@@isaacmcmillen9246 How so? I've been in the trade for just over 20 years now. I've seen my pay go up steadily over that time. I'm well over 6 figures at my current shop.
"I'm not going thru this, you're going to have to google it". That's the kind of thing I would end up saying. I have commercial quantities of cactus. I have quite a lot of knowledge and you quickly find out most people don't.
nothing like paying attention to every single sound with your hand quivering over the red stop button, hoping that you didnt fuck up with a tool clearance somehow
It's okay. Remember your safe space. Imagine the sound of the spindle returning and the table rapiding back home. You open the door and everything looks good. You measure the critical features, and everything comes back right in the middle of the tolerance. A warm feeling of calm washes over you.
I’m a machinist trapped in the body of an engineer. You’d think that would make me better at either engineering or machining but it actually just makes it impossible for me to have normal relationships or conversations.
I am a CNC integrator. I teach CNC machines how to talk to machinists. I think of ending my li#& several times every day. My clients think I'm on vacation for the past 5 months, but I'm actually recovering from a massive, massive, massive mental breakdown. I am currently hiring, btw.
What did machinists ever do that was so great? Answer: The entire industrial revolution, winning wars, and saving lives by making all of the critical parts to all of the equipment that brings you everything that you value. Without machinists we are back to having black smiths and pulling plows with horses. That's what.
Explaining cnc machining is hard enough. now try to understand my strugle to explane my work as an EDM-Threading machinist xD. The puzzled looks on peoples faces when i tell them i cut metal with a wire and electricity. Amazing
Trained and experienced CNC- machinist here: Excellent video to bring it casually! Good example with the wood. A lot of makers are buying a cheap CNC machine or even modify an existing one to make it a CNC-Machine to cut some nice wooden pieces. But yea the ones I know respect me for knowing how to cut metal, because that's just an entire different story. Only thing lacking in this video is the importance of how to hold you workpiece. I mean it's easy to clamp a square block. That's mostly not the case though. Especially if you have an existing part and you are asked to 'just remove a bit of that surface'. :D
First 10 seconds is like: Okay... Spindle is still in one piece... Nothing moved... Machine didn't break in half yet... Alright let it go thennnnn... Okay no scary sounds we're good to go... I think
CNC machining is underrated profession, it's complicated, takes responsibility, whole day looking at machine and metal, low pay. Only thing that is worth is starting your own CNC workshop.
Is it really that low pay? I'm just an apprentice so I get $20/hour and free classes at community college but the guys who are teaching me at work make like $80 or $100/hour.
@@kugelblitz1557 whoa, that is some fair pay for the job. In Bosnia and also Slovenia it's poorly paid, Slovenia around 1500 euros a month for bit experienced guy.
Cnc machinists pay varies greatly. Don’t expect as an operator to make fuck all for money. Setup operator makes marginally more. Tool and die or mold makers make a little more, almost a decent wage depending on the shop. Programmers make a bit more. Idk man maybe I’m too jaded lol
@@icuric4077 we mostly make parts for cigarette machines and packaging machines, so we'll get the same orders of parts every few months when they make a new one . Most of the parts are 1-10x per job so they're expensive compared to ones where you make hundreds or thousands. My mentors have been at it since the eighties or nineties so they're pretty fast at it. That's the little prototrak/ez-trak machines though. I have no clue what our guy on the big Haas and Okuma machines makes. He handles more of the jobs that need fifty plus of the same part or ones with super tight tolerances.
@@nwfpv8681 are there that many different categories between operator and setup and programmer? At all the shops I've visited and the one I work at seem to have a system where one or two dudes are in charge of operating any given machine. That includes looking at the drawing, planning operations, finding stock, telling the office what to order if necessary, programming, setting up and running it.
I can make just about anything, CNC Machinist specializing in prototype submarine parts and nuclear reactors. Only thing I can’t make is a living wage that allows me to go outside my 400sqft apartment.
Bro feel your pain machinist don't get paid enough. It's sad you can go work two part time jobs work 48 hours a week get two days off a bring home more money than working 48 hours at one job after taxes think bout that
That half you pay check comment was spot on lol. Love machining, but it doesn't pay so I have to move on to something that will allow me to buy my own machines and start my own machining business. The straw that broke the camels back was when I went to Subway to get food and they had a sign out that said, "Hiring now, part time/ full time, starting at 18$ an hour" Which is what I was making until a year ago. You would think a person that can hold tenths (.0001") tolerances on manual and cnc machines would get paid a decent amount more than a "sandwich artist" at a fast food joint.
