• Wogi@lemmy.worldOP
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      5 months ago

      If you’re going to stick around I’d recommend getting less salt in your diet. Second hand exposure to a machinist is enough salt to shut your kidneys down four times over.

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      5 months ago

      There’s usually 1 of 2 kinds - really sexy cuts:

      And horrific crashes:

      Then there’s this. OP was likely doing a production run bored out of their mind, taking the likely victims of 3 crashes and wishing they had some black vinyl for a backdrop. I swear, if most of us didn’t have NDA’s, there’d be a constant stream of this kind of stuff. When you sit there for 10-12 hours a day making the same thing, you get creative. There’s an entire drawer in my box dedicated to interesting ways I’ve seen an apprentice really screw it up.

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        5 months ago

        Are there’s still manual production runs in the first world? The one machinist I know IRL does manual stuff now, but it’s all bespoke, and his colleagues sound like they might not have heard of CNC.

        • jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org
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          5 months ago

          There very much are still manual production runs. And even with CNC you sometimes wind up changing work every 12 seconds all day.

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            5 months ago

            What, you’re telling me it’s not all like the cool YouTube videos? /s

            That’s a good sign for every other job that can be automated, I guess.

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    5 months ago

    My favorite is drilling a bolt out and just having the threads wrapped around the left-hand drill bit. No helicoil!