How many machinist do we have in fabo
Not officially, but I'm sort of learn on the job / self taught over the years. I currently have a vertical milling machine and three small lathes in my home shop. My Dad was a machinist and I used his scraping tools to teach myself how to re-scrape lathe and mill ways to rebuild the machines. It is amazing the flatness and precision that can be achieved by hand scraping. I'm slow as heck, but I love making chips. Hope to keep busy with little mechanical side hustles and maybe "volunteer" in a machine shop, after I retire from my full time gig. I've been around machinery and manufacturing my whole life and wish to continue it. If I can't get cut, shocked, burned, or crushed by what I'm doing, it doesn't seem worth doing.