Hi All,
Longtime lurker but first time poster, I'm in a small team of ~6 techs supporting a research facility. We have a small shop with old but good lathes, another old but decent universal mill and a Taiwanese knee mill. All major fabrication goes to a seperate production workshop or outsourced, so our shop is mostly used for quick mods, repairs or urgent fabrication work almost always 1-off parts. Half the techs are ex-machinists but like me have not worked as such for many years and...
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Longtime lurker but first time poster, I'm in a small team of ~6 techs supporting a research facility. We have a small shop with old but good lathes, another old but decent universal mill and a Taiwanese knee mill. All major fabrication goes to a seperate production workshop or outsourced, so our shop is mostly used for quick mods, repairs or urgent fabrication work almost always 1-off parts. Half the techs are ex-machinists but like me have not worked as such for many years and...
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