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Make me a guitar, plox.
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I'm gonna learn how eventually, although I did make a Flying V body out of butter board last year ^_^
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Nerd Talk down below lol
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Ikr? [spoiler]How's it goin m8?!?!?[/spoiler]
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Pretty good m8. Had meh grad party. Made 5k. Urge to buy PC, but feel the need to save it responsibly. Idk yet. How about you?
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Wooh! Pretty good, just got back from vacation in NC, bought a couple knives and T-shirts :) Swam a bit, fought off an outer ear infection, and ate some AMAZING pizza ^_^
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Ear infections are the WORST. What kind of knives?
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Got a mini KABAR, (still longer than my hand, just not gigantic like a normal KABAR, which would go to my elbow) A CRKT Obake fixed blade knife And a Leatherman Wave multitool ^_^
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Wow. Who did you go with? Or was it just a quick trip?
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Went with my 2 brothers, mom, dad, aunt, and cousin. Stayed from last Monday to yesterday :)
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Depending on the area you live in, you're getting shafted! Last year I grossed 72k as a Cnc machinist. Granted, I've been doing this for 10 years, and can setup/program lathes and mills either g-coding or using mastercam/Gibbs cam. Btw, I work in Dallas, and thats not the most I've made in a year. Additional btw, I work approx 60 hours a week.
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A machinist that actually knows g-code? That's extremely rare, most can't even turn through coolant on via the m-code let alone move something. I was never a machinist but I worked on CNC machines quite a bit before I put my tools down for a Controls Engineering job. I worked on all sorts of FANUC controlled CNCs, first gen Mitsubishi AD71s, OKUMAs, Haas, Hurco, and plenty of others I'm forgetting.
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In college we actually have multiple classes where we have to write programs only using G-Code. We take those and Mastercam classes at the same time.
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It's good that they're teaching g-code, that will give you a much better understanding of how the machine actually works. I'm not familiar with Mastercam but I imagine it's like BobCad. Software that computes your tool path based on conversational programming relies heavily on a perfect environment. It's good to know g-code so you can alter the path in case you're having tooling or coolant issues as we both know sometimes you just have to make due with what you have available. In my experience that's what separated the machinist from the barnyard mechanic. The reason I learned g-code was from getting burnt on set up issues, it also allowed me to troubleshoot accurately. Nothing more frustrating than watching people try to overcome mechanical or setup issues with programming but sometimes it's the only solution. Keep in mind that the machines I worked on were for high volume production runs where tool life and downtime are both monitored.
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MasterCam is basically a more expensive BobCad. Slightly better simulations and toolpaths, but they do the same thing. MasterCam can be extremely temperamental though, and many of my friends in the field prefer BobCad. From what I've seen in the plants/shops I've visited, it seems that the large companies strictly use simulators rather than manually writing G-Code. So far I've only seen people write their programs manually in small shops that either can't afford or simply choose not to use simulators. In my case, we pretty much only use MasterCam, but once in a while have to slightly edit a program manually.
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I work 40 usually, with the occasional overtime. I'm only making $19 an hour, but we don't do anything especially fancy, so the pay is low. We mostly do 3-axis stuff, and maybe break out the chuck for 4th axis work once or twice a year. I'm not even the one getting shafted in this case, I have friends who are still stuck in CO-OP even though they have been working there almost 2 years. They are making $14 an hour. One friend left to join the Air Force full time and the other is still there. I'm not even sure how I got hired on full time since I am still in school. Once I graduate I'll have 2 years of experience and a degree. With that I figure I can go pretty much anywhere. I'm gonna try and get hired on at Duke Power, G.E., or Clemson University once I graduate. They pay twice as much and have AMAZING benefits.
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Also, we have 4 lathes, just regular haas sl30s and 4 mills, haas vf-0, (2x) haas vf-4, and a vf-5. Easy money lol. I prefer small shops to big ones, and I will not run production. I did prototype aerospace parts for the longest, but now I do oil field mainly.
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Edited by Gordonian Knot: 7/13/2015 3:39:27 PMWe have a 1993 HAAS VF-4 Mill, a 1995 VF-6, a 2000 Mori Seiki with live tooling that no one knows how to use, a couple Bridgeport mills, 2 Jig Bore machines, 3 Jig Grinders, about 4 or 5 normal grinders, and 4 or 5 OF Grinders Edit: I mainly work on the VF-4, but do other work if I have no CNC mill work to do
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We work with alot of exotics, like inconel 718 and 625, hastalloy, waspalloy, all the way down to g7 phenolic. Alot of prototype oil field and electronics industry parts. Btw, for future knowledge...for any high nickel content based alloys, on the lathe side, iscar cnmg 532 m3m inserts in the ic806 grade are the best around. 0.150" depth of cut, sfm around 125, and feed of 0.011. The chips just fly!
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Whoah, that sounds awesome! We mainly work with CRS, A2, D2, Aluminum, and some Pre-Hardened steel once in a while. The shop I work at is kind've behind, we only recently got inserted carbide tooling. We had a few before, but most of our stuff was HSS or solid carbide. Our newest CNC is a 2000 Mori Seiki. They only replaced our 15+ year old Bridgeport after it started smoking.
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Do you work a lathe? Drill press?
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Edited by Gordonian Knot: 7/13/2015 11:19:18 AMI know how to use both, but I mainly work on a CNC Mill :) I hop on the lathe or a manual machine if I run out of work to do
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$27k? I'm a CNC machinist, on £40k.
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Yea, I got my first job while in college, I'll be graduating this Spring. I "make" $34,000 a year, but take home about $27,000
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What kind of work are you doing?