On 07/12/2010 10:22 AM, SSM wrote:
On Jul 12, 11:45 am, "Steve wrote:
I also agree, but we have deindustrialized our economy. Our labor is simply too expensive to be competitive with the Chinese. What
you do still see is CNC everywhere there is machining. The manual model shops and short run ma& pa operations are long gone. They
only exist with the hobbiest and we are dying out as well. Just look at this NG. What do we have, 2 dozen regulars left? If you
survey those, I'll bet there are not many below the age of 60. I'll be 66 this Wed.
Steve

Not so quick there, binky...

My day job is within a major, very commonly known company, working in
a Tool and Model Shop. (They like to refer to it as Rapid Prototyping,
here)
While deeply ensconced in CNC, there is almost as much done manually,
and those of us here are here because we have skills in both.
My night job, at home, is 95% manual machining, too. And I'm not over
45, yet. I just don't post much, here, because the signal to nose
ratio is in the "stupid" zone...

When I'm not falling to the temptation to respond to the political posts
I try to post my own metalworking projects, even when they're pretty
trivial, just to get the SNR up.

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