You might be a machinist if

[Glenn]

From the opening page of IForgeIron.com

You Might be a Machinist if - - -

001 If you automatically spit first & cuss later
003 If you think "mirror" is a finish.
015 If you use a sewing needle as a personal surgical tool on a regular basis.

030 If a

[habu68]

if you ever made a 1/4 20 screw because it was quicker than going to the hardware store.

[Jim Pennock]

If you're building a deck and you write all the tape measurements down in decimals, to the third place. My brother-in-law kinda gave me a weird look. Jim

[HWooldridge]

If you think .001 is an easy tolerance to hold.

[Swamptroll]

if when you say tenths you mean tenths of .001 not tenths of an inch

[irnsrgn]

If you buy plain cigarette papers to shim with or to polish with.

[metalmaster1766]

if you think in terms of inches per minute and feet per minute instead of miles per hour

[metalmaster1766]

you wash your hands before you use the restroom instead of after

[gerald]

If the carpet in the house sparkles from tracked in chips.

[Dave Shepard]

If you beat your carpenter friend senseless because he gave you a measurement that ended in"..and a heavy eighth". I just cut stuff an extra couple inches long when someone does that to me. I tell them sorry, I don't know how to use those big numbers.


Dave

[irnsrgn]

if a customer comes in holds his finger X distance apart and you grab your measuring tool to measure between his fingers, all custom ordered metal sales are final.

[Tyler Murch]

. . .if someone asks you for your ID, and you wonder "inside diameter???".

[facium]

if an RCH is a "loose" tolerance your a machinist.
if an RCH is a hammer tap away your a blacksmith
if you don't know what an RCH is your an engineer

[triw]

you might be a machinist if you can't put a 1/2" hole in 1/2" bar stock (a blacksmith can).

[ThomasPowers]

I picked up a trashed micrometer at the fleamarket for $1 once just so I could use it as a welding clamp when machinist friends drop by---they gibber so nicely...

[John B]

You might be a machinist if it takes you longer than a smith takes to put a square tapered hole in a bar

You might be a machinist if you use a hacksaw to put a slit in to make a Celtic / Fredrickson cross, fork end, or animal head etc when it would be more appropriate / economical / and quicker to slit it with a hot chisel/cutter

[acoop101]

if an RCH is a "loose" tolerance your a machinist.
if an RCH is a hammer tap away your a blacksmith
if you don't know what an RCH is your an engineer

I guess I'm an engineer so please tell me what RCH is:D, The silly part is that I'm in school right now to become an industrial tech engineer.

[mcostello]

The width of a red hair.

[Trick]

If, "the color of straw", has nothing to do with hay.:)

[Frosty]

I picked up a trashed micrometer at the fleamarket for $1 once just so I could use it as a welding clamp when machinist friends drop by---they gibber so nicely...

That's just mean.

It's a pleasure to know you. Father was a metal spinner and machinist, I would've loved to see the look on his face.

Frosty