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7/13/2015 2:35:00 PM
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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 PM
    We 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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