Thread: OT: "You're not a REAL Machinist until................

.............you keep a set of dial calipers on your desk at home."

.............you get wood when the machinery auction flyer arrives."

.............you marvel at the simplest time-saving tool attachments and thought 'wow, I should have thought of that!'"

Let the games begin...........

You reach in your pocket for your 6" rule to (stir coffee, open package, butter bread, tighten screw, etc.) and realize you are dressed up and nowhere around any machines.

You keep a deburring tool in the top pocket of your Sunday best just in case.

Not wishing to rain on anyones parade this has been done before - very long thread.

Please Mr Moderator (That Mr Moderator Sir - with 2 cherries on the top) let it run - see if there are any changes?

My apologies! Not trying to plagiarize or steal any thunder.

Until you've owned a pair of custom soled shoes.

Originally Posted by Alloy Mcgraw

Until you've owned a pair of custom soled shoes.

Are those the kind that make your feet wring to carpet?

You know hen you are a real machinist when the boss routinely gives you the nasty almost screwed up jobs to salvabe.

No kidding. This is the ultimate compliment; better than a premium parking place or an employee of the month photo on the wall. It means the boss has confidence in your capability. You seldom screw up, you have the right combination of agressiveness and caution, invention and conservatism, and you don't play shop politics.

A half-eaten Prussian blue or cutting oil tinged sandwich parked in the top of your Gerstner is also a tell.

Aerodark-
They would stick to carpet like velco, if i could make it into the house with them on....But the "wife alarm" goes off as i try to pass through the door with them on.

...You're grumpy and crabby and drive questions away with evil looks.

You correct anyone who says ruler by saying......."Its called a SCALE!"

You correct your buddies that only call measurments in metric to say them in fractions or thousanths.

You crindge at the sight of watching your non-machinist coworkers use your precision tools out of your toolbox.

You get pissed anytime to have tp watch one of the salesmen who know nothing about running a band saw use the saw and fuck of the blade everytime they touch it.

...you still reach for your Redwings when getting ready to go out with the kids or with the little lady, at least until they intervene. The sneakers just don't quite fit right. I think that KPotter called it "street cred" once. Sounds good enough to me.

...You can say "He only lost the the tip of his finger" , and mean it.

You can't imagine life without machine tools and the ability to make and tweak everything in your world. I mean, good God! How does ANYBODY make it though life with just the crap you can buy off the shelf at the store?

Originally Posted by Alloy Mcgraw

Until you've owned a pair of custom soled shoes.

And to think... People actually pay money for winter shoes!

Your pets don't recognize you when you come home NOT smelling like coolant.

[QUOTE=Abom79;1846113]You correct anyone who says ruler by saying......."Its called a SCALE!"


YOU call it a ruler and can get away with it!

Your wife says, you love that stupid machine shop more than you love me, don't you?
How in the hell do you answer that one!

Originally Posted by Ray Behner

Your wife says, you love that stupid machine shop more than you love me, don't you?
How in the hell do you answer that one!

That is why I am not married!

Originally Posted by Ray Behner

Your wife says, you love that stupid machine shop more than you love me, don't you?
How in the hell do you answer that one!

You don't, just plead the 5th,.... then ask them not to make you choose,.........at least two of my former GF's did, and weren't to chuffed with my answer.

When asked how, you answer it can't be done. 5 minutes later you go back with the solution.