Got a job for only being out of school about a month!
Anyway it's at lgs technologies in Lancaster tx running/ programming cnc machines
So ready to get some real money coming in again.
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Got a job for only being out of school about a month!
Anyway it's at lgs technologies in Lancaster tx running/ programming cnc machines
So ready to get some real money coming in again.
Congrats man! Sounds like fun
I used to do the same thing. A good machinist will never be out if work!
Pretty excited, I'm gonna be trained on water jets, cnc routers, laser cutter/ etchers
But starting out on cnc mills/ lathes and wire edm
Me too. I loved it, but the economy took a dump and I had to make a choice. I'm making twice as much now and I like my job, but I definitely miss being a machinist.Quote:
Originally Posted by jansen
That is awesome Congrats!
In Mississippi there's a machine shop on every corner and oilfield based fishing and rental businesses to supply them with work. The mills are in my opinion the most fun to operate. If you get a chance to learn anything on a manual machine you better jump on the opportunity! Manual machinist are real machinist!Quote:
Originally Posted by bstill
In school we had to Learn manual mills and lathes and make parts to spec before we even touched a cnc machine, I prefer them more. Wouldn't mind owning a set of Manual machines sometime soon
I could run every machine in the shop. Surface grinders, heal(sp) grinders, manual mills, lathes, all the cnc equipment... I ran a mori seiki hi-cell 23 II, four axis lathe with live tooling and a magazine in back, which equaled 20+ tools at any given time. I ran that for three years and then ran a Fadal vmc 4020 for two years. Both machines were awesome and were very ridged so you could make some heavy cuts. We didn't use a computer to write the program, we did it manually on the machine. We also had a Haas lathe which was a POS. Something was always breaking on it. Haas mills are great, but their lathes, at least that model, suck.
That's all I learned on was haas and one fadal mill
Went in for my interview and hands on test and had a cnc mill infront of me with farnuc controls and I was totally lost, but I figured it out after a crash corse from the floor man
Ain't nothing to it, just keep ya head out ya ass, measure twice cut once, don't be afraid to ask questions, and take your time and do things right. Good luck and congratulations.
Haas controls are very similar to fanuc. Once you figure out fanuc, it's actually very easy to program. I ran a mazack at a different job once. It was awful. I did not like it at all.
We programed the lathes using a can cycle. G71 for turning in the z-axis and G72 for facing in the x-axis.
Congrats Todd!
Awesome news! Now you need to get to making all of us some custom rims and shiz!
Sweet deal man! Congrats!
This would be cool to know.Quote:
Originally Posted by T-Stark
congrats on the job. Machinist field is what I've been in since 1980. I have been a CNC programmer and developer since 1990. If you ever have a question about it give me a hollar. I've run all kinds of machines and then went into a long time stent of the desktop side of the job. I work at Bell Helicopter in Grand Prairie, they take really good care of us there.
Thanks man! I applied there but no luck, don't blame them I don't have ANY experience besides school. But yeah I'm excited about it I'm ready to get my foot in the door