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Shop Video: The Vee-Twin AutoCocker!

🕑 Added 2022-04-02 23:01:30 +0000 UTC

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Doc Nickel

Didn't at all take it as a dis. It's a legit frustration on MY part- it took me years to finally manage to get decent machines (oddly enough, making parts for paintball guns and drawing furry webcomics aren't exactly the stuff of Fortune 500 :) and now I've had them on the floor for over six months (!) and have barely used the one and haven't even touched the other.

William Foley

Not dissing you in any way. Different shops and different products mean different methods. I’m working in an environment of 35+ CNC spindles and one lone Bridgeport for really odd jobs. I have been programmed, so to speak, to view all machined parts as: ‘How can we make a bunch of these as fast as possible with low to middle skilled operators.’

Doc Nickel

You're screaming?!? I have two new-to-me CNCs that I've had for over six months now, and haven't had a chance to properly use yet! I finally did a short run of parts (like, *thirty*) yesterday on the lathe, but I haven't even powered up the mill since, like, December.

Doc Nickel

For me, not necessarily "economically", but yes, there's a recycling place only a few miles away, and they take "turnings and borings". I don't recall what I get per pound, it's not much, really, but at least it's being recycled and not dumped in the landfill.

Walter W Matera

When I was the clean-up boy in the Chemistry/Geology machine shop back in college (a loooonnnnng time ago!) I would sweep up all the steel shavings and put them in the trash barrel. All the brass shavings I would carefully sweep up and put in a recycling barrel because brass was expensive. Then there was the piece of machining that was for an experiment that went down the MoHole. Every time the machinist made a cut, he would turn off the lathe and pick up the shaving with tweezers and put it in a separate box. Machining 18c. gold is special!