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Anonymous06/09/25, 06:58No.2922997
/EMOT/ - Eternal Machine Operator Thread
Clock in, push green button, play on phone until m30 happens
When out of metal go get an adult
Never going to learn gcode or machine offsets what about you guys?
What flavor vapes are the best?
>hey bro
> one of the drill bits, the one with the flat bottom that cuts with the sides is broken
> Imma go smoke while you fix it bro
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Anon06/09/25, 09:05No.2923006
>>>/fa/ [//boards.4chan.org/fa/]
Go back
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Anon06/09/25, 09:35No.2923009
I don't know what I qualify as. I got trained OTJ to operate mills to the point of manually editing some code and even programming our lathe, but pretty much just stuff directly related to simple operation. Everyone else left so now I also cut my own material and decide when/what to run but it's all the same production parts, not the one-off jobs the boss does. Sadly, these other tasks, including kitting and shipping, mean I have very little time for idle phone browsing.
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Anon06/10/25, 04:40No.2923159
being trained as manual machinist and fuck my back is killing me. They train me on the machine that no one uses because it doesn't have autofeed, some polish antiquity looking bullshit. It makes cool stuff but god damn. Going to have full on popeye arms at the end of this.I'm almost done with my starter projects and will have time for some g-jobs. Anything cool I should make while I have free time and a lathe? (something I could take out of work in a backpack)
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Anon06/11/25, 05:49No.2923407
My local makerspace has a Bridgeport step pulley clone that has an extra lever, and I cannot find any manuals or references on what it actually does. Anyone have any idea what it's for?Pic related. On the background is the official documentation from Bridgeport, which is the grey machine.
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Anon06/11/25, 07:25No.2923411
>another episode of wagemonkies pretending their jobs are complicated while getting paid $16/hr
Why are machinists like this? The software basically does everything for you anyways.
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Anon06/11/25, 10:29No.2923419
you dont even know how to make a thread properly, why i am not surprised
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Anon06/12/25, 00:48No.2923562
got a mill
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Anon06/12/25, 14:12No.2923693
Not really machinist question but maybe someone here can help
The mist separator on the CMM is leaking from the bowl. Does the entire unit need replacing or just the filter element?
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Anon06/20/25, 22:07No.2925463
should I spend an entire year's salary on a cnc mill
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Anon06/21/25, 22:21No.2925740
>imagine the handies
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Anon06/23/25, 23:38No.2926244
HS kids in shop class be like
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Anon06/26/25, 17:15No.2926905
Say hypothetically you were a casual crossdresser or trans woman, what kind of fashion would be safety conscious as a machine operator. Tied up hair and jeans and no loose clothing is key right
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Anon06/26/25, 23:22No.2926953
What DRO to get for a Bridgebort? I was looking into touchdro but I think I would like using something with physical buttons over using a tablet touch screen I guess the functionality would be a lot better than some of the Chinese dros like the toauto but the price is a big plus for the toauto
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Anon06/27/25, 08:53No.2927027
Machinechads - I need a few small parts tapped but don't want to get it thread milled and pay my guy hundreds to buy the tool and labour.How can I do this myself?
Metal: sterling silver (cast with 1.6mm dia holes)
Need to tap for M2 screws. 0.4mm pitch
M2 has a 1.567mm minor diameter, 2.0mm major diameter.
What exact taps do I need because I see a few different types out there.
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Anon06/28/25, 07:03No.2927257
Be careful
The more you try to avoid responsibility and learning, the more you actually learn about this trade.
Happened to me years ago, i couldnt have been happier pushing button, but as time went on i started getting annoyed at the programs running slow so i started pissing off the programmer and soon he turned into an office fag and i was left with 3 cnc mills to program and service.
I had young kids fresh out of highschool pushing buttons and taught them everything i knew so they take on more responsibility.
Pay increase was good but it wasnt what i wanted.
I wish i kept my mouth shut and pretended to be retarded so they feel sorry for me
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Anon06/28/25, 16:50No.2927329
sneed's feeds and speeds
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Anon06/28/25, 18:30No.2927347
formerly on 4 jaw chuck's
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Anon06/28/25, 18:47No.2927353
fellows
i shot the shoot the shit by square
carbide CARBIDE with RADIUS brokes
the boss nigger says make out of plate 24
i do by cut, but by thick of plate?
so i iphone machine to keep carbide in place, not shell shitll by shell of 2 inches of surface and saprikng despite pilk
bullshit
pay your fucking debts and give me what i sneed, ill ballet
china
CHINA is affordable for me
yiyu pay me?
you complain about me?
im back to working at the
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Anon06/29/25, 01:33No.2927446
You are lying. You have to set the tool heights and zero in stock.
And you probably have a dedicated programmer, meaning you probably have to check the program you are about to run.
You already know basic g code and can predict a mill break based on the sound it makes.
You are slowly getting experience and soon you will get more and more responsibilities at work and now you feel like you miss the simpler days.
It all starts eith the introduction of M1
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Anon07/01/25, 15:57No.2928148
so i need to do this dive with a 55/64 four flute endmill to widen a through-hole, the problem is i only have a drill press with a jacobs taper 3 and the ER32 collet chuck only has a morse 2 so basicall i want a sleeve that fits into the female jacobs 3 but also takes the morse 2, somehow there are only dual male arbors on the interwebs, wat do
also the vape smoke makes my bones hurt
also
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Anon07/02/25, 10:33No.2928363
Which steel do i use for wood chipper blades?
