• Sippy Cup@lemmy.worldOP
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      If you’re going to stick around I’d recommend getting less salt in your diet. Second hand exposure to a machinist is enough salt to shut your kidneys down four times over.

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        Are there’s still manual production runs in the first world? The one machinist I know IRL does manual stuff now, but it’s all bespoke, and his colleagues sound like they might not have heard of CNC.

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            What, you’re telling me it’s not all like the cool YouTube videos? /s

            That’s a good sign for every other job that can be automated, I guess.

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        That’s certainly a lot of machinists. I’m not production, about half my job is maintenance. Half my job is making parts. And half my job is screwing around.

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      8 months ago

      I’m not totally new, but I’m glad to see there’s some on Lemmy.

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    Damn I don’t know that I’ve seen an extractor for 1" thread before. Think I’d still rather that than a 6-32 or M4.

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    My favorite is drilling a bolt out and just having the threads wrapped around the left-hand drill bit. No helicoil!