Ignoramus13150 fired this volley in
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What sort of stuff do you make Lloyd?


....tools and machinery for manufacturing fireworks.

Much of what I do is simple spindle turning work, but one of the things
the CNC machine excels at is doing simple profiled spindles with the work
in the mill's spindle and the tools hard-mounted to the table.

Another thing for which the machine is indispensible is drilling and
boring "cavity plates" for pressing work. When one must drill (on
accurate centers) and bore 144 holes in a plate, and have them all align
well with 144 pins in another plate, not much else will do. What is a
three day job by hand (and always seems to have one "misfit" pin) is
about a two hour job on the R2E4.

LLoyd