2 mo. ago • 87%

IYKYK

21 comments

"Step-drill, I'm stuck"

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This is my first encounter with your kind. I never knew I wanted to see more machinists memes

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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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- There's usually 1 of 2 kinds - really sexy cuts:
  
  And horrific crashes:
  
  Then there's this. OP was likely doing a production run bored out of their mind, taking the likely victims of 3 crashes and wishing they had some black vinyl for a backdrop. I swear, if most of us didn't have NDA's, there'd be a constant stream of this kind of stuff. When you sit there for 10-12 hours a day making the same thing, you get creative. There's an entire drawer in my box dedicated to interesting ways I've seen an apprentice really screw it up.
  
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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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  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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- I'm not totally new, but I'm glad to see there's some on Lemmy.
  
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It's gonna get drilled.

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- Tap that...
  
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Ahh this is why I got downvoted for saying I don't like torx 😂

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It took me a moment.

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Dang thats alot of stripped bolts!

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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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Can we get a 'Loss' version?

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- You know I was setting exactly that meme up when the bell rang.
  
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  We shall watch your career with great interest
  
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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!

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