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Machinist sayings or "quotes"
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Machinist sayings or "quotes"

Machinist sayings or "quotes"

(OP)
My Students would like to get some t-shirts made showing there pride in being a machinist.  Does any one have a good saying or quote.  Serious or funny

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Not machining related but still rather funny:

"I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize"  -Anonymous

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You are welcome to use the following.   We gave it out a lot of years ago and at least one magazine picked it up.  I still see it in shops occasionally which is fun.  The only complaint I ever had was that machinist are a lot better than I make them out to be.  

Tell your students that they are entering a proud and very important profession.    

tom



Why I Am A machinist

I am a machinist because when I was young I was told to look around and see who had the kind of life I wanted to have.  Then go do the same work

What I found was that machinists are generally much better looking than average.  They test out smarter and have more friends.  

I heard about some guys from a university who studied machinists in a bar.  They found that machinists get approached and generally get lucky about 43 times as often as most folks.

Machinists shoot better pool, catch more fish and don't win the lottery nearly as often as they should.  They can work their VCR and set the clock on the microwave. Their kids are brighter, their lawns are greener and their cars run better.  Their daughters are prettier and their sons are better athletes.  Their spouses are sweeter and their mothers-in -law hardly visit at all.

Machinists do things like save lives and generally make a better world.   

Anyway, I looked around and it seemed to me that machinists were clearly superior folk and I would be proud to be one.  That is why I am a machinist.  That and all the good jobs were taken.     


Tom Walz
www.carbideprocessors.com

RE: Machinist sayings or "quotes"

How about "Machinists Rule" ? And then, underneath that, a picture of a steel rule.

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I like EnglishMuffin’s input, but to add…..
How about:
I’m a machinist…You just Quill me!
  “    “       “ Lets  play on your Davenport!
  “    “       “ One Live Spindle!
  “    “       “ Now  you know  what a Screw Machine is!
  “    “       “ I turn it down and take it off!
A Screw Machine? Ask Me I’m a Machinist!
I’m the machinist and I control the Lead Screw!
I’m the Machinist and “That’s close enough for government work”
We’re (I’m a) Machinist, and have worked with the best tailstocks in town!
HAY! You gotta be kidding! I’m a Machinist and that is not an interference fit”

Last but not least :

Last week I couldn’t spell Machinist now I are one!

"bearhunter" You have my permission to modify and use,  toss out any or all of the above quips as you see fit.
I hope I did not offend anyone! I'm just having fun.

Much Regards
pennpoint

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How about

"Machinist's do it accurately"

"Machinists do it "round and round" and "up and down".

"Happiness is a good tight screw".

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My favorite is "if it was in your a$$ you'd know!"  

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How about...

"You design it, We machine it"

Best regards,
ct

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In a few years, they'll have this memorized...

                        We the Willing
                      Led by the Unknowing
                    Are doing the Impossible
                       For the Ungrateful.

                      We have done So Much
                         With So Little
                           For So Long
                      We are now Qualified
                         To do Anything
                          With Nothing.

Also, I see "skosh" is now in dictionaries.  Can anyone quantitatively define any of the following?
   A hair...
   A smidge (or smidgen)...
   "Dead nuts"

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funnelguy
Everyone can argue that "a hair" and "a smidgen" depends on the size of the equipment, job and the size of the anchoring device or bolt pattern (the target area). As in a bridge pin, a hair or smidgen could be as much as 1" (25mm)or so.

BUT!! No one can argue that "Dead Nuts" is nothing more than "RIGHT ON THE MARK", "BULLS EYE", "ON TARGET", "WRAP IT UP", "ZERO", "OK! LETS GO HOME". "IT'S MILLER TIME", and the last but not least "THATS CLOSE ENOUGH FOR GOVERNMENT WORK" and I'm sure theres more!

Regards

pennpoint


  

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Actually, and in all seriousness, "Dead Nuts" stands for location "00" (zero - zero). or "Right on target".

An old military term.    No I'm not that old!

In the Fighter Aircraft comunity we call the First aircraft in the squadron "Double Nuts". Aircraft 100, 200, 300.
Depending on the squadron designator.

To the original question..."Students"
College or High School?  I know High School language has gotten worse, but putting some of this in writting on a T-shirt crosses the line.

Maybe I am that old after all.

