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Metalworking (rec.crafts.metalworking) Discuss various aspects of working with metal, such as machining, welding, metal joining, screwing, casting, hardening/tempering, blacksmithing/forging, spinning and hammer work, sheet metal work. |
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Machining work in Fort Worth
I got this message today in answer to an inquiry about used machinery.
If anyone is interested email me directly & I'll give you the email address. Rex B "We're a mid-size precision machine shop in north Fort Worth, near NE 28th St and Sylvania st. We're actually pretty desperate to hire somebody who knows how to work and program a lathe if you are looking for work or know anybody who knows how to use a lathe and is looking for work. Leslie" |
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"We're a mid-size precision machine shop in north Fort Worth, near NE 28th St and Sylvania st. We're actually pretty desperate to hire somebody who knows how to work and program a lathe if you are looking for work or know anybody who knows how to use a lathe and is looking for work. Leslie" snip ======================= The vise we have collectively put our hand into, and slowly tightened is now beginning to hurt. From the dialog in these newsgroups, conversations with many former and retired machinists, and personal experience, I have been daunted by how little regard the suits and average citizens have for the critical importance of this occupation cluster and the considerable investment of time and money required to reach just the beginning journeyman level of competency. [Think 2,500$ and up for personal tools just to start.] My concern is greatly increased by the total lack of any young people in the machine shops and machining areas of employers I have visited in our service area. While this may not apply to the shop needing a CNC lathe operator, it is entirely rational for students with the foundational skills, characteristics, and abilities required for success in the CNC and manual machining areas to apply their talents in another occupational niche, given the instability of employment, obsolete and poorly maintained equipment, poor working conditions, low status, high cost of entry, and decreasing opportunities for employment and advancement common in this field. The unavailability of domestic competent and qualified machinists will rapidly get worse as the existing personnel retire or die, taking with them 200 years of experience, practical knowledge, and techniques. The personnel problem is rapidly being compounded and exacerbated by the increasing reluctance of the foreign producers [there are almost no domestic producers] of machine tools, consumable tooling and materials to accept the fiat currency of American dollars as payment for their products. This is manifested in the drop of about 1/3 in the value of the dollar, qua the Euro in less than 2 years. A debacle is clearly looming for the American economy when we can no longer domestically produce and cannot afford to purchase from foreign suppliers. Even our supply of food is questionable. In 2005 or 2006, the USA will become a net importer of food for the first time. Collectively, we have made this bed, and collectively we will lie in it. |
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