Right now its still probably Killing Time and Space by Nekrogoblikon. Goblins, cosmic history, and a banjo? In my metal? Helllll yeah brother.

You’re missing the forest for the trees.

Mainstream appeal requires certain sacrifices, and message is one of the first things on the block. Representation on that scale requires backroom assurances that do not allow the system to be rebuked in the way you are looking to see. Sure, you can have outspoken individuals like Dave grohl or Tom Morello making their opinions known, but the Foo Fighters will still play in Israel if the paycheck is big enough. Doesn’t matter how much blood is under the stage, money talks.

Get into the punk/folk scene.

Wingnut Dishwashers Union

Pat the Bunny

Daze N Days

The Orphans

Really anything in this genre. You’d be surprised at the observations made by people living on the streets or just generally down on their luck.

Depends on if I could afford to own a scrapyard/pick and pull first. As a welder and machinist, thats basically a playground for me. If I ain’t working, ill still be making. Otherwise, yes. I don’t spend much now as it is, but growing my own weed would probably drop me below 65% by itself.

AKA the Ted Faro Scenario

Actually the stud and locknut din look spot on for what I’m working with. I haven’t seen anything with a picture of the mating surface but it could be what I’m looking for

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Did you also see “SLUTS”?

You can’t say Google like that or the Google will just read it and list it on Google.

Next time try using periods between letters to trick the Google. Like this

G.o.o.g.l.e.

The Google can’t see it when you type it like that.

If I have cash, I’ll give $5 or $10. Sometimes I don’t have cash, and I’ll just say that. Sometimes I have a spare smoke or soda or whatever and I’ll offer one of those instead. I have a union job and few expenses, so I’m in a position to be generous.

Agreed. My last day of HS was June 12, standard school year schedule. 2nd week of August to 2nd week of June.

It’s very hard to tell with this guy, probably because he’s an engineer first and the owner second. I grew up around a bunch of gas and electrical engineers, so it’s not too terrible for me. Some of the other guys in the shop very much struggle with communicating with him though, which is understandable if you don’t speak engineer.

Sometimes I throw out a tooling suggestion and he shoots it down immediately. Today, I pitched getting a Darex auto tool sharpener and he’s all aboard as soon as I told him the local coast guard base had one. I never really know how he’s going to react to things lol

Total bore is a little over 4.5, so I had a ton of material left to correct the hole. Biggest struggle was keeping the tool pressure low so the drill didn’t spin in the tailstock. Morse taper is all chewed up, which was a nasty little surprise for me. Got’r’done tho

Next trick: figure out how to mount a 2.5 inch boring bar on a turret with only a 1.25 ledge on it. Im trying to talk the owner into fabbing a holder in house.

Also we found out the morse taper in the tail stock is all chewed up so we’re going to look for a morse reamer to correct the tailstock.

This job is certainly tightening up my machinist chops. Im already looking forward to tig work where my tolerance is like +/- .030 lmaoo

Success! Flipped it around and started a couple inches with a stubby 3/4, then I got an extremely stout 1 3/4 to redrill the hole nice and straight. Once the first couple inches were started it was rigid enough to follow its own hole all the way back through.

Even worse, It’s actually two parts the owner insists on doing together and parting later. Could have done two 5 inch parts but noooo, that might have been easy. Lol

Further, the center of stock on the backside is floating in air. It’s a 9/16 hole that’s a bit off-center, but not enough to put the true center in the wall.

I’ll try flipping around the part and see if I have a boring bar small enough to true most of the hole from that end. Im confident in my original center, it just seems to have wandered a bit through the material.

Im not entirely sure that tailstock is aligned just right but the owner is riding me to produce since my first two weeks have been mostly restoring the equipment they have and addressing what can be fixed. The Szim lathe really only needed some minor leveling and some oil, but I put a lockout on the other lathe after I opened up the head and found a bunch of chipped gears. The szim has also definitely been crashed at least once but everything seems to be rigid and true as far as I can tell.

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Not ultra critical at this stage. It’s basically a bushing for a bushing. It gets turned down on the OD for an interference fit on an existing bored hole and the ID just needs to be blasted out to a little over 4 and a half, then it gets welded in place and final line bored later.

I’ve never even heard of a gun drill but hot damn if that doesn’t sound like the perfect pilot hole tool. Honestly I’m trying my best to make due with what the shop already has while recommending tools I’ve used before in machining. Last place I was at we had this wicked set of spade drills from like half inch all the way up to 3 inches and change that would tear through metal like butter.

At this shop, their last machinist quit 7 or 8 years ago and mostly I get blank looks when I ask if they have x or y tool/insert/tool holder. The owner is willing to buy new tooling but I’ve never been in the position to even select tooling for operations before, let alone outfit a shop for every process they want to run.

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Beef is overrated. Pork, poultry, and wild caught shrimp are where it’s at.