How about - "Machinists do it with a large Bridgeport"
    or      "My HAAS is bigger than yours"

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penpoint,
I've been asked to indicate to "dead nuts" by any number of people on any number of setups.  Pushing the issue to a get a number, I have been told anywhere between .004" and .0002".  Neither is truly "dead nuts".  I especially like when a set-up required .0004 TIR and was routed across a LATHE with non-repetetive spindle runout of .0003!  "Machinists" who only indicate one spot or ignore secondary datums run my blood pressure up, too.  Try to indicate to less than .001 on an old VTL with hydrodynamic bearings.  Big fun!  Why do I provide machinists with micrometers so they can tell me, "It's just a hair under." ?  I've never seen a mic thimble graduated in hairs.  Wait, I'm in the wrong thread... Numbers, I want numbers!!  Sorry to vent...  all you other industrial types out there can just wipe those smiles off your faces!  

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how about this

"I keep grinding and grinding but it's still undersize."

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Hell Yes I can make it.   What is it?

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One way to think of 'Dead Nuts' is in the terms of cylindrical tolerance fits.

On an 1/8" dia location fit it is approx. +-.0003

On a 15" dia the same class of fit is about +-.002"

Maybe 'dead nuts' is really all about perspective!!!

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(OP)
A few I have come up with:
If you break it We can Make.
Pursuing perfecton, acheiving Excellence
A Craft of perfection Due to Perserverance.
Machinist aren't perfect, we have a tolerance.
Your car cost $40,000, So What, My machine cost $150,000 and it will make car part.

Thanks for all your input, this is fun to hear what other chip chuckers have to say.

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"You want what?  When?  Really?"

(Stolen from Doritos)
"Crunch all you want, we'll make more."

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Dead nuts is generally when you see no indicator movement on a standard .0005 graduated dial indicator.  Therefore, less than .0002.

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How about:

"I worked my whole life as a Machinist,
    and all I got was Dead Nuts!"
        "$00, Zip, Bupkiss"

No Golden Parachute for the workers,
all we get is the Rip Chord. Surprise!

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My favorite--"You're not making a watch".

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something like...

Machinist...let me count the ways I love you
G1, G2, G3, G4.....

Cameron Anderson - Sales & Applications Engineer
Aerotech, Inc. - www.aerotech.com

"Dedicated to the Science of Motion"

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You can always tell a good Master machinist, They still have
all of there fingers!

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My quote (which I made up myself) after constantly being badgered by PITA managers pushing for too much haste is just begging to be printed on a T-Shirt.

"You can have it right or you can have it now, but you can't have it right now"

in fact for many years I have toyed with the idea of getting some printed myself just for the hell of it.

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"Do you want it fast or half-fast?"

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Aw shucks, all the good quotes have been used up.

onernorsk came "closest" on dead nuts.  "Dead nuts is generally when you see no indicator movement on a standard .0005 graduated dial indicator.  Therefore, less than .0002."

that's "close" onery-one but no bannana.  even at my advanced age, I can detect .0002 movement on a .0005 indicator.  Dead nuts is +or- zero zip on a tenths graduated indicator.  Of course this is grinding tolerance but aren't grinding machines considered machine tools?  In other words dead nuts means about the same thing as basic dimension in GD&T, kinda sorta.

What is so unquantitative about a hair.  We ain't talk'n Bear hairs or Alpaca hairs.  Well maybe bearhunter would.  we is talk'n human hairs which average "about" .003-.004" unless it be blonde or redhead which would be about .0015-.002."  That's plenty close for government work!

I like the cartoon where the rookie is explaining to the lead machinist:  "I admit it isn't in tolerance but you gotta admit it's pretty darn close!"

And then there is the one with a shaft laying on a work bench which has the classical double elliptical crosshatched pattern used on drawings to depict a forshortened long cylindrical part.  Except in this case it is drawn in isometric.  The machinist has a file in his hands and says, "the O.D. wasn't too bad but the cross section was a real challenge."  Wouldn't work on a T-shirt 'cause the average dude wouldna have a clue.

Jesus is THE life,
Leonard

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I'll never forget when I came home and told my mother that I had made my first part "Dead Nuts". She thought it was an expletive!
Actually I understtod it from the oldtimers as producing tight fitting threads for a nut. This was a real skill and still is on Manual equipmwnt.

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this is the quote that my old skilled mentor ronnie barron
told me

       "NIL ILIGITIMO DESPERANDO CARBURUNDUM"
     
        DONT LET THE BASTARDS GRIND YOU DOWN

 may the laws of physics be with you

regards  

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Never enough time to make it right.
Alway's enough time to make it over.

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One of our guys wore this in the other day:

"GibbsCAM is not on the Bee Gee's website."


Kind of stupid, but it made me laugh.  (therefore, me = stupid?)

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Here is a t-shirt I had made years ago when I was still machining (engineering now).

"MACHINISTS DO IT WITH PRECISION"

Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.

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My personal favorite:
An engineer is a machinist with his brains knocked out.

