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OtherGround Forum >> CNC Lathes and Machining, TME
| 11/13/12 1:55 AM | |
IDXtreme
Member Since: 4/27/02 Posts: 8345 |
I took a couple semesters at OCC many years ago. I want one so bad. |
| 11/13/12 2:01 AM | |
Sliss_77
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Edited: 11/13/12 2:02 AM Member Since: 3/24/12 Posts: 574 |
Cotton - A "grunt" would describe me right now for sure. Pretty much that is what I did, run a machine that was already set up and repeat.
You may already know this by now but best advice for now is to study and familiaize yourself with the various parts of the lathe (tailstock, crossfeed, etc), know what the axis of the machine are, know what the cutting tools are called. This way the guy in charge can talk to you without dumbing it down, and you can better describe issues and things to him.
Something being out by 0.001" can make a part worth several hundred dollars into scrap metal, so definately report anything that seems weird to your superior. Just curious, what kind of machine do they have you working on? A smaller lathe that was retrofitted to CNC? A machining center that has doors and everything? |
| 11/13/12 2:21 AM | |
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Sliss_77
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Member Since: 3/24/12 Posts: 576 |
I've seen those, thats why you never wear loose clothes and you never reach around the lathe for any reason why its running. I would hope this company briefed the OP on safety measures. |
| 11/13/12 2:31 AM | |
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White347LX
Member Since: 1/1/01 Posts: 55503 |
Don't start fucking around with the program just cause you think you can do it "better" either! Operators fucking up the process so they could run more parts used to piss me off to no end as a application engineer. Especially in a automated work cell. |
| 11/13/12 2:36 AM | |
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White347LX
Member Since: 1/1/01 Posts: 55504 |
BoilerBrawnByBeatdown - lathe accident search on google I hate to be dick here, but those should be impossible with modern safety systems in place. Lockouts, guards and limit switches should keep even Primitive Pete from hurting himself. What I used to find was operators would disable and bypass safety systems to shave seconds off their cycle times. We had to WELD shields in place for some customers because their workers were so bad about stripping off layers of safety controls. |
| 11/13/12 3:05 AM | |
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Sliss_77
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Member Since: 3/24/12 Posts: 577 |
Depends on the lathe, a lot of machines are 'open air' like the one in the pics. Some have slideable guards but its up to the user to move them into place. |
| 11/13/12 3:28 AM | |
Sergio88
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Member Since: 12/1/11 Posts: 3020 |
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| 11/13/12 3:31 AM | |
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TheHaunted2
Member Since: 8/19/12 Posts: 370 |
Look bud, coming from a man that served my time in engineering, its not as easy as you would like to think, speeds feeds etc, do you know any program codes at all? What control are you using? 
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| 11/13/12 10:35 AM | |
Cotton
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Member Since: 5/30/05 Posts: 48418 |
TheHaunted2 - Look bud, coming from a man that served my time in engineering, its not as easy as you would like to think, speeds feeds etc, do you know any program codes at all? What control are you using? I don't at all think it is easy. I started this by saying I have zero experience and I am trying to learn. I don't know shit yet. |
| 11/13/12 10:38 AM | |
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Cotton
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Member Since: 5/30/05 Posts: 48419 |
I go in tonight for 3 hours after work so I can get more details on the machine I will be working on. |
| 11/13/12 11:05 AM | |
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sackattack3323
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Member Since: 9/14/11 Posts: 986 |
I got hired as a cnc machinist two weeks ago. I was suppose to get 4-6 weeks training. I got 4 days and now run by myself. I love it. I went in this past weekend and learned to run the big drills (claremen) sp? Anyways great job starting pay was 22hr. 
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| 11/13/12 11:26 AM | |
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Cotton
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Member Since: 5/30/05 Posts: 48425 |
What kind of experience and/or training did you have previously? |
| 11/13/12 11:41 AM | |
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freddie/mercurys/straight/subconscious
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Member Since: 7/28/09 Posts: 3834 |
Ttt
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| 11/13/12 11:43 AM | |
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Sogsteel
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Member Since: 6/13/03 Posts: 4324 |
My brother programs and works machines professionally. You make the most money if you own your own machine from what I gather. |
| 11/13/12 11:50 AM | |
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TheHaunted2
Member Since: 8/19/12 Posts: 371 |
Cotton -Ok fair enough, what are you ecpected to do in the job, as in check the programs are ok? Or does someone else set the machine for you to run?TheHaunted2 - Look bud, coming from a man that served my time in engineering, its not as easy as you would like to think, speeds feeds etc, do you know any program codes at all? What control are you using?
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| 11/13/12 12:09 PM | |
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Cotton
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Member Since: 5/30/05 Posts: 48431 |
At this point someone else is going to set the machines for me. I am two days into a part-time job that I have worked 6 hours at so it would be foolish to let me even try to program something. This is a long-term thing for me to learn and I am at the very beginning. |
| 11/13/12 12:11 PM | |
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Hemlock
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Member Since: 2/16/05 Posts: 12733 |
I was going to buy/lease one as a hobbyist. The company I was going to get it from sold training. |
| 11/13/12 12:12 PM | |
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freddie/mercurys/straight/subconscious
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Member Since: 7/28/09 Posts: 3835 |
Cotton - At this point someone else is going to set the machines for me. I am two days into a part-time job that I have worked 6 hours at so it would be foolish to let me even try to program something. This is a long-term thing for me to learn and I am at the very beginning.Seems people can't understand that. When someone is trying to better themselves, there is always more than one person in the way trying to push you back down. Pretty typical on the OG. Place is full of cynical critics.
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| 11/13/12 12:15 PM | |
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Cotton
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Member Since: 5/30/05 Posts: 48433 |
I sent an e-mail to the guy that runs the program for machining over at my local votech school. |
| 11/13/12 12:45 PM | |
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Mark1
Member Since: 1/1/01 Posts: 45556 |
Get to know the sales guys for the consumable tooling. They have training opportunities all the time. Mark |
| 11/13/12 12:51 PM | |
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The Elastic Assassin
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Member Since: 1/1/01 Posts: 40182 |
its an industry with alot of upside... |
| 11/13/12 12:53 PM | |
UGCTT_VA757_GJTT
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Member Since: 10/3/11 Posts: 3779 |
If you have zero experience in CNC machining there is nearly a 100% chance that you could hurt yourself or others doing it. I have some experience using regular engine lathes and horizontal and vertical milling machines and when I look at CNC all I can say is that those guys learn a lot before they take the lead on a machining job. I would love to learn it.
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| 11/13/12 12:53 PM | |
Hong Kong Phooey
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Member Since: 4/21/06 Posts: 49039 |
ive had at least 3 of my products tooled and i will say the experience left me knowing just how skilled machinists really are |
| 11/13/12 1:17 PM | |
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Cotton
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Member Since: 5/30/05 Posts: 48434 |
I don't think they are going to give me anything that I can hurt myself or others at this point. |
| 11/13/12 1:21 PM | |
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Sliss_77
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Member Since: 3/24/12 Posts: 578 |
UGCTT_VA757_GJTT - If you have zero experience in CNC machining there is nearly a 100% chance that you could hurt yourself or others doing it. This is an odd statement. Who in there right mind is going to turn somebody with zero experience loose on one of these machines? Even if they did the user probably wouldn't be able to get the machine to even spinup without knowing how to set all the parameters. The OP has zero experience, but somebody else has done the setup, so his job is actually really simple. |
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