OT Survey: Age & Years of Machining Experience

1. What's your age? 55

1. How many years have you been involved in machining? 39 Started apprenticeship in 1967,Hanson Eng, Greenlane,Auck NZ

BottleBob wrote:

1) I'll be 60 next month. 2) 30 years. I started out as a manual machinist, and got involved with a monstrosity of a twin-turret Cadillac lathe (eww!) with a Hasbach Bandit in 1980 which got me into programming.That shop owner's son is an occasional contributor to this forum so... HIYA KEVIN!

Ok Bob...who the heck was "Pi" over on PM?...was it Hamei or Cliffy? LOL

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Have you been cleared for classified information?

Just kidding, I have no idea who "Pi" is or was. I've just recently been lurking over there and haven't noticed any "Pi". I don't know what time period you're referring to but Hamei has been out of the country and hasn't posted for what seems like years.

1. What's your age?

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1. How many years have you been involved in machining?

30, Started with a broom and a drill press, kind of a blurr ever since

Darrell

BottleBob wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@earthlink.net:

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"Pi" is "Kuei", known as a software pirate. He's the guy that was so blatant in his marketing of Fanuc option parameters that the lawyers jumped on him.

He was banned from "The Practical Machinist" a couple of months ago, but managed to sneak in a message this morning.

. 60+

If rebuilding tractor motors and farm equipment counts, for at least 50 years. I can't remember when they first let me run a lathe. it was sometime after learning how to use a Van Norman 777S boring bar, which I still have.

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Found those WMD's yet?

Zero.

6040 and but tempered much softer over the years :)

Started in '66 at United Shoe Machine in Beverly Mass.

Now collecting on my aluminum stock along with brass for the reloads :)

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-- Bill

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Later,

Charlie

Charlie:

Now that's interesting , what did you do before?

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3 years EDM late 70's early 80's

4 years fixture designing & building

17 years CNC

3 years design & build gaging

48 and counting, I hope.

34 years.

I was born in it. Deep in it. . .I just pulled that number from when I can distinctly remember my first part I took from start to finish.

All of this time in the family railcar shop and machine shop. Machine shop has always done railcar stuff, and job shop work.

I took the shop CNC on a limited basis and we now do all of our railroad axle turning work on CNC. This really happened around 1997 an got going full blast in 2000 or 2001. We have had our American

3220W CNC since about 1992. My Father gave up on it though.

Yep, I was a SOB. Now the next SOB is 9 years old in his bedroom right now under the weather at the moment. He spent his first days at work this year helping us change out roller bearings on railroad alxes that had been flooded out in Katrina and Rita. Proud moments.

Got mad at the Old Man one day and quit and went to work in a Foundry for three years as a machinist. That shop also did piss ant job shop work and I also did a lot of in house stuff. I could not believe that the Old Man there was a UT Engineering Grad and had run that foundry for years along with his Mother and we were out there with Rex 95 in the early 1980's. The SOB there was also a UT Engineering Grad. Foundry is now gone, SOB's heart was not in it.

wd

BottleBob wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@earthlink.net:

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Just about 27

Hey Bob you gonna answer you own survey?

I also wonder how long people have been in their current job.

I feel like I'm in a real minority staying in the same place so long. Well outside of our company anyways.

48 4 years in a actual setting where machining is the manufacturing process.

Bonus time for college classes, maintence repair machining in prior job.

Wes S