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Dead nuts is when you have to check and make sure the indicator is actually touching the work piece.......

Funnelguy, you need to relax.
 When a machinist tells you its a hair off, you should count on atleast .003" out of tolerance, if it was only .0002" most wouldnt even come to see you.

I can tell you from experience on both sides. Engineers get sick of the stuff you described and Machinists get tired of Engineers and Detailers that dont know how to apply GD&T.

My favorite quotes: It's not a Church......
                    Good enough for the Women I date......

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Machinists create,
everyone else just describes.

RedPen

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You can tell a good machinist by counting is FINGERS!

yOU CAN TELL HOW EXSPERIANCED THEY ARE BUY COUNTNIG THE SCARS ON THEIR HANDS!

In the old machine shop I strated in a Lufkin grey tame measure was king!

SBI
Central Ne.,USA

RE: Machinist sayings or "quotes"

Maybe a bit much for a t-shirt, but still funny...

There comes a time in the life of every project when you need to shoot the engineer and get on with production.

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My favorite is that:

It can be done three ways:
           GOOD
           FAST
           CHEAP
You only get to pick two of the three
If it is done GOOD and FAST it can't be CHEAP.
If it is done GOOD and CHEAP it can't be FAST.
IF it is done FAST and CHEAP it can't be GOOD.

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The shop boss at a place I used to work had the good fast cheap saying on his wall. I always wanted to make a teeshirt

Look like a Triangle with each of the words at a vertex.

"PICK TWO" UNDERNEATH....

INSIDE THE TRIANGLE IS A MACHINED PART (PHOTOGRAPH IF YOU WILL)...

Wes C.

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Mechanical engineering is intimidating to many people.  For some it can not be reduced to practical terms and will always remain obscure.


"Nearside Farside is not a comic stripe"

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I rather like:
"He who does not specify what he wants, deserves what he gets."

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Impossible is only in your mind

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An oldy:

"The main difference between an Engineer and a Machinist..."

"The Engineer washes his hands after using the urinal. The Machinist doesn't pee on his hands".

--
Bill

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When im in a hurry to do something always seems to be someone telling me  "Rome wasnt built in a day"

my reply "I wasnt on that job!"

Ken

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"....I cut it twice and it's still too short. I'd better cut it again..."

Stupidity is the basic building block of the universe.   F.Z.

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"never time to make it right, always time to make it twice."

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When our quality manager came out to the machines , he couldn't stand hearing......"They don't check too bad if you don't check em to good".

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Scope, schedule, budget, select any two.  Or, fast, cheap or good, select any two.

Every once in  a while the voices in my head have a good idea.

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Just some idea's.

1) It was so sad, when we turned the new century, I saw
on TV, things that where thought to be the worlds/century's greatest inventions. Such things as airplanes, computers, TV,Transister and many more. But never ever did the word "machine tools" or milling machine or lathe come up. It amazes me that no one seems to know, that without machine tools and us fools that run them, that no one on the face of this earth would have much more than leaves and animal skins to wear, and no modern conveniences what so ever. Machine tools make the machines and tools that make everything you use daily and buy at any store. With out us dirty greasy machinist and mechanics. Your world as you know it would cease to exist.

2) Next time you drive your car. Stop and think. If there were no machinist's. There would be no car.

3) When sitting in your home and look around. Can you see anything that was not in some way touched by a machine of some sort? Without us machinists, your house and all thats in it, would not appear as it does. Just look at some old
photos of the wild west. But even then there where machined items. Without us machinists you would be living in the stone age.

This is fun isn't it???   

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My two cents :

1.
MINE IS NOT TO ASK WHY
MINE IS JUST TO TOOL AND DIE !

2.
NUT SCREWS WASHERS AND BOLTS!
(a little risque but quite a fav.)

3.
WE LEAD AND QUILL

NO BUGS BO BYTES :)) !

Regards,

-vhs

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Here's one that I use.
I am a Machinist. My ability to create is limited only by you inability to envision.

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Just a few more I thought of:
1-You really expect me to machine it that fast and still hold those kinds of tolerances!? Ok, but it's gonna cost ya extra.
2-Screw, Butt, Ball, Tailstock, and Dead Nuts. Gotta love a Machinist's vocabulary.
3-GOD must've been a Machinist with a killer piece of stock.
4-I am a Machinist. I didn't envision, plan, or design this part. But if you leave me alone long enough, I'll make it work.
5-(Still my favorite) I am a Machinist. My ability to create is limited only by your inability to envision (imagine).
6-The Hindenburg and the Titanic. Don't blame the Machinists. We just make whatever the Enigneers design.

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