That's what I'm saying.... Machining sounds fun, I was a cnc operator when I was younger (just a button pusher), and I would be interested in learning how to machine things, make things, but the pay I see on indeed is literally less than most service jobs. Like why???? I moved to Des Moines and they have a tool and die maker degree and I thought that would be interesting, but the pay I see for these jobs is like $25 at most, with $18-$20 being average. I'm sorry but that's insulting to go to school for 2 years to learn a trade/skill and that's my endgame? It's bizarre to me that the skills to literally make anything is only worth $20 an hour.
@@hhjhj393 yeah. The problem with this skilled trade is that it can be exported to countries where the workers get paid two dollars an hour, don't have safe working conditions, and don't get benefits. The worst part is, to them, two dollars an hour is probably good money.
Hey, never forget, something will happen, you just hope it's what you want. And don't forget your G50 on every tool, or you'll start in the middle of the program one morning and spin it to the moon, ask me how I know, got very lucky it was a collet not a chuck.
I always find it funny when I try to explain to people what I do and they have no idea what it is. I tell them everything man made on this planet is thanks to a machinist from the food on your plate to the clothes on your back.
Hahahahahahahah "Somebody call the cops" got me rolling, it's like when everyone in the room agrees you're overreacting for something but you're sure you're not and they just don't know, otherwise they'd take your side
The frig? I’d rather simulate and know there’s one less thing that can go wrong than run fast and loose and have to fix a setup or do tool setup again bc I was lazy and in too much of a hurry.
4:19 I'm not a professional, but I must be SUPER lucky. I used a 3-axis CNC router, and when I put the bit in I didn't make it more than an inch. So there was this plunge cut that was over am inch. The machine goes for it, the collet gets stuck, and machine breaks. THANKFULLY it was just a popped 6A fuse, which you can get a pack of like 10 for $20 or something.
Oh boy if you think cam programming is boring just wait until you have to make those programs without cam software, punching in and making every code yourself because the machine is a big old piece of garbage ;) Otherwise yes, this video is 100% right :D
Oh, its not boring, its just tedius as fuck. And once you finally get going you'll have a casual heart rate of 195 with a death grip on the Cycle stop button and feed rate knob.
@@Celciusify I always thought the emergency stop button should not be mounted above the spindle (as on older CNCs like the Bridgeport Series I and II vertical mills). Why not have the shut-off attached to a safety harness or a pressure plate and have it triggered when the machinist ran away? While running a much larger milling machine, I once had a part weighing over 300 pounds tear loose and spin around the boring bar. It was only a matter of time before the boring bar gave way. The last place I wanted to be was anywhere near that machine, but that's where the power cutoff was located.
yeah when i was working on a CNC punch i broke one of the dies because the guy setting up the triangular punch & die misaligned them by 180 degrees making it go bang like a shotgun, the die was worth 1 months worth of my income, scariest thing that happened to me ngl
As an engineer I pride myself on going to my machinists with only the most deranged and unreasonable machining tasks. >Yes, can I get this 1 foot alumina (not -um) tube cut in half... Lengthwise? >Thanks, yes. Tomorrow would be great!
You never forget your first real crash... ramming a 40mm diameter boring bar into the spindle because you were new and distracted by people talking to you was a very fun experience 😂
At my workplace we own a 3 axis CNC Machine for simple Metal working and mainly carving custom curcuit boards from a copper sheeted PCB plate. I can HEAVILY relate to the part where you're about to press "start" and your past 15 minutes of setting up the machine flashes before your eyes looking for a mistake you could've made.
Haha oh man, I've been poorly explaining machining for over 2 decades, well done my guy. I do wish hollywood had more focus on manufacturing, I've watched a ton of your videos I had no idea you were a machinist. I don't know if you've seen it, but MTDCNC is doing a machine shop rescue series, they're on season 2. Full disclosure I do contract video work for them, the series is one reason I wanted in.
in my first job as a cnc operator/programmer i forgot to had the tool compensation on the program, the result was a dead spindle and a bent linear rail, i was so ashamed that i quit on the spot that moment is carved in my mind with so much detail that if measured properly it could attain RA 0.3 finish roughness
@@machsuper I'm so "antisocial" I don't like using T9 to text on my non-touchscreen brick phone, so sharing videos takes on a whoooole new meaning 🤣 I'll do it for you though buddy keep on keepin on!!
