I'm kind of a big deal...
 

The government has classified me and my work place as "essential". I just want all of you civilians sitting at home in quarantine to know that I will do my part to ensure that this great country remains operational. Your welcome and stay safe.

You work at an oil change place, huh?

CNC machinist

Thank you. Stay safe and god bless

That is actually pretty essential.

whats a “CNC”?

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Good question. It stands for "computer numerically controlled"

Computer Numerical Control.

Machined by a bit that is controlled by a servo, which is controlled by a computer that holds plans for the machined piece.

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Everybody who posts in here gets free rep. Bless you all

Do you write the code which controls the computer?

No, I'm too stupid to do that.

I've classified my line of work as "essential" to me leading the life I want to live and I'm not asking the government for permission to do it.

So how are you involved in the process?

I was “essential” for 12 years. Never got a damn thing out of it but more paperwork and grief.

I'm a machine operator and I also am partially responsible for the quality control of the parts I run.

How are you involved in the operation of the machine? Do you click a button to start the computer program? Do you change the "bits" or whatever they are called?

My company got the same. We remanufacture engines lol.

Everything that involves operation. Running it, changing tools, making adjustments to the program, changing fixtures and zeroing parts in (set up), keeping the machine filled with proper fluids like coolant and oil, etc.

Those of us who aren't "essential" but are classified as such should be grateful.

I know a guy who makes margarine for a living.

He was also classified "essential."

Judging by your posts, assuming you drop the fries.

Neat, thanks. I bought an electric "chain saw" a few years ago to cut down a dead bush. I didn't read the instructions to see that oil was needed for the chain. I also didn't realize that "chain saws" don't like cutting through roots surrounded by dirt.

After changing the dulled chain, I also learned that making sure the new chain is properly tensioned is critical to safe operation of said "chain saw."

Cnc music factory will stay open to make sure our fans sweat.

You know what isn't essential? YouTube content creators and amateur sports journalists.

Butter is essential as all hell

IDK, if the plague goes through the shop and half of us die for the cause we may need to revisit this. (We got several people over 55 there.)

Grab some takeout after your shift.

You’re welcome

Good thing I don't do any of that stuff for a living. :rolleyes:

Yeah, but margarine?

That stuff is vile.

Can you 3D print me an AK47?

According to a phone call I just got, ****ING MICHAEL'S is still open...how is that place essential?

Either way I'm glad I get to pick up my framed Chiefs stuff soon.

Math

Can you run an old vertical Bridgeport or an old Southbend lathe?

For now, I am essential as well. Even have a letter from Homeland Security Cyber Infrastructure if I get stopped.

Q^^

I only run horizontals.

My dog thinks I am essential, because I drop food on the floor from time to time.

I swear, she can hear me looking at cheese. I close the fridge door, and there she is - looking at me with expectation in her eyes.

Bod up boppin doppin dweet du dottem dot dowwwwwww.

I stood up the tech in a lot of the Midwest airport offices back in the day when it first started. They gave me a “badge” that looked like a cop badge to go places in case of an emergency.

what doe a command and conquer machist do?:hmmm:

You'd laugh your ass off at my little machine shop my Pops left me. Its old school tech. But It keeps my guns shooting and my steam powered toys running.

You can be essential and a piece of shit at the same time.

Back in the day, a tool & die maker was looked at, like todays atomic engineers are looked at

like most of the civilian leadership that the “essential” people reported to. Military ones were for the most part some of the smartest leaders I’ve ever met.

I mostly run older machines. Okuma 630h is what I spend most of my time on.

Yeah, but they can work from home anyway.

I have a horizontal Change O Matic Atlas mill and a 10 inch swing lathe and 24 inch centers. Without a kwik change gear box.
She'll cut threads but it takes swapping out gear sets depending on thread you're cutting.
I just don't have room for bigger and better equipment.

Glad to see people are still making a living making chips.
Its an industry that has taken some big hits over the last 20 years.

Congratulations... We're all counting on you!

"What would you say it is that you do here???"

