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A rhetorical question
I have a casual acquaintance who I respect for one of his areas of
expertice. Besides that knowlege, he claims to have been "a machinist for decades". He's of retirement age now. Recently, he instructed a raw-beginner HSM on how to turn long tapers using the compound and frequent re-chucking, and using a file for dressing up the jaggies. When I suggested turning between centers and offsetting the tailstock, he bristled, saying that it was "impossible" to ever get the tailstock back on center again. Later he made a comment to another fellow allowing that "owning a lathe and a mill would only be a dream for me." Can I presume this guy is NOT "a machinist"? G Or is it possible that production-floor machine _operators_ call themselves that? LLoyd |
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