According to manual machinists, CNC guys press cycle start… then go take a nap. CNC machinists might argue otherwise — but this meme had both camps laughing. Also inside: the checkerboard bore that sparked 900+ comments and real CNC jobs from shops that don’t suck.
Top Comments Include:
“Accurate representation of me being home away from work still hearing the machines run In my head😂”.
“That’s wrong. You push a button every once in awhile”
“my beds a little further from the machine than that.”
“Yes! Holding that .0005 tolerance on those Navy nuclear pump impellers with a 28 year old CNC is just so easy any monkey can do it.”
“He's having a nightmare about the end mill slamming into the vise at 50 inches a second.”
“What they actually do…”
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This one absolutely broke the MACHINIST group.
A checkered finish inside a bored aluminum casting sparked 900+ comments and just about every theory in the shop. The crowd’s main verdict: harmonics/chatter from a thin wall and a finicky setup — with fixes ranging from backing off RPM to the classic rubber bands / modeling clay trick. Of course, the funniest consensus was even stronger: call it a proprietary performance finish and charge extra.
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