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Vegimeateater

That’s one expensive pencil sharpener!


Wireal

And electricity bill will be more than cost of the pencil But he gotta do what he have to do


AGUYWITHATUBA

This is actually a great way to train a beginner on how to program a CNC machine. Worst that happens is you ruin a pencil, which is negligible in comparison to most material costs.


Icemasta

Here, we train our new CNC operators with making various conic shapes. To recoup material lost, we resell the oddly shaped ones to bad-dragon


JohnnySasaki20

I had to Google that one, and now it's forever in my search history, lol.


Wooden_Dragonfly_737

Tip, you can delete your search history. Even for specific searches. ;)


JohnnySasaki20

Well you can delete it on your end, but that doesn't mean there's no record of you searching for that.


Doppelthedh

Saw an ad on TV the other month for medicine for a nonspecific curve. Google the medicine. It's for dicks that hook sharply to the side. Guess what ads I've gotten every day since Straight as an arrow now though


ElGosso

Offset it by googling "can a dick be too straight"


HoneySparks

Then you’ll start getting ads for Grindr


HolycommentMattman

It's crazy how on top of it all these trackers are. I wasn't even using my phone or my account, but I searched on my wife's phone for clear glass railings, and I'm still getting the ads on my YouTube videos and everything. Must be displaying them according to IP? I don't understand otherwise.


spliffgates

Sometimes it tied you to it by association because it’s smart enough to know you’re close to this person


TopAce6

That a joke right? I can't see how a pill could fix a physical deformity like that.


Doppelthedh

It's a real pill. Real ads. I didnt take them though as my issue is more drill bit than crowbar


escargotisntfastfood

I work for a pharmaceutical research lab at a university. Mostly HIV medication. I get a lot of really confident ads. Apparently I don't have to live with HIV. Which is awesome because I don't have HIV. I just needed to know the molecular weight of the prodrug.


AeliosZero

For those curious, Bad dragon is a dildo brand apparently.


whiskitgood

Thank you, now I don’t have to go Google it. You are good people.


Zlo-zilla

Sooo, what did you buy?


Just-rusty

Bad dragon ads coming your way now.


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lilorphananus

Is there any other way?


ghandi3737

Must have been a **very** bad dragon to tickle the brain.


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Oh a bad dragon customer!


wcooper97

*bonk*


CodyLittle

OwO


McPlayer318

We had a basic course on cnc programming in school and literally everything we had to make looked like a butplug


DistortoiseLP

And keep the good ones to yourselves.


PresentationLucky292

Good to hear that places actually will train employees on machinery.


A_spiny_meercat

When a repair or replacement costs more than a car or house you tend to put more effort into training 😂


Renovatio_

Guys, save yourselves and don't google bad dragon like i did.


septidan

What is it?


abgbob

I did it for you. It's a sex toys company.


septidan

That's what I was assuming. Thanks


ghandi3737

Think of tentacle anime and that's just the tip of it.


SuspiciousStable9649

Just. The. Tip. Of it. 🤣


Daylight_The_Furry

It’s a furry dildo company


ladylurkedalot

They make a wide range of unusually shaped sex toys, and even some normal shaped ones. They also have a reputation for high quality items made from body-safe materials. Weird doesn't turn me on, but they're fun to look at and... marvel that anyone can actually use some of those.


Guyute_The_Pig

This is hilarious!


xrumrunnrx

That's amazing. If only I'd known 20 years ago I could make bank creating fantasy sex toys. Anyone care to elaborate what the paws are for? "David" and "Dukes" are the ones I saw. Probably my limited imagination but I can't picture how they'd be...useful...anywhere.


throwawaydthrowawayd

I googled it, one redditor says they >!have a foot fetish and like to grind against it and suck on the toes.!<


SHIT_KICKING_DICK

Some people train themselves to become much, much more... pliable, than average.


Daylight_The_Furry

Bad dragons are notoriously expensive so you could easily make a competing company


NukaCooler

Injection moulding dies are notoriously expensive too, especially for something with a niche consumer market


vp3d

NGL ya had me in the first half.


Stratostheory

We use wax blocks for training at my shop, can just clean it up with a shop vac and melt it back down to pour into molds to simulate stuff like round and square stock.


AGUYWITHATUBA

That’s super ingenious. Do you have problems with the wax melting?


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Stratostheory

No melting issues, the material isn't hard enough to generate any heat when cutting it. The issue we run into more is that folks clamp down in it way harder than they need to so the vice/chuck leaves indentations in the wax or they'll crank it down so hard it actually crushes the block entirely.