That opening has me like a slap in the face because I'm guilty of it. Currently running my horizontal while drilling some stainless at the moment. The rest of this video just hasn't he called out. Ya bastard 😅
There was that one machinist movie with Christian Bale, who lost like a whole swarf-bucket worth of weight for the role of a machinist, and it showed some other machinists doing machinist things. And then one of the machinists got all messed up in a machine. And then Christian Bale's machinist character kinda went way off the deep end or something? Can't think of the title but, was pretty cool I guess.
Machinist from germany here 👋🏻 Thats the absolut worst… you double an triple check everything and can never be safe that everything goes like you think. And the worst of all no matter how experienced you are…. You know in the next 5 years it is possible that a crash can happen… and it probably will happen… i f***ing love it
Well, if you’re starting an apprenticeship and you’re new to CAD software and cam software it’s actually very interesting to me. But I can see how it bore the hell out of my trainer sometimes 😂 but I’ve had so much fun learning all this stuff like I really love CNC and the manual too and surface grinding . We do all milling pretty much at the tool and dye shop I’m at. The only time we turn that lathe on is to face and turn some pillars for a mold or do a one off. We do a lot of mold fixing and replacing pins and things like that from machines on the other side where the mold people are that do that boring button pushing crap 😂 But truly, I love learning about the tooling, tool paths and the speeds and feeds and all of that stuff. I’ve really I picked the perfect career to start. I love it! I really do enjoy what I do ! And I think that’s important to a healthier lifestyle . And it only took a year and a half of college, which is awesome because I don’t owe much money. it took me a while to find the shop that I wanted to start my apprenticeship at this is the third shop, but I finally found the one that I love with the right trainers that are patient and actually know how to teach. I’m blessed with this shop. It’s a very good shop. It’s not huge. It’s a smaller shop, but it has great trainers constant work and a great environment This video is funny. Reminded me of me in some ways and reminded me a lot of some of the people at my shop 😂
0:02 so I'm not allowed to be here? Or do I count as a machinist? I study Mechatronics Robotics at a university of applied sciences and I have had a few courses on manufacturing engineering and have used a cnc mill once. Still watching this video because why not.
I went to school for Prototype and Design: I played with a lot of "toys": from table saws to mills to vacuum formers to lathes... the only tool you're not trained in is how to forge something with hammer (I ironicly do exactly that as a hobby). I never took the classes on cnc coding, but I know the horror of a broken tool and a what happens when you mess up zeros... neither are a fun day.
One movie that doesn't do a half bad job at showing machining is the first minute of Chort Circuit. But then again it's only like a minute, you see a mill doing its thing, you see the controller for a second, You see a lathe and that's it.
I'm a CNC Machinist all the way from Brazil. (For those of you guys that just discovered CNC Machines, now you discovered a new country also). Worked with Lathes first and now with mills, and if i break a tool it's usually the value of my monthly income. And no, i don't need to pay their value in money, i just pay in mental health like a good machinist.
As a machinist, I can see how confusing i can be when describing machining. I will now just tell people I control robots the size of an 1 bedroom apartment that cuts metal with a laser.
I always touch off on the top of the part, set the offset, but then I add .100 in the z-axis to it before I press the start button. Single step it in and then, if it looks like a .100 above the top of the piece, it should be fine! I may have laughed a little too hard at the problem solving bit of this video 😂😂😂
A colleague of mine forgot to enter the drill bit length in his program so the machine slammed the drill into the table. Who had just been made perfectly flat. He also came in drunk once from the night before, got sent home, forgot about the whole interaction and showed up again later.
Non machinists will never know the joy of running a first off and just as the tool comes into contact with the material someone else in the shop drops something with a loud bang. They did make a movie about machinists, The Machinist, it makes us look cools and normal
I'm a CNC Machinist from Dallas, Texas. I can honestly say that I can make everything except a living
@@isaacmcmillen9246 How so? I've been in the trade for just over 20 years now. I've seen my pay go up steadily over that time. I'm well over 6 figures at my current shop.
True that brother
So true. Cnc machinist from green bay wi
I always thought skilled tradesmen made a lot of money, especially in Texas.
@@lbgstzockt8493 I'm in CA. Making 6 figures. Been in the trade a little over 20 years.
I'm a machinist "A mechanic?" I'm not having this conversation again
If I have to explain the difference, one MORE time... Idk, maybe cry quietly.
"I'm not going thru this, you're going to have to google it". That's the kind of thing I would end up saying. I have commercial quantities of cactus. I have quite a lot of knowledge and you quickly find out most people don't.
Yes you are
I'm a mechanical locksmith, it's the same concept but more archaic
Felt.
