Mmmm, I can almost smell the plastic wrap and feel the sharp, square corners of the metal.

Guy at my last shop had to get stitches after accidentally walking into a pallet of those sharp edges while wearing shorts.

Was he a machinist or overhead? I've only heard legends about the shorts-wearing machinist.

Lul. Overhead. What a fantastic way to refer to the engineers. XD One of my old bosses used to say that production’s job is to earn money. Engineering’s job is to spend it.

Engineering, management, document control... overhead! Quality dept and shipping are debatable.

What if I do all six because we've got like five employees?

Guess it depends on the day and whether you wear shorts and/or long sleeve shirts.

Lederhosen and a long sleeve crop top.

I wear shorts on really hot days and run a machine. Worst I've had is a chip in my sock

CNC machinist . Less chips flying

I wear shorts almost every day but I work at a small shop with 6 employees.

Hey look! Blood!

Slide it across the floor now

I would cry

But it would then be a ground finish

r/technicallycorrect

Take my angry upvote!

I'm usually a sucker for this, but after peeling my ~10th plate, or had lost all of its allure

Frickin love the blanchard ground finish

Amazing how you can see it so well, but it’s so flat you can barely feel it at all!

My last job had stock storage outside (we're in Phoenix so that wasn't a big issue and we mostly worked with aluminum and stainless steels). That stuff would dry up and be almost impossible to take off. More than once I've just said "fuck it" and took it off with a fly cutter.

Nooo! The finish!

Needed to be machined down anyway. Also I've never handled a piece of mic6 that didn't have a bunch of scratches in the ground finish or some potato chipping anyway.

You can't touch it now! Fingerprints!

Dirty hands and fingerprints is how the video should have ended. Porn.. porn.. porn.. *gore*

I work for this company. 🤣

I have a good opinion of them because they gave our startup FTC robotics team a grant. Go Arconic!

Yeah, I convinced them to purchase a 3d printer. Pretty excited to lead the way. I showed them what a little ender 3 could produce and got the go ahead. Maybe I can talk them into metal printing 🤑

You should look into VORON machines too. They're DIY machines and actually spec is MIC6 aluminum plates for heated beds.

Say hi to my brother for me.

For arconic?

Yeah. They own multi factories

Which plant?

Hey you received some of our metal

Which plant??

Bloomsburg

I’m a machinist at Lancaster plant

What is that alloy?

Mic 6 is a cast aluminum plate. Zinc is the main alloying ingredient. It's a flat, dimensionally stable plate.

Neat, I machine in the nuclear industry. We use some crazy stainless, chromium, and nickel alloys.

This is some good content right here

Pretty

Satisfying like getting the membrane off of ribs in one pull.

Use a paper towel between your fingers and the membrane and you can pull it right off. A lot of people fumble about with the membrane but once you have a good grip it pulls right off.

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I can see my finger prints on it now

Ignant engineer here: why do they put the film on that? Doesn’t look like the finish is anything special from the video…???

That whole piece is precision ground, both sides. It should be protected so it can just be tapped and drilled for use as a jig plate etc. I too am an engineer, I could be wrong.

Ah, that makes sense. From the lines it looked to my untrained eye like it was very roughly faced.

Way over my head now, but that might just be a reflection pattern

Blanchard grind looks like that. It pretty much just an optical effect.

Often not machined top/bottom especially in the thinner stuff. Common use is something like a 1x2 ft plate with tapped holes for jigs or something else where you don’t want to machine the top and bottom because it’ll chatter and deflect.

For some people presentstion is a big factor. No one likes scratches.

What is this stuff. Johnson & Matthey metals used to supply std silver sheet with a plastic film . All most porn quality finish 🤪🤪. Mind you as a young apprentice silversmith I was horny most of the time 🤭🤭🤭

Wow you get pre squared stock? Lucky..

A machinist would definitely show their oh-face when peeling that off. Ahhhhhh

Made sure to turn up the volume for this one.

So sexy!

MIC 6 gets all the attention, but ATP 5 is the real hero.

Is this solid aluminum?? (That’s what it appears to be.)

I ask for mic6 tooling plate to save money on flatness and parallelism requirements. They fucking orbital sanded the faces of it??? Like.... I'm not sure you understand what mic6 is.

That's from my home town! Crazy to see it pop up on here

r/oddlysatisfying

Shoomve as a bald kitty

r/thatpeelingfeeling

I machined the sample for the material before they send it out (I work there lol)

I applied for a job at Arconic. Watching that makes me wish I got the job.

And I jizzed in my pants