11-14-2012, 01:34 PM
chopper wrote:
Requiring someone to know how to code CNC, mic out pieces and set up a lathe correctly before you'll give them $12 an hour seems like an absurdity.
I agree. I made more than that in '88. As a full Journeyman Machinist I never once found myself unable to find work.
I usually had at least two wanting to hire everytime I was looking to change companies. I spent over 20 years at the
last company I worked for. There really aren't that many people that I know that I would consider as an all round
Journeyman Machinist but I do know several. I made $8/hr working part-time while in Tech school in the early 80's.
A Machinist needs excellent math skills, good eyes, steady hands, patience, years of training on various machines
and boatload of common sense.
Someone mentioned Conversational programming, there's still loads of CNC machine tools out there that use
G-Codes for programming. Heidenhain is one one the easiest to program controls out there is when it comes
Conversational programming. ProtoTrak is also an easy one for small machines, mostly on retrofit machines.
Grateful11