I'm TRIGGERED, literaly shaking while sitting watching this. I can still hear the tool changes and air hoses blowing in the distant past.
PTSD engaged
nothing like paying attention to every single sound with your hand quivering over the red stop button, hoping that you didnt fuck up with a tool clearance somehow
It's okay. Remember your safe space. Imagine the sound of the spindle returning and the table rapiding back home. You open the door and everything looks good. You measure the critical features, and everything comes back right in the middle of the tolerance. A warm feeling of calm washes over you.
I’m a machinist trapped in the body of an engineer. You’d think that would make me better at either engineering or machining but it actually just makes it impossible for me to have normal relationships or conversations.
Lmao I just left engineering to be a machinist, at least I have to talk to less people now
...so a technician?
@@D20Steelno, an engineer who spends way too much time hanging in the shop and watching hobby machinist TH-cam when I should be working.
Well add autism to this and you got my starter set 😂
The autism+engineer and or machinist combo goes wild@@Basement_CNC
Hottie: What do you do?
Machinist: I program robots.
Hottie: Oh can you fix my car?
Or us weird manual guys, we flip levers and pretend to be the robot.
Beep boop
We program tri-axial Cartesian robots that cut steel like butter, now let me tell you how many inches I could feed into you per minute.
@@ZappyOh oh yeah, I also know lots of mathematics..lol... 🤫
…”you’ll break a cheap tool worth a hundred bucks…or half your weeks salary” 🤣🤣🤣💀
I am a CNC integrator. I teach CNC machines how to talk to machinists. I think of ending my li#& several times every day. My clients think I'm on vacation for the past 5 months, but I'm actually recovering from a massive, massive, massive mental breakdown. I am currently hiring, btw.
Hope you get better soon
Machine tool repair mechanic here. I feel you
If that involves what I think it does, I’m sorry for you and I’m sorry people like me exist.
are you actually hiring? sounds kinda fun
I did that without even knowing what it was.
What did machinists ever do that was so great?
Answer: The entire industrial revolution, winning wars, and saving lives by making all of the critical parts to all of the equipment that brings you everything that you value.
Without machinists we are back to having black smiths and pulling plows with horses.
That's what.
Great depiction of our trade/suffering/illness.
Only vague humour will do. Any serious detail and you’ll lose their attention.
Stefan, the Godfather of precision machining. Well more like the Godwinter actually..
Explaining cnc machining is hard enough. now try to understand my strugle to explane my work as an EDM-Threading machinist xD. The puzzled looks on peoples faces when i tell them i cut metal with a wire and electricity. Amazing
Lol … mic drop !
Sparky machinist
BLASPHEMOUS WIZARDRY IS WHAT EDM IS
EDM threading machinist sure is a weird way to say wire edm.
@@Properuppercut damn, there seem to be many version of electronic dance music I never heard of!
Trained and experienced CNC- machinist here: Excellent video to bring it casually! Good example with the wood. A lot of makers are buying a cheap CNC machine or even modify an existing one to make it a CNC-Machine to cut some nice wooden pieces. But yea the ones I know respect me for knowing how to cut metal, because that's just an entire different story. Only thing lacking in this video is the importance of how to hold you workpiece. I mean it's easy to clamp a square block. That's mostly not the case though. Especially if you have an existing part and you are asked to 'just remove a bit of that surface'. :D
That’s true. Work holding really did deserve its own bit.
FIRST 10 SECONDS I have been called out, and thoroughly shooketh
Watched the rest and my spirt has left my body, the mutual problem solving part really hit home.
Ha! Exposed! XD
First 10 seconds is like: Okay... Spindle is still in one piece... Nothing moved... Machine didn't break in half yet... Alright let it go thennnnn... Okay no scary sounds we're good to go... I think
Going good
"Hi how are ya?"
* Near heart attack *
Literally had that thought process go through my mind every time I hit that stupid green button
@@simonbelmont6739the classic machinists lean, trying to find a comfortable position to watch the job and keep a hand on the feed hold
CNC machining is underrated profession, it's complicated, takes responsibility, whole day looking at machine and metal, low pay. Only thing that is worth is starting your own CNC workshop.
Is it really that low pay? I'm just an apprentice so I get $20/hour and free classes at community college but the guys who are teaching me at work make like $80 or $100/hour.
@@kugelblitz1557 whoa, that is some fair pay for the job. In Bosnia and also Slovenia it's poorly paid, Slovenia around 1500 euros a month for bit experienced guy.
