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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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...

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

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.

The width of a red hair.

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

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