Re: A rhetorical question

Gunner Asch wrote:
On Mon, 15 Sep 2008 12:53:49 -0500, "Lloyd E. Sponenburgh"
<lloydspinsidemindspring.com> wrote:

I have a casual acquaintance who I respect for one of his areas of expertice. Besides that knowlege, he claims to have been "a machinist for decades". He's of retirement age now.

Recently, he instructed a raw-beginner HSM on how to turn long tapers using the compound and frequent re-chucking, and using a file for dressing up the jaggies. When I suggested turning between centers and offsetting the tailstock, he bristled, saying that it was "impossible" to ever get the tailstock back on center again.

Later he made a comment to another fellow allowing that "owning a lathe and a mill would only be a dream for me."

Can I presume this guy is NOT "a machinist"? <G>

Or is it possible that production-floor machine _operators_ call themselves that?


LLoyd

Ayup..sounds like a Boeing "Machinist" who came in to one of my
clients looking for a job as a Bridgeport machinist.

He didnt have a clue how to do anything other than the same 3-5 parts
he ran for his entire carreer at Boeing.

He didnt get the job....shrug

I wonder if he came in with the attitude "I am an apprentice now" or if he was looking for the same pay rate &c as he was getting.

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