CNC Machining

[Cavman]

http://m.wimp.com/watching-this-mach...tely-hypnotic/

[acpd22]

Can you imagine the stuff I could make with one of these?

[TXrider]

We have a Mori Seiki lathe [BIG BOY], a Monarch 10EE [little boy], a Lagun Mill and a Bridgeport Mill. No CNC stuff at our place. CNCs are nice but manually making parts is very interesting and satisfying. Watching all of our machines turn pieces of metal into chips is very mesmerizing and fun.
I'm starting to get the hang of operating the Lagun and Mori Seiki.
It's fun to design parts for our M/Cs [flat trackers and daily riders] and make them out of Aluminium or Titanium.

[Chupaca]

Water jets are also fun to watch...

[retread]

Wire EDM, some of the best work I've ever seen. I watched the first set of rods for the Caddy Northstar engine made on one... all eight at once!

john

[Cavman]

Before I became retired, not by choice, I worked at Sidel, Inc. They half the world's market in blow mold technology. They make the molds for plastic bottles. They also make the machines the molds go in.

I was a Mold Technician, my chosen title. Our department polished the machined parts of the molds that were aluminum or stainless steel.

Here is an example of a fond or base. Think peanut butter jar bottom. This fond has been bouncing around in my truck for a number of years so it not so shiny anymore. We polished these parts by hand using air driven hand tools.

image.jpgWe would also assemble the molds and test them. They had cooling circuits that had to be water tight. Some of the machines could put out 60,000 bottles of more a hour! Lots of heat to dissipate.

[MOSESS]

How many of you guys are Machinist. I retired last year. The one thing I missed the most is lathe and milling machine I worked on , I thought it would be the guys I missed ,It turns out I miss the music of the bits...

[chisel_maker]

How many of you guys are Machinist. I retired last year. The one thing I missed the most is lathe and milling machine I worked on , I thought it would be the guys I missed ,It turns out I miss the music of the bits...

Retired 2 years ago after 48 years as a machinist, CNC programmer, tool and die maker and shop foreman. I don't miss any of it. Best thing in my life next to my family has been retirement.

[bcer960]

How many of you guys are Machinist. I retired last year. The one thing I missed the most is lathe and milling machine I worked on , I thought it would be the guys I missed ,It turns out I miss the music of the bits...

I built my first CNC 14 years ago, second one 3 years ago. Mostly wood working though. Some corian. Like my spyder, Wouldn't give it up....