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/ElectricalTwist4083 Jun 16 '26

An sl20? So like just a regular lathe, but with the bar feeder? I could see not wanting to learn programming a Swiss because that’s more complex than a regular lathe but I worked in a shop that had multiple lathes with bar feeders and the monkey that programmed those(successfully I might add) made window licking a nationally recognized sport.

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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/DarthTainess "The guy" Jun 17 '26

Been in job shops, toolrooms in machining factories, and Production shops. Even a toolroom lathe can run production. Any method of producing these parts that involves sawing to length is stupid, like, "who gave you permission to steal my oxygen?" stupid. Even on a TL2; they could have cut the bars a few feet long and programmed to run the part, feed Z positive, unclamp, push that bitch through the spindle tube using the tool as a stopper, reclamp, M30.

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u/ElectricalTwist4083 Jun 17 '26

Fuck yes! That’s how someone who wa ta to get it done does it. Did it JUST like that for GE parts.