I'd feel a lot better if our designated "big deals" had grammar skills.

How did you get a pic in your avatar of Mahomes and Bob Devaney?
Photo shopped?

He knows how to work with people DAMN YOU

Mine is considered essential because it's classified as infrastructure made me laugh

My field is getting pummeled as captial spending and projects go on hold.

That's Lenny Dawson...

You're kidding me..
Man he is spitting image of Bob in his later years

You'll be fine.. This just a short term blip on the radar.

And if Im wrong?
You're more than welcome to join my gang of bank robbers.
The Livesteam gang. We rob from the rich and keep it all **** the poor.

Up until recently I was working for an auto dealership group that just opened a new $32M facility to sell BMWs, Land Rovers and Jaguars in January. How many people do you think are rushing out to make that type of purchase right about now?

Our former shop manager is an extremely talented old-school machinist. He could do some really precision work, using lathes and mills 30 to 50 years old. He could also think through a problem. You could sit down with him and describe in general terms what you wanted to build and he would talk you through it and come up with a way of doing what you wanted that you hadn't even thought of.

Our current shop manager is a CNC guy. We have bought a mill and a lathe in the last 3 years. He does all the programming. Very talented guy and we are lucky to have him. Before we bought the CNC equipment, he could struggle through the old school ways, but it wasn't his bag.

Two totally different approaches. I think it will be increasingly hard to find the old-school machinists going forward.

Reminds of fun times, but utterly wasted times, in HS. Took 3 years of Latin, but that wasn't the wasteful part. Took 3 years of drafting, . . . with a pencil, and a ruler, and a blueprint machine.

Should have just written it off as art classes for the untalented.

I still have one of those bags that makes eraser crumbs in the back of my desk drawer, next to the precision compass.

Yup.. Them boys are all getting pretty old.

I haven't been a real big deal since HS football, yep, miss it.

Are you the guy who stuck an ice pick in his thigh?

I took one quarter of drafting in HS. It was torturous. Fine-motor-hand-eye coordination has never been my thing. Flunked "cutting" in kindergarten and never better than a C in handwriting. Zero drawing talent. Even with T-squares and triangles, I could never get the lines to close cleanly.

In my first job (before academia) we worked with blueprints. I will never forget the smell or the damp feel of a freshly made blueprint.

I took metals class all 4 years.
Some of you will be shocked to know.
I graduated highschool.
True story.

Calm down big boy.
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I LOOK AROUND THIS BOARD, AND I SEE NOTHING BUT ESSENTIAL.

YOU ARE ESSENTIAL (nose grows)

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YOU ARE ESSENTIAL (nose grows some more)

OH DEAR...

My Dad convinced me to take Drafting in HS. The teacher was just a total asshole was impossible to get past the border without picking you apart. I started my surveying career in 1977 for the Tuttle Ayer Woodward Co in KC. It was Tuttle and Pike previously the pretty much platted KC proper. The first engineering firm west of the Mississippi. They had old school Draftsmen before CAD. They were true artists incredible actually and the hand lettering wholly shit I miss it to this day. The stuff they taught you in HS didnt resemble draftmen in the trade it was a waste. You knew who drew it just by the north arrow that was their sig. I remember when AutoCAD hit about 40 draftpersons retired of left replaced by 10 AutoCad opperators.

In California marijuana dispensary workers are classified as essential. Not kidding.

Tuttle and Pike and later TAW did all the Atlas Plates for KC proper. I always liked looking at the originals.

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Lol

Are you on the N95 mask assembly line?

Interesting you have these views. Yourself as a freedom loving conservative should be all about not shutting down businesses. But here you are, mocking those that shut down, then mocking those for not staying open.

I notice you don't include the rot gut swill now being served curbside in your disdain for keeping open a regulated businesses that employs thousands of people and serves hundreds of thousands of people with their medical/therapeutic/recreational needs.

Why is it okay to keep the tap of alcohol flowing but not cannabis?

Yes.

My signature is the only thing I've written in cursive in 40 years thanks to drafting.

I wasnt aware that thread policing was essential.