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Machining NiggerFaggots, what's your story?

submitted by Clueless_Enigma to Machining 2 yearsApr 29, 2022 18:17:48 ago (+7/-0)     (Machining)

How did you find your way into this field? What kind of work are you actually doing on the daily? Who is your favorite Machining personality, and why is it AVE? Are there any financial incentives behind handcrank in this day and age, or is there only money in mass production in China? Is there any production to speak of being done Stateside?

I know enough to know I dont know shit, but I would be able to die happy knowing I've tried my best to see American Manufacturing become more than just manufacturing the blueprints that are sent to China


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[ - ] germ22 4 points 2 yearsApr 29, 2022 19:21:36 ago (+4/-0)

AvE is not a good machinist! He is a cool dude and does other things very well.
I started my own little machine shop. Manual lathe and manual mill. My main clients so far are fabricators that supply the mines in northern Ontario.
Machinists i enjoy watching work on youtube would be Curtis from Cutting Edge Engineering, he really knows his stuff for the jobs he does. Or this guy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8_lbSd1mdk) with his steam powerd machineshop, videos can drag on a bit sometimes.

[ - ] FalseRealityCheck 1 point 2 yearsApr 29, 2022 21:07:55 ago (+1/-0)

+1 for Curtis from CEE; that guy knows his shit.

[ - ] Clueless_Enigma [op] 0 points 2 yearsApr 29, 2022 19:31:04 ago (+0/-0)

What kind of product are you turning out, if you can pardon the pun? If the fabricators you're working with are supplying the mines, that would make me think replacement parts for the equipment, or the components that go into the replacement for the equipment

[ - ] germ22 1 point 2 yearsApr 29, 2022 20:18:16 ago (+1/-0)

Simple stuff really. Plates that need a few holes drilled and taped, a few pins and bushings, Plates that need a hole bored for a brearing fit, some plastic wear pads that need holes drilled and countersunk. There are many smal equipment manufacturers in the area. For the mines, especially underground, most equipment is not made by the big manufactureres like Caterpillar, or Komatsu, but by small independent shops that build a handful machines a year.

[ - ] deleted 4 points 2 yearsApr 29, 2022 18:54:36 ago (+4/-0)

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[ - ] Clueless_Enigma [op] 2 points 2 yearsApr 29, 2022 19:02:14 ago (+2/-0)

I might take you up on that offer in the future. It would be amazing to see production down here happen again.

[ - ] we_kill_creativity -1 points 2 yearsApr 29, 2022 19:54:31 ago (+0/-1)

What would be your strategy to make that a successful business in the current economic environment? I mean the fact that you can always get cheaper shit from China.

[ - ] Clueless_Enigma [op] 0 points 2 yearsApr 29, 2022 20:10:11 ago (+0/-0)

In this climate? Part repair or part replacements for equipment that can't afford to idle. My thoughts would be towards supplying teams that work on R&D equipment or indistrial park machine pieces. Alternatively, there could be some solid revenue in factory direct equipment that the everyday man would want. That would likely require CNC machinery, but if my hunch is correct that people are interested in manufacturing, then making 3d printer kits or cnc kits might be viable.

[ - ] FalseRealityCheck 0 points 2 yearsApr 29, 2022 21:12:31 ago (+0/-0)

Shit from China is going away. Globalism is not going to "recover" like so many copers imagine. The sooner production of whatever is brought back here, the better.

[ - ] KeepPoal4fags 0 points 2 yearsApr 29, 2022 21:26:24 ago (+0/-0)

My understanding is there are loads of customers who simply can't go to China as the bugs seem incapable of precision work. If you can get parts to spec exactly then other Europeans are your only competition.

[ - ] diggernicks 0 points 2 yearsApr 29, 2022 21:28:57 ago (+0/-0)

Most shops down south treat their employees as expendable cattle

Hard to keep any quality workers when your employer doesn't even pretend to give a fuck about you

[ - ] deleted 0 points 2 yearsApr 30, 2022 21:52:29 ago (+0/-0)

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[ - ] diggernicks 0 points 2 yearsApr 30, 2022 21:56:34 ago (+0/-0)

Kek

Without my trade we go back to a 3rd world nation real quick

There was ZERO chance any of my co workers were getting jabbed unless they voluntarily wanted to

[ - ] deleted 0 points 2.0 yearsMay 2, 2022 13:34:13 ago (+0/-0)

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[ - ] diggernicks 0 points 2.0 yearsMay 3, 2022 11:56:57 ago (+0/-0)

Europeans are 4th world countries in that case

[ - ] dwb3 2 points 2 yearsApr 29, 2022 18:33:19 ago (+3/-1)

I use to operate a manual lathe and vertical mill. Among other things but those are my favorite. All i see being made in mass quantities in the states are car parts and prosthetics. Unless you're doing fabrication work, its all massive cnc operations.