Cnc machinists pay varies greatly. Don’t expect as an operator to make fuck all for money. Setup operator makes marginally more. Tool and die or mold makers make a little more, almost a decent wage depending on the shop. Programmers make a bit more. Idk man maybe I’m too jaded lol
@@icuric4077 we mostly make parts for cigarette machines and packaging machines, so we'll get the same orders of parts every few months when they make a new one . Most of the parts are 1-10x per job so they're expensive compared to ones where you make hundreds or thousands. My mentors have been at it since the eighties or nineties so they're pretty fast at it. That's the little prototrak/ez-trak machines though. I have no clue what our guy on the big Haas and Okuma machines makes. He handles more of the jobs that need fifty plus of the same part or ones with super tight tolerances.
@@nwfpv8681 are there that many different categories between operator and setup and programmer? At all the shops I've visited and the one I work at seem to have a system where one or two dudes are in charge of operating any given machine. That includes looking at the drawing, planning operations, finding stock, telling the office what to order if necessary, programming, setting up and running it.
Was a CNC apprentice for about 2 months and after all my hard work and knowledge I can proudly say im now a welder.
I can make just about anything, CNC Machinist specializing in prototype submarine parts and nuclear reactors. Only thing I can’t make is a living wage that allows me to go outside my 400sqft apartment.
Bro feel your pain machinist don't get paid enough. It's sad you can go work two part time jobs work 48 hours a week get two days off a bring home more money than working 48 hours at one job after taxes think bout that
That half you pay check comment was spot on lol. Love machining, but it doesn't pay so I have to move on to something that will allow me to buy my own machines and start my own machining business. The straw that broke the camels back was when I went to Subway to get food and they had a sign out that said, "Hiring now, part time/ full time, starting at 18$ an hour" Which is what I was making until a year ago. You would think a person that can hold tenths (.0001") tolerances on manual and cnc machines would get paid a decent amount more than a "sandwich artist" at a fast food joint.
Then you're machining the wrong material. Clamp some lettuce and bread and set the feedrate. :) Leave no sandwich out of spec!
That's what I'm saying.... Machining sounds fun, I was a cnc operator when I was younger (just a button pusher), and I would be interested in learning how to machine things, make things, but the pay I see on indeed is literally less than most service jobs. Like why????
I moved to Des Moines and they have a tool and die maker degree and I thought that would be interesting, but the pay I see for these jobs is like $25 at most, with $18-$20 being average.
I'm sorry but that's insulting to go to school for 2 years to learn a trade/skill and that's my endgame?
It's bizarre to me that the skills to literally make anything is only worth $20 an hour.
@@hhjhj393 yeah. The problem with this skilled trade is that it can be exported to countries where the workers get paid two dollars an hour, don't have safe working conditions, and don't get benefits. The worst part is, to them, two dollars an hour is probably good money.
As a guy living in South Africa I can attest, although safety and working conditions are up to par beginning pay is $4.50ph
@@d.v483 Is 4.50 considered decent pay relative to other Jobs there?
3:50 How my lathe buddy sees me when he comes over to see whats up and he says I need to go to church gets some faith and hit the go button.
Hey, never forget, something will happen, you just hope it's what you want. And don't forget your G50 on every tool, or you'll start in the middle of the program one morning and spin it to the moon, ask me how I know, got very lucky it was a collet not a chuck.
0:29 coordinate system is wrong
Hah yeah you're right. Swap the x and y.
it’s a left handed coordinate system
Stuck in bottom plane, he'll switch back soon enough
4:11 thanks for reminding me of *_that_* video 💀
Hahahaha every time I touch a lathe, man. Every time!
After seeing this comment I looked it up and now Im thinking about changing fields
Its a good lesson
But teribible for your mental wel being
If that was of any concern
Well that was fucking horrifying
Thanks!!
Hahaha i know the video from the comments alone.
I always find it funny when I try to explain to people what I do and they have no idea what it is. I tell them everything man made on this planet is thanks to a machinist from the food on your plate to the clothes on your back.
To be fair, a machinist would only last a few weeks without food too, so that's also kind of important
Thank you - I've saved this for the future when I eventually meet someone who cares enough to ask me about what I think about. 👍😎👍
Dead cold
i'm wasting time watching your cnc video, while my cnc ia running😂✌️🍺
*BANG ‼️ SCREEEEEECH ‼️*
😳…
Ist es nicht etwas spät gewesen?
@@faultboy what? i don`t get that..
