Machining

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Machining

• By Corey LaBarge

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Machining Benefits

• Opens many doors
• Various engineering fields such as
• Industrial Engineering
• Manufacturing Engineering
• Computer Engineering
• Mechanical Engineering

• Variety of jobs
• Government
• Hospitals
• Factories
• Salaries
• From upper 30,000 to upper 40,000.
• Easy advancement

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Machining Benefits

• High in demand
• Hard to find valuable employees
• Jobs across the nation
• If your good, youve got it.
• Controlled Climate
• Clean Environment

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Projects

• Projects require patience and creativity.
• Dont give up until its over with.

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Projects

• Blueprints
• Must know how to read them
• most important key to starting a project

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Projects

• Great starter projects
• C-clamp
• Hammer
• V-blocks
• Parallels
• 1-2-3 Blocks
• all projects demonstrate use of machinery.

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Projects

• Advanced Projects include
• Air engine
• Clock
• Vice

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Projects

• Other advanced projects
• Ferris Wheel
• Flashlight
• Air Cylinder

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Equipment and Tools

• Machinists use a variety of tools
• They must know their options
• Safety is the MOST important key to machining
• A select few of the tools and machines used are

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Equipment- Machines

• Lathes
• Turn Metal to form an object of any desired shape
• Drill Holes in the end of a piece of stock
• Make threads
• provide good finishes

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Equipment- Machines

• Mills
• Drills holes in both square and round stock
• Mills the top of stock
• Uses the end mill to mill from the side
• can do work from several different angles
• Variety of attachments- Vice, head, collets, etc
• Cuts grooves
• provides a descent finish

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Equipment- Machines
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Equipment- Machines

• Bandsaw
• cut bigger pieces of stock
• not a finishing machine
• rough cuts

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Equipment- Machines

• Surface grinder
• A finishing machine
• provides a variety of finishes depending on the
  grinding wheel
• Only take off two thousandths of an inch

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Equipment- Machines

• Wheel Grinder
• removes burrs from stock
• grind down stock and screws

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Equipment- Tools
Tap Die
Center Finder Edge Finder
Circular vice
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Equipment- Tools
Starter Bit
Dial Indicator
End Mill
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Machining

• Become a good critical thinker
• Learn patience
• most important of all, enjoy what you do.