Machinist School makes Surgical Equipment

Johnny Gutierrez makes Surgical Equipment Holders. Straight bars of metal are drilled at the ends, then bent to an accurate size.  Layout with Layout Dye comes first.

well ....... the layout dye come first, right after making the plans!

Good Job Johnny. "Johnny's Surgical Equipment Shop"

Machinist School - Modern Tool Room

 

This is the tool room since it has be cleaned and painted.

It has new aluminum counter tops from 1/8 aluminum /diamond-pattern floor plate.

 

 

 

This is from further back in the shop, lookig in.

When there are no windows, just put up blinds with pictures-of-windows behind the blinds.

Add plants and room fresheners to make it more like a bathroom or doctor's office.

Machinist School - Monster Clay.... another Nate says

If you like sculpting, making molds, or creating strange faces .... here's a new stuff    .... Monster Clay.
Click >>>>>>>>>>>>>> Here >>>>>> for Monster Clay

a "sulfur free oil based elastic clay"


I found this stuff recently am am really impressed by it's usefulness for sculpting. If you heat it it liquefies, freezing hardens it, it is flammable but it doesn't leave the waxy residue on hands when working with it.

From,
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Machinist School ..... according to Nate

Screenshot of a simulation of my first 4 axis program, it's nearly ready to go out on the floor for production. We're still waiting on a custom carbide key-cutter. I programmed some profiling passes with a 1/64" ball nose end mill, which turned out to be pretty cool. It has as little as .0005" step-over in some places :D This software is great, dry runs are becoming a thing of the past.

Yay Nate!   ..... and Shawn says: Hey I found a chemical etching pen sold by enco I thought u might like it leaves back markings on a lot of different metals for like $12. The enco model # is 308-0495 if u wanna look into it


Woo-Hoo!

Machinist School - Graduate Nate Langford says:

This is what we're making at work right now. It's the slide for a Wilson .45 pistol; we're doing the standard size and compact. There's a lot of operations involved, but that just makes it more interesting .
We're just making the slides and frames for the standard size and the compact version of the .45 and 9mm 1911. I'm not sure which long slides you're talking about. After seeing what kind of tolerances we keep on these parts, I can see why they're expensive. Our wire EDM machine is cutting out the profiles for the firing selectors on AR-15's. Fun stuff :D http://wilsoncombat.com/new/handgun-classic.asp

Machinist School - The Duck and the Owl

Here it is at last, the duck and the owl here at the Machinist School.
We make owls with the MakerBot.
Just remember:
If people spent more time thinking about ducks,
They'd spend less time thinking about other things.
                         - Rod's Duck Farm motto

Machinist School - Radial Arm Drill

This is a good picture of a Radial Arm Drill. Perhaps you notice the duck in the lower right corner of the picture ..... it has a red bill. Some people just call it a squirt bottle. Whatever it is, you get an idea of size. The top of the machine says "American Hole Wizard".
Radial Arm Drill Presses use polar instead of cartesian coordinates. Some people say they aare cool machines ..... because they are polar?

Machinist School - Dovetail Attachment

Here's a nice type of double jointed attachment for an undicator with dovetail connections.
The Moore company made this particular style. There's a scew that goes through the center hole to tighten the indicator to the dovetail.

Machinist School - Here's a Large Mill

Here you see Angle Plates bolted to the floor and Cassandra rides the head of the Giddings mill. You can work on some very large parts with this machine. Strangely enough, you can achieve very high accuracy because you can run a dial indicator along a 10 foot edge. A thousandth of an inch over 10 feet is only a ten-thousandth per foot or about 8 millionth's per inch!

Machinist School - Dave Renfro: Table made from a sheet of plywood

At the Dave Mows Grass blog, alumni brother Dave posts the above picture (Yay!!!)  with no plans (grrrrrr!).

But .............. the internet saves the day!!!

Here's a link to some plans using 3/4" plywood:

Click Here >>>>How to make a Picnic Table Plans



Machinist School - Otis The Owl Mascot



Cassidy Wooten provided the colored view of the NTI Mascot.

The moon and the stars are included. So if you want the owl and the moon and the stars, THIS is the picture! Three cheers for Hooters!

Hoot, Hoot, Hoot!

Machinist School - Pay

The Big Money in machining is in over-time. That's what helps your pay check. To earn lots of dollars takes lots of hours. There-in lies the question, "Do you want to machine for lots of hours?"

At $7.50 an hour, you're talking about $15,000 a year for your first 40 hours.
After 40 hours, there is over-time at $11.25 an hour. Therefore, the second 40 hours pays $22,500 a year.

So if you work 80 hours a week at a base pay of $7.50, you'll make $37,500 a year. That's a lot of dollars!

Machinist School - Hand Sanitizer

A GREAT CUTTING FLUID
Hand sanitizer is a similar price to cutting oil.
It sticks to the part, it sticks to the cutter.
Because it evaporates so fast, it is a nice coolant.

Because it contains ethyl alcohol, the MSDS sheet is fairly surprising.
(Get it on your hand = OK ...... get it on your arm = wash it off immediately)

BUT .... if it accidentally got on the part, maybe it would be OK?

Keep it on your mill and sanitize you hands!!!!

Machinist School - Wizards

The Latest Machine Shop Wizards of the World:

Jonathan - Precision Machining, 1st Place
Shawn - CNC Milling, 2nd Place
Alex - CNC Lathe, 3rd place

The SkillsUSA Competitions for the State of Arkansas were based in Hot Springs, Arkansas on April 10, 2012. Congratulations Guys!!!

Machinist School - Here at Hooters

We have a new mascot .... the owl is reported to be named "Otis".
Just remember, Hooters RULE .......... with a 25 foot Lufkin tape measure!