Same
Somebody call the cops, 7 seconds in and I'm already being attacked
Hahahahahahahah "Somebody call the cops" got me rolling, it's like when everyone in the room agrees you're overreacting for something but you're sure you're not and they just don't know, otherwise they'd take your side
I'm 19, learning how to design properly, measure and run programs, and I found this really explanatory of what I get about cnc machining, kinda fun
I’m a Machinist with 30 plus years experience. A “CNC Machinist” is a small part of the occupation.
Wow
He was right about machinists
Dont forget the weird machinist puns and jokey gcode references.
" all right bye, I'm gonna G28"
Ahhh missed opportunity! I need to M30.
3:15 after 18 years at a black screen of a linux terminal i cannot tell you how interesting CAM software is 😂super satisfying too
But is it fun watching someone else use CAM?
Machinists will do anything but simulate gcode
It’s just one step too many. We have to draw the line somewhere.
The frig? I’d rather simulate and know there’s one less thing that can go wrong than run fast and loose and have to fix a setup or do tool setup again bc I was lazy and in too much of a hurry.
What are you talking about lol that's what you do when you're making real parts
@Dillybar777 Simulating or not simulating?
@@machsuper simulating! 2 minutes on verify saves hours of wasted machine time
Hehe spindle go brrr!
M3 S12000
G0 Z-1000
@@Guranga93 That migh hurt A LOT. lol
@@Guranga93 BA=0
@@Guranga93rofl
*sitting in office on SW*
Boom!
*Shts pants*
@@Guranga93 "This one trick that all g-code users don't want you to know!"
The This Old Tony cameo at the top of the recommended videos is too accurate LOL
4:19 I'm not a professional, but I must be SUPER lucky. I used a 3-axis CNC router, and when I put the bit in I didn't make it more than an inch. So there was this plunge cut that was over am inch. The machine goes for it, the collet gets stuck, and machine breaks. THANKFULLY it was just a popped 6A fuse, which you can get a pack of like 10 for $20 or something.
Oh boy if you think cam programming is boring just wait until you have to make those programs without cam software, punching in and making every code yourself because the machine is a big old piece of garbage ;)
Otherwise yes, this video is 100% right :D
The Old Way was the only way when I started in the industry.
@@gaiustacitus4242 It is still the only way for me, unless I wanna get going on one of the manual machines
Oh, its not boring, its just tedius as fuck.
And once you finally get going you'll have a casual heart rate of 195 with a death grip on the Cycle stop button and feed rate knob.
@@Celciusify I always thought the emergency stop button should not be mounted above the spindle (as on older CNCs like the Bridgeport Series I and II vertical mills). Why not have the shut-off attached to a safety harness or a pressure plate and have it triggered when the machinist ran away?
While running a much larger milling machine, I once had a part weighing over 300 pounds tear loose and spin around the boring bar. It was only a matter of time before the boring bar gave way. The last place I wanted to be was anywhere near that machine, but that's where the power cutoff was located.
@@Erik_Blomgren what model of machine is that if I may ask?
yeah when i was working on a CNC punch i broke one of the dies because the guy setting up the triangular punch & die misaligned them by 180 degrees making it go bang like a shotgun, the die was worth 1 months worth of my income, scariest thing that happened to me ngl
Starting as a cnc master machinist (the teacher to cnc apprentices) next month and cant wait. CNC machining is totally awesome.
8 seconds in and I feel personally attacked. I say as I watch this while my machine runs
As an engineer I pride myself on going to my machinists with only the most deranged and unreasonable machining tasks.
>Yes, can I get this 1 foot alumina (not -um) tube cut in half... Lengthwise?
>Thanks, yes. Tomorrow would be great!
😠
@@machsuper do you really want the same "can I get this broken bolt extracted?" Jobs every day?
Me trying to casually explain my 6 axis grinder (X,Y,Z,A,B,Y2) 😴
“Yesn’t” 😂
I crashed the 5-acie machine last month and I still haven't recovered. I wake up in the middle of the night thinking about it 😅
Ohhh no no noo
You will live, the world may never be the same, but the world WILL keep turning. Hang in there.
You never forget your first real crash... ramming a 40mm diameter boring bar into the spindle because you were new and distracted by people talking to you was a very fun experience 😂
What is the only thing 2 machinists can agree on?
That the third machinist is doing it wrong.
Also applies to welders, electricians, plumbers, framers, masons, drywallers, and probably about 50 other trades.
Umm I’m a Mason but my job title is machinist.
“So what do you do for work?”
