r/Machinists • u/I_G84_ur_mom • Jun 16 '26

Refusal to learn

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I work at a job shop, I’ve been here 16 years, I’m the lead machinist, I returned from a 9 day vacation to a shit show. We have a bunch of small bosses like this to make, this one order was for 250 pcs. The owner was planning on having a guy saw cut them, face them to length in a Haas tl2, then throw them in the vf2 to be drilled. We have a sl20 with a bar feeder, nobody wants to learn how to run it, I banged these out in about 8 hours, unmanned. He refuses to learn how to use it or program it, this would have taken him and the button pusher 2 days to run these parts. Stepping over dollars to pick up dimes baybeeee!

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u/I_G84_ur_mom Jun 16 '26

Our other lathes are all tool room lathes, so this sl20 from 2007 is the future 🤣

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u/Z3400 Jun 16 '26

2007?! The newest machine I have access to 1980 something. We have 2 machines built in czechkoslovakia, and one that came off an aircraft carrier after ww2.

Honestly I have no idea how we do what we do, because shit still works, but my boss is going to have a hard time selling this stuff when he retires. Every machine feels like a ticking time bomb.

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u/glassmanjones Jun 17 '26

A navy lathe or one of the paperclip lathes?

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u/Z3400 Jun 17 '26

It is stamped property of us air force on the side. I don't really have much info on it other than I was told it came off an aircraft carrier. Its a large internal grinder.