Im building one like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WiShUSggasI did some calculations and some reading, i found out the angle dimensions of the entire blade, the shaft is 50x50 (mm) where its square and rounded 30 in diameter on the sides, a tractor is going to power it instead of electric motor, so it has a lot more torque on 300RPM.
Since you people go trough a lot of steel, which one do i use that wont bend or dull easily (the wood it shreds wont be tough nor dry)?
Have in mind, in the video, the man didnt put any fixed blade on the bottom, its just all flat, i on the other hand have placed a fixed knife made out of 1.2379 steel, i have no idea why was it expensive or praised by the machinist guy that milled it into shape for me, i guess its tough, he recommended not to make the spinning blades out of it because if it runs into something, it explodes like a grenade and its too dangerous.
I dont plan to heat treat the blades either, id rather have them bend than to have them fly in pieces everywhere if something gets caught in the chipper.
Note that i have absolutely no idea how steel is classified nor the names or markings, i only know the requirements for steels characteristics and price ofcourse, meaning i need it cheap.
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Anon07/05/25, 23:55No.2929259
Why arent there any black people in CNC buisness in USA at least?
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Anon07/08/25, 02:27No.2929718
What is the biggest size indexable face mill you can reliably use on a bridgeport style mill (r8 taper)?
Are there any good cheap chinkshit endmills/face mills on ali? Ive had pretty good performance out of the Deskar stuff on the lathe I bought a while back
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Anon07/08/25, 22:01No.2929904
>started learning G code from community college
>its fucking easy
>people whine about how hard it is
why doesn't this field pay more
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Anon07/15/25, 00:23No.2931483
Anybody have any experience running DMG Mori machines they'd care to share? or maybe older Mori Seikis?
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Anon07/17/25, 02:17No.2932022
lmao i’m buying a small table top cnc and i’m gonna have AI do all the legwork from designing to writing all the code for renders and tool paths. See you boomers in the future
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Anon07/24/25, 02:20No.2933738
Any good cheap r8 collets? I was thinking about getting a Lyndex-Nikken one for 7/8" because I have read the cheaper ones are prone to breaking but im going to need a few metric ones too and would rather not pay $50 per collet
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Anon07/26/25, 03:18No.2934231
For years I thought to anodize aluminum you use electrical currents to control the end color result. Turns out that's titanium, and for aluminum you just soak it in a pot of dye for a while. What a gyp.
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Anon08/01/25, 02:35No.2935557
How do you get into the world of working with big shit like pic rel?
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Anon08/03/25, 07:07No.2935965
Anons, how do i read mechanical draft documents? Is it hard?
It looks like witchcraft to me.
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Anon08/03/25, 07:18No.2935968
dis stuff complicated, i wish i had a higher IQ
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Anon08/09/25, 16:16No.2937298
>tfw after 6 years an operator i did well enough on the programmer test to land a probationary position in toolingI don't want to go back. After being surrounded with real machinists I know where I need to be. I don't know if its just the culture of the company but production is like a hellscape of drama and bitching and whining and I don't think I'll be able to deal with it after seeing the promised land.
That and programming, setting up, and making a part start to finish is an amazing fucking feeling.
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Anon08/21/25, 18:30No.2939756
>seig attempts to cut a bearing fit
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Anon08/27/25, 16:46No.2941204
No /emg/ so I'll ask you fucks. I have a 12x36 lathe I'm looking to sell and I don't want to do craigslist/marketplace/whatever because I don't want a whole bunch of random assholes coming to my house and scoping out my tools and bikes and shit. I figured I would just put it on ebay and accept the ridiculous sale fee in exchange for not dealing with 100 retards a day offering to trade for their PS5 or beat to shit dodge dart or whatever, and also having precisely one person come to my house to pick it up. Is selling something this big inexpensive on eBay safe for the seller? I know at least in the past their and PayPal side with the buyer 99% of the time and can completely fuck over sellers for literally no reason and obviously I don't want that to happen for a several thousand dollar sale.
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Anon09/19/25, 22:33No.2945809
I operate a pretty unique machine, it's a blistering machine at a pharmaceutical company, mostly sodium butyrate stuff and some probiotics, pretty cool ngl.
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Anon09/24/25, 02:17No.2946638
Is there a good book or place to to get prints for manual lathe and mill practice? I need ideas of stuff to make so I can actually practice and get better
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Anon09/27/25, 06:17No.2947255
This poor machine now gets to live in my half dirt floor barn. Couldn't turn it down for $100.
Everything works, runs great on single phase too.
The only thing that doesn't work is my total lack of CNC knowledge.
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Anon09/27/25, 11:38No.2947273
How do I learn to become a maintenance brained person?
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Anon10/09/25, 03:25No.2949749
Im going to get an aliexpress parting blade what what insert style should I use? MGMN SP300 or something else?
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Anon10/10/25, 02:20No.2949932
Why is the manufacturing industry really really really small in America?I just got back from a trade show and everyone there I knew, knew of, knew of me and knew of people I’ve done business with…Is this entire fucking industry like legit 200 people max?