Its at this point I usually pause and take a breath before saying “its hard to explain”
thousand yard stare 4:38
At my workplace we own a 3 axis CNC Machine for simple Metal working and mainly carving custom curcuit boards from a copper sheeted PCB plate.
I can HEAVILY relate to the part where you're about to press "start" and your past 15 minutes of setting up the machine flashes before your eyes looking for a mistake you could've made.
2:38 is that the drawing milhouses dad does of dignity?
Me: I work in tool & die"
Them: oh what colors do you dye screw drivers?
CNC machinist in QLD Australia, you hit the nail on the head, explaining what we do I usually say "I make chips"
this is NOT casually explained
Sorry sir, I'll be more serious about casually explaining correctly next time.
"we don't need casually explained, we have casually explained at home" .... that or "when you order casually explained from wish"
Haha oh man, I've been poorly explaining machining for over 2 decades, well done my guy.
I do wish hollywood had more focus on manufacturing, I've watched a ton of your videos I had no idea you were a machinist.
I don't know if you've seen it, but MTDCNC is doing a machine shop rescue series, they're on season 2. Full disclosure I do contract video work for them, the series is one reason I wanted in.
I feel attacked and require a coffee and a safe space
Im a welder that has alot of manual machining experience. I liked this video
Bruh, I got called out in the first ten seconds.
Haha casual This old Tony thumbnail in the background 3:23
Hahaha yeah he's pretty good hey?
@@machsuper Yeah he is the Goat, great stuff on there. You too by the way, keep up it up!
@@machsuper Hey! From which channel is the 3rd thumbnail (the rocket engine) ?
@@MrLP10o th-cam.com/video/nP9OaYUjvdE/w-d-xo.html
Nice video dude! You should make more like this!!!!
2:35 did not expect such an obscure simpsons reference lol
Hahaha I’m so glad you got it
This is spot on lol. Especially the part where you said people think cnc machines are like 3d printers.
I’m a CNC grinder and that pause before pressing Go is so real! Stomach does a flip with every G0 on a new program without a slow federate though XD
Oh man, the anxiety of smashing a CNC grinder must be intense!
in my first job as a cnc operator/programmer i forgot to had the tool compensation on the program, the result was a dead spindle and a bent linear rail, i was so ashamed that i quit on the spot that moment is carved in my mind with so much detail that if measured properly it could attain RA 0.3 finish roughness
I saved this video to share with people knowing that I'll probably never put in the effort to look it back up and share it. Absolutely hilarious 🤣🤣
Yes give me free views 😄
@@machsuper I'm so "antisocial" I don't like using T9 to text on my non-touchscreen brick phone, so sharing videos takes on a whoooole new meaning 🤣 I'll do it for you though buddy keep on keepin on!!
That opening has me like a slap in the face because I'm guilty of it. Currently running my horizontal while drilling some stainless at the moment. The rest of this video just hasn't he called out. Ya bastard 😅
This is incredibly accurate. The fear never goes away.
That’s what I needed today going into my projects! 🎉
I am not even 10 seconds in and i'm mad xD absolute legend
I usually just say that i cut things out of metal and they sort of kinda maybe understand.
Oh my god you FINALLY put it into words
Watching this at work while running a 3-axis Haas mill. The algorithm knows.
There was that one machinist movie with Christian Bale, who lost like a whole swarf-bucket worth of weight for the role of a machinist, and it showed some other machinists doing machinist things. And then one of the machinists got all messed up in a machine. And then Christian Bale's machinist character kinda went way off the deep end or something?
Can't think of the title but, was pretty cool I guess.
Machinist from germany here 👋🏻
Thats the absolut worst… you double an triple check everything and can never be safe that everything goes like you think.
And the worst of all no matter how experienced you are…. You know in the next 5 years it is possible that a crash can happen… and it probably will happen… i f***ing love it
An ultra-precision metal sculptor who trains robots to do his job. And every time they do something wrong, it's your fault and you lose money.
Well, if you’re starting an apprenticeship and you’re new to CAD software and cam software it’s actually very interesting to me.
But I can see how it bore the hell out of my trainer sometimes 😂
but I’ve had so much fun learning all this stuff like I really love CNC and the manual too and surface grinding .
We do all milling pretty much at the tool and dye shop I’m at.
The only time we turn that lathe on is to face and turn some pillars for a mold or do a one off.
We do a lot of mold fixing and replacing pins and things like that from machines on the other side where the mold people are that do that boring button pushing crap 😂
But truly, I love learning about the tooling, tool paths and the speeds and feeds and all of that stuff. I’ve really I picked the perfect career to start. I love it!
