>>18166785I own several cnc machines and have 26 people working for me. They work with me, I'm on the biggest machine and they're running fadals and okumas. The top dogs are running the big Cincinnati and DMG Mori machines. I have a 5th axis SNK that I sometimes use for weird shaped parts. If you love what you do, you will never work a day in your life. Be a NEET until you find and hone skills. I give my boys the summers off paid so they can go have a good time, a couple work through it and get the overtime, I'm usually out for 2 weeks every june or july, camping. My shop practically runs itself. CNC is the ultimate NEET job. I play legos with metal fixtures then play crane man to pick up chunks of metal to place on the table. Programming is kinda hard though, I have a guy helping me out with programming hes pretty smart so I am lucky there. Most of it is drawing the part onto CAD programs and they make the toolpaths, but then you need to adjust some parameters every now and then to suit what machine its going in. The Z axis on the DMG Mori has about a foot more travel than the SNK machine so you just need to be careful when using very long tools. Last week 1.9503" hole in aluminum for some bushings. Big fat reamer to get it within .003" and then I've got this nice sunnen hone, square and indicate the bore and boom hone it all out to perfection 1.9503" in just a few minutes. Used to do it with a boring bar but it actually took longer to set that up compared to walking up to the hone which has modular tooling for rapid setups, plus the part is right in front of you on the hone instead of inside the huge cnc machine which you gotta blow off all the chips and coolant to not slip, walkup onto the table, etc. Sometimes a 2nd setup can be quicker but scarcely.
