What kind of jobs do you have?

[LimeNine]

toolmaker / CNC machinist since for the past 25 years.

I machine orthopedic implants like knee replacement parts, hip replacement parts, shoulder, ankle, spine. AND
easy open end beverage container system parts like Coors, Budweiser, Pepsi, Coke, Campbells soup


in the past I have built F-Body catylitic converter dies for Harrison radiator, Dayton, Ohio (now done in F'n Mexico)
also S-10 catylitic converter dies
Ford Bronco gas tank dies
Ford fuel injection dies
Whirlpool oven doors dies
GM power window brackets dies
Chrysler radiator headers dies
Ford radiator headers dies
GM radiator headers dies
John Deere pulley cover dies

Cooper Industries (air compressor dies)
Shop Smith

Sparrow Missle injection molds (ignition cables)
US Navy (smart mine brain cable molds)
Bell Helicoptor
NASA (Space Shuttle - brake system circut boards fixturing)

for the past 20 years I've been building easy open ends shell dies, conversion dies tab dies.
Ya know - beer can's, pet food, ham can's, sardine cans, soup.
I kinda know a lot about a beer can, like it's built to contain 90 psi. . .

[bluehawk2000]

toolmaker / CNC machinist since for the past 25 years.

I machine orthopedic implants like knee replacement parts, hip replacement parts, shoulder, ankle, spine. AND
easy open end beverage container system parts like Coors, Budweiser, Pepsi, Coke, Campbells soup


in the past I have built F-Body catylitic converter dies for Harrison radiator, Dayton, Ohio (now done in F'n Mexico)
also S-10 catylitic converter dies
Ford Bronco gas tank dies
Ford fuel injection dies
Whirlpool oven doors dies
GM power window brackets dies
Chrysler radiator headers dies
Ford radiator headers dies
GM radiator headers dies
John Deere pulley cover dies

Cooper Industries (air compressor dies)
Shop Smith

Sparrow Missle injection molds (ignition cables)
US Navy (smart mine brain cable molds)
Bell Helicoptor
NASA (Space Shuttle - brake system circut boards fixturing)

for the past 20 years I've been building easy open ends shell dies, conversion dies tab dies.
Ya know - beer can's, pet food, ham can's, sardine cans, soup.
I kinda know a lot about a beer can, like it's built to contain 90 psi. . .

if I would have ever met a nerd I would say my man you are a nerd, lol j/k man sounds pretty crazy. Whats the pay rate for a job like this?

[02SOMZ]

What the hell is all this for stem producing plant or something? What is the job title that looks pretty easy lol.

Fire sprinkler testing...

[TwinTA]

Here you go 3 and a half years and loss of hearing!!!!! the rest says it all...... ha ha ha

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[LimeNine]

if I would have ever met a nerd I would say my man you are a nerd, lol j/k man sounds pretty crazy. Whats the pay rate for a job like this?

Yea, I guess making $50k-$80K / year is nerd territory. . . seriously, "nerd?" . . . . .

to start - you need training, while you are still learning (apprenticing at $15k-$20k/yr) you purchase your own precision tools, $3k worth of indicators, micromemters, etc.etc.
serve your dues, develop skills, and work Every hour they make available.
Then return for computer training, as most of the tooling industry is CNC equipment nowdays. Simple stuff in my opinion, but some guys ain't got the ability to figure it out.

Eventually you'll be able to chase threads on a lathe, or machine anything you want, like maybe your own heads, custom shifter linkage, or custom emblems like those seen at 6litereater (he uses a laser or maybe a waterjet).
Maybe learn the basics of of tool and die making, branch off into injection mold making, or just find a "button pusher" job and run production work.


Who do ya think builds the machines that produces those beer cans?
Ever hear of Silgan Can? Crown Cork and Seal? Ball Metal Conatiner? American National Can? Rexam? Stolle? Diawa Can?

Who do ya think builds 50cal. / 30cal. machine gun trigger mechanisms?
Do you know what a 50cal. machine gun pintel, with out googling it?

Seriously - somewhere in this world, there are tool makers, dies makers, injection mold makers are building the machines that mass produce everything,
What about watch making? Got some skills to build an automatic watch? Do you know what an automatic watch is?


What about our cars? ever wonder how they make a car?
A whole bunch of toolmakers have to build a progressive dies and or an injection molds.
Think about all the different parts in a car - or all the different progressive dies to stamp out the parts that eventually make our cars.
I'm not talking about the final assembly that they like to show on the television shows.
'er OK, where'd they get the parts for the assembly plants for the final assembly of our cars?
Uhhh, yep, toolmakers built many many different dies and injection molds.

Nerdville . . .? of all the sites across the web. . . .nerd? seriously. .


Think nerd when you need your knees replaced, or when you open that skanky Budweiser can of beer.