I really do enjoy what I do !
And I think that’s important to a healthier lifestyle .
And it only took a year and a half of college, which is awesome because I don’t owe much money.
it took me a while to find the shop that I wanted to start my apprenticeship at this is the third shop, but I finally found the one that I love with the right trainers that are patient and actually know how to teach.
I’m blessed with this shop. It’s a very good shop. It’s not huge. It’s a smaller shop, but it has great trainers constant work and a great environment
This video is funny.
Reminded me of me in some ways and reminded me a lot of some of the people at my shop 😂
0:02 so I'm not allowed to be here? Or do I count as a machinist? I study Mechatronics Robotics at a university of applied sciences and I have had a few courses on manufacturing engineering and have used a cnc mill once. Still watching this video because why not.
You can watch it but you definitely should not call yourself a machinist. Maybe run that CNC a few dozen more times at least.
@@korbynnull7666 I know lol, it wasn't meant seriously
I went to school for Prototype and Design: I played with a lot of "toys": from table saws to mills to vacuum formers to lathes... the only tool you're not trained in is how to forge something with hammer (I ironicly do exactly that as a hobby).
I never took the classes on cnc coding, but I know the horror of a broken tool and a what happens when you mess up zeros... neither are a fun day.
Oh yeah, that prayer before the machine starts 😂
One movie that doesn't do a half bad job at showing machining is the first minute of Chort Circuit. But then again it's only like a minute, you see a mill doing its thing, you see the controller for a second, You see a lathe and that's it.
Not me sitting at a machine waiting as fast as I can
I'm a CNC Machinist all the way from Brazil. (For those of you guys that just discovered CNC Machines, now you discovered a new country also). Worked with Lathes first and now with mills, and if i break a tool it's usually the value of my monthly income. And no, i don't need to pay their value in money, i just pay in mental health like a good machinist.
thats perfect! (machinist for 25+ years)
Fuck, I'd say us pilots need a video like this, but we got a 4 part stop motion lego series, so I cant bitch.
The Casually explained fit so damn well
Yeah you've had your turn! Machinists need some help looking cool to the world haha
I hate how accurate this is
I have a feeling he hates 3D printers
I do and I don’t.
2:21 3D printing hobbyist here, and this applies to me too
That is accurate, and I second it
Way better joke for the intro would have been that you're a G code developer, but you could always try being a G spot developer
I feel attacked. I mean you're absolutely right... on all accounts... but still...
I hope i never have to see another CNC machine in my life lmao
No CNC machines, just Jelly Fish Machines?
@@machsuper LOL
Close your eyes and imagine the sound of you catastrophically crashing your 9-axis CNC mill along with your hopes, dreams, and career.
I thought this was the casually explained TH-cam channel, the other guy who uses this style already
The best part was working feet away from 3 other guys and only saying hi and bye.
As a machinist, I can see how confusing i can be when describing machining. I will now just tell people I control robots the size of an 1 bedroom apartment that cuts metal with a laser.
0:29 he out here doing that Face 6 machining with that coordinate sysyem.
I program CNCs, no not the gcode, I make the firmware and all the plc crap so machinists can crash my toys
Thank you for your sacrifice. 🍻
I should add this video to my company training material
This is high priority curriculum for any newbie. :D
I always touch off on the top of the part, set the offset, but then I add .100 in the z-axis to it before I press the start button. Single step it in and then, if it looks like a .100 above the top of the piece, it should be fine!
I may have laughed a little too hard at the problem solving bit of this video 😂😂😂
Very funny ^^ I also love casually explained
i was sitting here for a good minute staring at the title and thumbnail, wondering what the hell a machine had to do with consensual non-consent
I was sitting here for a good minute baked, thinking about your comment then gradually laughing louder and falling in love with your comment.
phenomenal love it! thanks for giving a basic rundown.... totally not sending this to all my friends
Everything is very precisely and clearly described👌👍
This one hit close to home.
A colleague of mine forgot to enter the drill bit length in his program so the machine slammed the drill into the table. Who had just been made perfectly flat.
He also came in drunk once from the night before, got sent home, forgot about the whole interaction and showed up again later.
Man I’m 17 and I already fit the description XD. This shit is fun tho
Non machinists will never know the joy of running a first off and just as the tool comes into contact with the material someone else in the shop drops something with a loud bang. They did make a movie about machinists, The Machinist, it makes us look cools and normal
Usually when you tell people you are a "machinist" they think you do a lot of sewing.