A friend of a friend is getting married and asked if we could engrave a rifle for him. I made a custom parallel up to hold it by the angled magwell and on the bottom, then machined some plastic to hold it on top because it had fine serrations I didnt want to clamp onto. Turned out pretty cool.
My kids birthday is coming up, I bought him a Rossi trifecta. My boss was selling it for $250, it comes with 22lr, 410, and 243 barrels for it. I think the stock was going to be a little to long for him, so I made an adapter up on my haas mini mill, went from the Rossi stock mounting point to a ar-15 buffer tube.
I’m curious how many people in r/Machinists are actually shop owners or managers vs. employees/machinists.
My boss asked if id help out with a run of A2 in my garage shop at home, kinda got shafted by working hourly for it, but ayyy money is money.
Using my haas tl1 and haas mini mill, programmed on fusion 360. My boss said he had a rush job at the shop but didn’t have time to do it, I offered to do it at home over the weekend and banged them out in a couple of hours. After material and his cut I should walk away with about $1050. Also new tool day! On to the next project
He’s a fuckin liar!
My dad asked if my home shop was busy, I said not at the moment knowing he needed a part made, so I asked what he needed and he needed a new hydraulic cap for his skid steer, couldn’t find a over the counter replacement, so I whipped one up in 45ish minutes. Then I had to send him an invoice for funsies 😂 after he got the invoice he called me and told me to keep the part lmfaoo
I’ve got 75 plates to face off from 5/16” down to 1/4” taking about .03” off per side, they are 16” diameter and have a through hole of 8”, using a haas tl2. What type of inserts do you guys recommend? Currently using wnmg 432 tf-806 and I get about 3 faces per edge, and the finish is cutting around 24 Ra, id like to be 16 or under.
I work at a job shop, I’ve been here 16 years, I’m the lead machinist, I returned from a 9 day vacation to a shit show. We have a bunch of small bosses like this to make, this one order was for 250 pcs. The owner was planning on having a guy saw cut them, face them to length in a Haas tl2, then throw them in the vf2 to be drilled. We have a sl20 with a bar feeder, nobody wants to learn how to run it, I banged these out in about 8 hours, unmanned. He refuses to learn how to use it or program it, this would have taken him and the button pusher 2 days to run these parts. Stepping over dollars to pick up dimes baybeeee!