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<blockquote data-quote="Shadowrider" data-source="post: 2251320" data-attributes="member: 3099"><p>Excellent article and a whole lot of truth in it. These trades are still considered "blue collar" and looked down upon by most parents. I was a CNC machinist/programmer for about 20 years. I learned to program g-code with a blueprint, trig table and a calculator. We wrote out our code on legal pads then went to the machine and manually typed it into the control. We had a tape punch but it was a pain and we only used it on the NC machines that had no memory. That was the old days, later we did code on a risc based Silicon Graphics UNIX workstation because PC's didn't have the computing power to run the software to generate simultaneous 5 axis code connected directly to the machine or DNC via CAT-5 cable. Talk about some contrast!</p><p></p><p>There is a lot of self satisfaction and personal pride that comes from turning a 2700 pound rough forging into a $30,000 finished, shiny, precision part. And using equipment and tooling that costs $1,000,000 and more to make that part is just freakin cool. There are a whole lot of college educated parents these days that don't have any 1st hand knowledge of this. This problem is a by-product of being in a country as fortunate as we are. And who doesn't like Mike Rowe?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Shadowrider, post: 2251320, member: 3099"] Excellent article and a whole lot of truth in it. These trades are still considered "blue collar" and looked down upon by most parents. I was a CNC machinist/programmer for about 20 years. I learned to program g-code with a blueprint, trig table and a calculator. We wrote out our code on legal pads then went to the machine and manually typed it into the control. We had a tape punch but it was a pain and we only used it on the NC machines that had no memory. That was the old days, later we did code on a risc based Silicon Graphics UNIX workstation because PC's didn't have the computing power to run the software to generate simultaneous 5 axis code connected directly to the machine or DNC via CAT-5 cable. Talk about some contrast! There is a lot of self satisfaction and personal pride that comes from turning a 2700 pound rough forging into a $30,000 finished, shiny, precision part. And using equipment and tooling that costs $1,000,000 and more to make that part is just freakin cool. There are a whole lot of college educated parents these days that don't have any 1st hand knowledge of this. This problem is a by-product of being in a country as fortunate as we are. And who doesn't like Mike Rowe? [/QUOTE]
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