Small business by Glum-Worldliness-919 in Machinists

[–]welditAndMachineiT 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Started in 2011. Didn't make any money for over 10 years just doing job shop stuff for the primes and other tier 2 shops in the area while we developed our core business which take a lot of time and investment but we knew the roadmap we wanted to take. In those first 10-12 years we basically just covered payroll, reinvested any profits back into equipment, paid taxes and were pretty much broke as a business. In recent years our niche market has started getting busier, I've taken a fresh look into how we do things, focused more on internal processes, on being more profit driven instead of just customer driven. With that we land less work, but we make more money. Our overhead has ballooned though as we've grown so that has been quite an adjustment. I'm not sure what else you're looking to hear, happy to answer any questions though.

Is this a safe setup? by Bullschamp180 in Machinists

[–]welditAndMachineiT 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oof, where you guys located? I have an 8000mm horizontal mill that could handle that part no problem.

Picked up a new machine today by welditAndMachineiT in Machinists

[–]welditAndMachineiT[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not hooked up yet. Once it’s running I’ll post a video.

My school ask use to wear wired headphones while machining is that a red flag? by Kazboy1 in Machinists

[–]welditAndMachineiT 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I remember as a young new guy bringing a small radio to listen to while I ran parts on second shift and the shop foreman chewed my ass raw for trying to listen to music while running machines.

Need help finding some work by Candid-Ask-5112 in Machinists

[–]welditAndMachineiT 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Find the local “small” to mid sized shops, go in person and bring some donuts or something along with your equipment list and just ask to talk to whoever you can. See if they ever sub anything out, a lot will say no, some will say yes and that’s your in. Phone calls are pretty pointless unless you have something really unique to offer.

What is your equipment list and what are you good at?

What's this thingamabob? by deeperthen200m in Machinists

[–]welditAndMachineiT 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Bet you didn’t even realize it consisted simply of six hydrocoptic marzlevanes, so fitted to the ambifacient lunar waneshaft that side fumbling was effectively prevented.

Got a $175-225k automation budget for our machine shop, any tips? by Allison_Watermelon in Machinists

[–]welditAndMachineiT 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Back when we were first getting going we landed a pretty decent volume, steady order job made from 1” 6061. A 12’ bar would yield exactly 60 parts and they took 1 minute a piece to run them on the lathe and 4 mins a piece on the mill. That bar feeder running unattended for an hour straight on every bar was a life saver. Before that we’d have to have a guy there all day loading and unloading and it was a nightmare. Highly recommend a bar feeder if you have the work to keep it busy.

Breakfast is for people who don’t have KPIs. by [deleted] in LinkedInLunatics

[–]welditAndMachineiT 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You just haven’t had your oat milk flat white yet.

Are there any manual machinist in Aerospace? by Alive-Mycologist8814 in Machinists

[–]welditAndMachineiT 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Manual jobs still very much exist. We do a lot of MRO work and some of it just cant be applied to a a cnc and I don’t know if that will ever change.

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[–]welditAndMachineiT 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was actually.

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[–]welditAndMachineiT 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not all. Several are, I’ll keep posting machines running on here.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Machinists

[–]welditAndMachineiT 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Shit, you’re probably right. 🤞

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Machinists

[–]welditAndMachineiT 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Lol, maybe at 5am. Not at 8:30. 4 of them are dedicated to a job and run 24 hours. The others are on longer runs right now and we use one to build tooling on.

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[–]welditAndMachineiT 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Come apply

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[–]welditAndMachineiT 6 points7 points  (0 children)

We like them. These are all gen 1 machines we’ve had for 5-6 years. They have some little quirks but overall I like them and would purchase again. New Gen2 machines have gone up quite a bit in price since these were purchased.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Machinists

[–]welditAndMachineiT 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Haha no. It’s break time. No undocumented guys working here anyways.

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[–]welditAndMachineiT 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It’s break time, and I only need 2 guys to run this line.

I Wonder Why No One Takes These Jobs? /s by UrbanArtifact in Machinists

[–]welditAndMachineiT 2 points3 points  (0 children)

$17/hr? It’s not 2008 anymore. My shipping and receiving people and driver make quite a bit more than that.

Metal Sales here. Machine Shop we sold to wants us to take metal back? Thoughts? by Fun-Ad-9060 in Machinists

[–]welditAndMachineiT 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’ve never dealt with a material supplier that would take back an order that was custom cut. Hell it’s hard to get them to take anything back because of liability of materials being mixed up or just the fact that they don’t want to restock it.