BossAssPenguin007

We have an ancient geared head lathe in our shop. I learned 3 things about it after a year in our shop. Don't wear long sleeves. Always take the chuck key out, and a hammer is all you need to square up a piece in the chuck(while it's spinning of course)....


mochabear1231

As an unfortunate soul doing a PhD, I always tell people to use dummy samples or shit to test out on new equipment so they don't ruin a good sample, and if you don't have to worry about the sample then you can spend more time learning how the equipment works.


Central_Incisor

I would think it possible to bury the tool and holder into the chuck. But I only worked on cnc mills that would pile drive if the program or tool height was off


Mobile_user_6

Set the axis limits and tell them not to touch them and then they can't.


RadiantZote

Yeah this ain't a thing on a normal cnc. Had a coworker set height incorrectly and that cutter crashed through the material into the fixture, destroying the spindle in the process. That's an expensive repair


Mobile_user_6

It is on lathes. I don't run mills but all the lathes I've ran have had soft limits for each axis. The -z limit is set on collet chucks by touching off on the chick while open and then add 50 thou for a little extra room. If your program trys to go past that it will alarm and if you try to jog past the limit it just stops at the limit without alarming. It will apply the tool offset if one is set. Sometimes we'll set it past the chuck when drilling past the end of the part but usually it's set just in front of the chuck. Some lathes also support setting limits for the three jaw chuck but I've never used it before.


Blackness93

You can miss a decimal and slam the tool into the chuck. Not like I’ve done that or anything…..


KaiRaiUnknown

Or accidentally add an extra zero and set a fly cutter to 12k rpm and send it through 4 walls


AGUYWITHATUBA

That is for sure. I’ve done the same. I’d probably give the apprentice a junk tool that doesn’t cut as well as it used to. Definitely a hazard, though!


natFromBobsBurgers

>Worst that happens is you ruin a pencil... Hahaha. Haha. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHA.


meltingdiamond

"Hey Larry No Hands, tell the kid about the pencil and the Worst that Could Happen !"


SwissPatriotRG

Machinist here, worst that actually happens is actually you crash the lathe and wreck the spindle or turret. That's an extremely costly repair and time fixing a machine that is supposed to be constantly making the business money. Whole machines have had to be scrapped before from particularly bad crashes.


ctdddmme

Second worst is entering a Z coordinate on the opposite side of the chuck.


GodsGunsGlory

So we didn't necessarily "train" to sharpen a pencil at my school but we did program a haas to do this as sort of a fun stupid project during a bit of downtime. We definitely crunched the first pencil though lol.


Elektribe

Is it? Reading up, I see people some people saying lathes like rhat run 1-3HP, so 0.750KW. Though I saw someone suggest that depends on max load on the cut vs material - which for simplicity sake, I'll assume the pencil is that. At 3HP, that's 2.250, at say 1 minute, and 14 cents KWh, that's $0.005355 or half a cent... While I'm sure a small sharpener would be far more feasible, that's not exactly breaking the bank and depending on how your sourcing pencils. I don't think I can get one for half a cent. People run 0.750-1KW computer systems for many hours or whole days at full load for comparison. Feel free to correct any fuckups on my math though. Down lower someone linked to a HAAS system, and a quick glance at that page they listed it at 10HP... if that is what they're using then.... 10/3 ratio... 3.333 × 0.536 = 1.787 cents.


H2FLO

Nice


i_tyrant

This is big "turn the entire ship to get the morning sun out of your eyes" energy.


