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Bama Believer said:
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That was one thing I could not understand in the Navy, a machinist mate repaired equipment and a machinery repairman operated lathes and associated equipment. I am more the big hammer type ... 25 thousandths don't mean shit to me in a room this large. I have no touch at all. I went to c school class on lathe operations and it was all I could do to stay within our tolerance of +/-10 thousandths.

One of my best buddies was a tool and die maker at Snap-On(I put his car for sale in the Thrifty Nickel). Once while we were working on a new robot and I asked him to take an 1/8" off of a shoulder on the arm key and that was such a large number he panicked and asked me if I could force it. I pulled out a sawed off sledge hammer and he was begging me to let him take that key to the machine shop instead of getting us both fired. Damn key fit and he never asked me if I could force anything again.
 
batchaps4me said:
That was one thing I could not understand in the Navy, a machinist mate repaired equipment and a machinery repairman operated lathes and associated equipment. I am more the big hammer type ... 25 thousandths don't mean shit to me in a room this large. I have no touch at all. I went to c school class on lathe operations and it was all I could do to stay within our tolerance of +/-10 thousandths.

One of my best buddies was a tool and die maker at Snap-On(I put his car for sale in the Thrifty Nickel). Once while we were working on a new robot and I asked him to take an 1/8" off of a shoulder on the arm key and that was such a large number he panicked and asked me if I could force it. I pulled out a sawed off sledge hammer and he was begging me to let him take that key to the machine shop instead of getting us both fired. Damn key fit and he never asked me if I could force anything again.
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I became a machinist due to an incident in the Navy,, I was a radioman, during my recruitment, I wanted to be an electronics tech,, but the recruiter told me that there were no open billets for ET's, but an RM could lead into electronics,, bahahaha,, I bit, anyway,,
I had a friend who was an HT, I also was responsible for PM on a weatherdeck fire station.. My HT friend told me to bring the brass nozzle to the HT shop and we'd put it in a lathe and polish it up.. that was the first time I ever saw a lathe, and it impressed me so much,, that I went to trade school for Machinist when I got out of the navy,,
 
batchaps4me said:
That was one thing I could not understand in the Navy, a machinist mate repaired equipment and a machinery repairman operated lathes and associated equipment. I am more the big hammer type ... 25 thousandths don't mean shit to me in a room this large. I have no touch at all. I went to c school class on lathe operations and it was all I could do to stay within our tolerance of +/-10 thousandths.

One of my best buddies was a tool and die maker at Snap-On(I put his car for sale in the Thrifty Nickel). Once while we were working on a new robot and I asked him to take an 1/8" off of a shoulder on the arm key and that was such a large number he panicked and asked me if I could force it. I pulled out a sawed off sledge hammer and he was begging me to let him take that key to the machine shop instead of getting us both fired. Damn key fit and he never asked me if I could force anything again.
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If all else fails....get a bigger hammer. If it breaks, it needed to be replaced anyway.
 
I had a sign made at work that said "If you want it bad, you will get it bad. The worse you want it, the worse it will be."
 
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