Theres a lot of weapons and aerospace shit going on too. AvE is cool. I frequent r/skookum. Keep yeah dick in a vice.

[ - ] diggernicks 1 point 2 yearsApr 29, 2022 21:30:10 ago (+1/-0)

Reddits for gay super niggers with turbo aids

Get back there

[ - ] we_kill_creativity 0 points 2 yearsApr 29, 2022 18:48:57 ago (+1/-1)

Unless you're doing fabrication work,

What is the distinction here? What kind of certs, if any, does one need to get into fabrication?

[ - ] dwb3 1 point 2 yearsApr 29, 2022 18:51:57 ago (+2/-1)

You don't really need any type of certifications at all to get into machining & fabrication work. Fabrication work isnt the type of industry to pump out parts on a massive scale, is all im saying. A lot of fabrication shops do not need CNC to run their operation.

Fabricated pieces are typically very expensive. Machine hobbed out cnc parts are cheap.

[ - ] we_kill_creativity -1 points 2 yearsApr 29, 2022 19:17:39 ago (+0/-1)

I've got fairly extensive manual labor/forklift experience, I'm currently doing forklift work now. Think that would look good to someone looking for someone to work in a fabrication environment?

[ - ] dwb3 -1 points 2 yearsApr 29, 2022 19:22:32 ago (+0/-1)

No. I tend to sway people away from the industry, welding fumes and metal dust is very hard on the body. But if its what you want to do, i recommend you go for it. The fabrication industry is something else, equipment experience is good, yes. But when i hear of someone whos only operated forklifts, i pretty much know what to expect.

For real though, they will teach you. If its what you want man, just start walking into places and asking them if they need help.

[ - ] we_kill_creativity 0 points 2 yearsApr 29, 2022 19:49:35 ago (+1/-1)

But when i hear of someone whos only operated forklifts, i pretty much know what to expect.

Ha...and what do you expect? I'm welcome back to get hired anywhere I've worked before because I'm always the best worker.

Idk, I'm also planning on getting into operating larger heavy machinery. I just want a wide variety of work experience with hands on skills.

[ - ] dwb3 -1 points 2 yearsApr 29, 2022 19:58:49 ago (+0/-1)

I mean ive operated about every piece of equipment you can think of. So when someone comes to me telling me they've only operated forklifts, i just know theres a lot to teach when it comes to an environment like a fabrication shop and the types of forklifts they have. We had a nice toyota with all the bells and whistles and it was awesome how easy that thing made our jobs, with a good operator. I try to help a lot of dudes, some people are hard to teach.

[ - ] Clueless_Enigma [op] -1 points 2 yearsApr 29, 2022 18:53:41 ago (+0/-1)

How much time were you spending actually working the material on a mill/lathe? Was that a good portion of the time spent or was that 1 hour working, 7 hour paperwork sort of deal? From what I understand of CNC systems, theres more value in optimal scripted pathways, then babysitting the equipment, interpreting error messages the machine spits out when something goes fucky. Sounds horribly depressing to me, but there can be good money in that.

[ - ] dwb3 0 points 2 yearsApr 29, 2022 18:58:10 ago (+1/-1)

I did a lot of fabrication work. So it was more about ten minutes at a machine and back to cutting and welding. I don't think i touched a piece of paper there. Ive actually never used CNC. Im programming illiterate, all of the stuff i made was custom.

[ - ] Clueless_Enigma [op] 0 points 2 yearsApr 29, 2022 19:20:47 ago (+0/-0)

So most of your stuff was small orders, or was there any mass production-like work that you were doing on manual equipment?

[ - ] ToNigIsToNog 0 points 2 yearsApr 29, 2022 22:58:18 ago (+0/-0)

AvE if amazing, but machining is something he does, not what he does.

I think he likely works in industrial mining / engineering and or related equipment.

not a machinist but it's a cool trade.

[ - ] MasterSuppressionTechnique 0 points 2 yearsApr 29, 2022 18:40:32 ago (+0/-0)

DMG MORI is all you need to know.

[ - ] Clueless_Enigma [op] 0 points 2 yearsApr 29, 2022 19:24:52 ago (+0/-0)

I've heard of the name, but glancing through their website makes me think of Grimco? A supplier of sorts, but I did see they're offering equipment too, which I assume is their own in house built stuff?