Chula Vista

Great trade but NEVER get lazy about safety. Machine operator + lax on safety = emergency room visit with a bag of ice keeping part of an appendage cold.

It's really ****ing cool watching some of those machines at work.

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Mindfulness

I agree 100 percent bro, safety is number one priority

I agree its a nice trade too, in high demand here in Connecticut for aerospace parts. Pratt and Whitney makes the airplane engines here and General Dynamics here makes the submarines for the Navy base.


Watching the machine take over on the CNC machines and cut the metal is fun to watch. We get blueprints of a part and have to make that from metal

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Chula Vista

And I spent 30 years creating the blueprints! First on vellum and then via 3D files.

Bet you and I might be the only two people on this forum that know what IGS means.

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The Batlord

I Gotta ****

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Chula Vista

Must be a highlight of your day if you capitalize it.

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on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

Mindfulness

I had a whole blueprint reading class called GD&T, extremely hard concepts for symbols that are on blueprints but never heard of IGS..


this is what GD&T is...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geomet...nd_tolerancing

we have CAM classes also (Computer Aided Manufacturing, basically making the parts on a blueprint in a computer 3D form for a machine.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comput..._manufacturing



Thats cool you made blueprints

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The Batlord

Kicking back, churning the water beneath me, reading a comic. Basically nothing better.

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Chula Vista

Putting aside the comic, I gotta say the rest of the sentence immediately brought this to mind.

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and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

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Last Night I Learned... how to use an end mill on prototrak mill. I got my aluminum block close to the tolerance on the blueprint, Im happy with it. This is the machine (or close to it), I used to cut the block...


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Then Im learning the HAAS CNC machine to put my initials on the block ....

I already knew how to use the facing tool for the milling machine but last night the end mill took off metal from the sides real smooth

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Plankton

I ran a turret lathe for a while at Chicago Roll quite a few years ago. It gets a bit mind numbing after a few months, but it's good work. I was in between jobs as a CAD guy and I'd take any job really (mechanic, welding, shop clean-up, gas station attendant, etc.) when ever I found myself in that situation, and this place happened to be right next door to where I was staying at the time, so it was really convenient. I learned fast and was cranking out pipe form rolls with the best of them. Pretty soon the owners found out about my CAD abilities and started fighting over where I should be placed, either in the drafting dept. or keep me where I was. That's when I decided to tell them I was just their until I found a job in my chosen field, which was drafting, and they weren't too happy about that so they fired me right there on the spot. About an hour after they fired me I got a job working at GMEMD designing the SD90MAC locomotive working with Unigraphics, which is a Unix based CAD system, now called Siemens NX.

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