........sounds a little like Masochist eh?
Keith
that's funny...........when ive told them i am a machinist then probably 90% of them started talking about their car
i have a background in toolmaking, so i normally get "oh you make hummers, spanners and stuff"
I told a girl that I made parts for airplanes, and she asked why they didn't just go buy them.
I have tried to explain it as being like a drill press with a moving x-y base and blah-de-blah-blah...99% of the time this quickly degrades into a conversation about something they can wrap they're heads around so they don't feel stupid (for men its sports, women its shopping).
Most people stop asking questions about what I do when they find they cant understand it. This doesn't make me feel smart at all...it makes me deeply irritated at the general lack of curiosity and initiative out there.
sniff sniff...what would I do with out you guys!!
"There is more that I will never know than I will ever know"
I've given up trying to explain to my wife what I do for 8+ hours a day in the shed "making all that noise?
Machinists do it with greater precision and less tolerance!
it sounds like the blond i had last week.. ( are you in Everett ,WA??) (nuts)
maybe we know the same girl... i know that they are not all that dumb..
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they seem to be getting more and more stupid as time goes by.. perhaps a product of the fast food age..or just dumbing down..
i saw a kid last week actually looking for the keypad to flip a switch.. ( really!!)
welcome to the age of negative progress..... "retro-progressive"?
that's the name we should call them.. it sounds more PC.. than village idiot.
for me however i still have my hydraulic duplicator machine. among my collection of other toys.. ( 4 heads . slap a part in one station and it makes cuts on 4 stations..
no real brains at all.. "and the monkey flips the switch.... "
i often get confused with a mad scientist or a terrorist.. but i do much more than a machinist anyway... but they seem to do it better anyway.. more practice i think..
( always a good thing to have a friendly machinist in your neighborhood...)
It's the process of milling using machinery thus eliminating the tedious process of milling by hand.
Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock. - Will Rogers
I've got a few different names for my mill, none of which are printable here...
I love deadlines- I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.