Any Machinists here?

[Haeusser]

Just wondering if anybody here is a machinist. I have 2 years under my belt, cnc,and close to a degree.

[00bluedak]

im a machinist. i have about 4 years experience and my associates degree in cnc. i currently run a huge cincinatti horzontal cnc mill.

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[buck2001]

me too, manual, cnc i can do both

[Taz_FL]

I went to work in my first tool & die shop right when I turned 18, I'll be 46 this year. Spent most of my years running manual however got into the CNC end of it about 4 years ago. Set up, tooled, programmed and operated a Mazak CNC milling center for about one and a half years, for the last two and a half years I've been programming / operating CNC diamond turning lathes.

[00bluedak]

tool and die is a cool trade that is all to forgotten. most of it is going over seas and the quality is horrible. my first machinist job was at a tool and die/ job shop and i had to repair many foreign dies. they just arent built worth a crap over there. i worked there for almost 3 years and when i left, i was running that shop by myself. i was the only employee and my boss was teaching machine tool at the local tech school during the day. i was dealing with customers, quoting jobs, ordering materials, designing and programming, and machining everything. heck, i was even delivering. now i work for a huge company that builds all different kinds of pumps. we are currently building 8 pumps for flood control for new orleans to replace the pieces of crap that the government bought last time from somewhere else and they all failed when they needed them. the ones that we are building cost about 5 to 6 million a piece.

[caulk04]

Another one here. Graduated top of my class in Vocational/Technical school during high school. Started my current job at age 17, been there almost 3 years now.

I run a Fadal 4020A VMC with Fanuc controls and a Timemaster 2112 lathe with a Fagor 800T control (bet you never heard of the lathe!)

We make flow control gates (slide gates) for the steel making industry. Company is doing very well and I'm happy to be a part of it.

[moore_716]

I've made a few things myself.

[dlemma]

I'm a Set-up Machinist I run a Kiwa with a Fanuc 10m controller. I machine graphite to make the molds for the parts my company makes for other companies like Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, and Boeing just to name a few. My company make Micro-electronic packages for the comminication industry :onethumb: