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[-] CameronDev@programming.dev 26 points 2 weeks ago

"Step-drill, I'm stuck"

[-] RagnarokOnline@programming.dev 17 points 2 weeks ago

This is my first encounter with your kind. I never knew I wanted to see more machinists memes

[-] Wogi@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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.

[-] jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 2 weeks 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.

[-] Wogi@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

That's certainly a lot of machinists. I'm not production, about half my job is maintenance. Half my job is making parts. And half my job is screwing around.

[-] jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 2 weeks ago

In the shop I used to work at, everything but the routers were Haas, save for the one lone Hurco. I was the only one that could and would use it, and maintenance refused to touch it. I had to crawl in there with a hammer more times than I'd care to remember. So, I feel ya.

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 2 weeks 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 2 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 weeks 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.

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 2 weeks ago

I'm not totally new, but I'm glad to see there's some on Lemmy.

[-] jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 2 weeks ago

It's gonna get drilled.

[-] blindbunny@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 weeks ago

Ahh this is why I got downvoted for saying I don't like torx ๐Ÿ˜‚

[-] HoodsOwn@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

Damn I don't know that I've seen an extractor for 1" thread before. Think I'd still rather that than a 6-32 or M4.

[-] Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 weeks ago

Dang thats alot of stripped bolts!

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 2 weeks ago

It took me a moment.

[-] BambiDiego@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Can we get a 'Loss' version?

[-] Wogi@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

You know I was setting exactly that meme up when the bell rang.

[-] BambiDiego@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

We shall watch your career with great interest

[-] ikidd@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

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

this post was submitted on 31 Aug 2024
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