Shop Improvements, Work Preferences, and Career Moves | The Impractical Machinists 04

[@drewgraff7748]

As a self taught one man band it’s nice to listen to other shop owners talk shop.

[@devastator39]

Downcut endmills work well with vacuum fixtures.

[@szaboandras74]

Great Pod! I'm a small machine shop owner and can relate to so many of your issues. It was nice knowing I'm not the only one going through these things.

[@patrickmcclintock7027]

Yessir.

[@brianwaayenberg3099]

enjoying the contend and down to earth disussions.

[@larrymashburn7789]

Our company too has to do some old castings. We did some work for Boeing and when I suggested that we machine the casting drawing out of solid stock and then complete the finish machining drawing from that casting. They told me that would be considered a counterfeit part. So it's been actual investment castings that eat our lunch and then machining.

[@whatwedo3443]

I’m a machinist I can make anything but money!

[@TheDefeatest]

Delrin is a great plastic to work with. Great podcast guys.

[@CiviL_Machine]

HSS is actually able to get sharper than carbide. UHMW especially HSS works better than carbide. For all other plastics a YG1 alupower is the best I've found; with the helix angle mentioned.

[@wmcrash]

Downcut mills are a staple in the woodworking cnc world. Also, there are compression mills that will upcut on a small section at the tip and downcut on the rest of it. The idea is you get no chipping on the edges. Again, a staple in woodworking, but should give you minimal burrs both top and bottom on full depth contour operations.

[@patrickmcclintock7027]

Nice!

[@gimmehalo1]

We have Blum probe and laser. You can load a bunch of tools then run a program that will cycle through them and run them through the laser for tool pick up.

[@patrickmcclintock7027]

Renishaw can do similar, probably not as fast or accurate as a laser.

[@gameGuy777]

Man, I wish I worked for you guys. Yall seem to value an employee who wants to better the shop. Idea after idea I have shot down by management until all hell breaks loose and now somebody in management has a great idea they totally came up with on their own. Several instances of asking my employer to buy us a tool or do this or that, only to have it be done later aftwe being told I was dumb.

[@patrickmcclintock7027]

Sounds like you need to move shops, man. Nobody needs to put up with that garbage.

[@garyweber7419]

I've ran down cut mills on aluminum since it would pull out of the fixture or the boar would be out of round . since could not hold tight enough to keep it in the fixture .

[@hutchinsoncaraudio9234]

Xometry is awesome. Our shop is 80% xometry! Love them basically no customer interaction and you get paid fast! They let you focus on what you're good at which is making Parts

[@Mr_Eyeholes]

UHMWPE… Isn’t that what the devils condoms are made from? 😂 I deal with it plenty in medical. Milling it’s fine, drilling sucks, turning sucks. Deburring it really sucks.

[@Machiningiscool]

😂😂

[@Cor-l4w]

Burr whip

[@Cor-l4w]

Route a Burr is the other one

[@jarrodsutterfield3752]

Caron engineering is the company my shop has for rfid tool presenting

[@garyweber7419]

Why you leave a shop. never made it past 6 years give or take . 1 no possible advancement 4-5 years toped out internal pay scale only way up is to leave .now I've started my own shop just to carry me into retirement. Seams like a bad idea but if everyday is Saturday I would run out of $ And i like what i do .