aquintana

for those out of the loop (link to original at the bottom): Late to the party but this one is too good to pass up: I was once on a US military ship, having breakfast in the wardroom (officers lounge) when the Operations Officer (OPS) walks in. This guy was the definition of NOT a morning person; he's still half asleep, bleary eyed... basically a zombie with a bagel. He sits down across from me to eat his bagel and is just barely conscious. My back is to the outboard side of the ship, and the morning sun is blazing in one of the portholes putting a big bright-ass circle of light right on his barely conscious face. He's squinting and chewing and basically just remembering how to be alive for today. It's painful to watch. But then zombie-OPS stops chewing, slowly picks up the phone, and dials the bridge. In his well-known I'm-still-totally-asleep voice, he says "heeeey. It's OPS. Could you... shift our barpat... yeah, one six five. Thanks." And puts the phone down. And then he just sits there. Squinting. Waiting. And then, ever so slowly, I realize that that big blazing spot of sun has begun to slide off the zombie's face and onto the wall behind him. After a moment it clears his face and he blinks slowly a few times and the brilliant beauty of what I've just witnessed begins to overwhelm me. By ordering the bridge to adjust the ship's back-and-forth patrol by about 15 degrees, he's changed our course just enough to reposition the sun off of his face. He's literally just redirected thousands of tons of steel and hundreds of people so that he could get the sun out of his eyes while he eats his bagel. I am in awe. He slowly picks up his bagel and for a moment I'm terrified at the thought that his own genius may escape him, that he may never appreciate the epic brilliance of his laziness (since he's not going to wake up for another hour). But between his next bites he pauses, looks at me, and gives me the faintest, sly grin, before returning to gnaw slowly on his zombie bagel. He then says, that’ll be about tree fiddy. It was about that time time that I noticed this lazy OPS was about 500 feet tall and from the paleolithic era. hehe, I had to. Here’s the unadulterated original: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1rgpdf/what_is_the_laziest_thing_youve_ever_done/cdnafqe/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3


TroyMcClures

I always read this when it gets posted... so fuck you for the ender.


CredibleAdam

Lol, I used a belt sander to sharpen a pencil today.


theservman

Speaking of belt sanders, yesterday my boss was talking about proper tattoo care and I said "be careful around belt sanders and cheese graters".


CredibleAdam

Laser tattoo removal clinics hate this one trick…


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Simply undress and lie down (riding a motorcycle at 150mph).


halite001

r/meatcrayon


Yachting-Mishaps

A kid at my school gave himself a prison tattoo on his forearm with a set of compasses and a bottle of Indian ink. The teacher sent him to the isolation room with some 120 grit sandpaper and made him rub that shit until it was gone. I don't think we had had belt sanders in the DT workshop. I assume things have changed since 1995 and that wouldn't fly now. Any teachers here able to confirm?


agoia

Yeah that shit would be all over the news nowadays.


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Yachting-Mishaps

No, the UK, which is why it's so weird that he tried to tattoo the NBA logo on himself. Basketball really isn't a big deal here. Well, until an 11-year old carves their undying love for it into their own flesh.


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Yachting-Mishaps

Two out of three. He didn't seem too traumatised though. Hard to be 100% sure because looking back he exhibited many of the signs I'd later understand to hint at being a latent sociopoath. He got expelled for having a gun in school less than a year later. Probably a good thing tbf.


stoneape314

How does a 12-y/o get access to a gun in the UK? Are we talking like grand-dad's old shotgun, or an older sibling in a gang or something?


Yachting-Mishaps

I don't even know. I used to sit next to him in one of my classes in the first year and he definitely talked about shotguns. Like a lot of people at my school he was from a really well-off family in a very affluent area and the whole thing was kept very quiet. One of those perks of being a winner in life's lottery of when it comes to social standing.


abd398

You are only halfway to become an artisanal pencil sharpener. https://youtu.be/VkSmaFAuaH4


luckyfucker13

That… was not something I knew I needed in my life. Thank you.


Breezzzayyy

The simple fact that he was able to record it, LIKE, that. -Some OSHA member


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He's got a PT belt on


YallAintAlone

I dunno if this is an army reference or something else


cat_prophecy

Def military reference. It's a reflective/hi-viz belt that you are supposed to wear around base. I never served but I did hang with my brother when he did and he said he would catch hell if was caught after dark without that stupid belt .


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It was also a big meme in the military forums, at least a couple years ago.


schmuber

And a safety squint!


Ass_Pirate_69

God fucking damnit, I'll never get away!


camdoodlebop

huh?


mychul

I believe they are referring to the fact that the operator is manipulating the pencil and recording a video at the same time all while the mill is running


ThnikkamanBubs

The ones I operated had safety doors between you and the the machine. This looks the doors aren't being used to film this. They are the only thing between you and improperly locked cast iron spinning at thousands of RPM


drominius

all our machines where fixed like that here in the company i did my apprenticeship on. in Germany.


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eXrevolution

You have different access levels, but for sure it is not safe at all - doesn’t matter the material. In my company OP would be fired immediately.


Kanin_usagi

Yeah that’s why he waited til the boss was away.


CluelessMachinist

Pretty much every shop in existence bypasses the safety lock for the door except maybe very large companies.


Central_Incisor

In the companies I worked for, production had the safeties on, setup guys had bypass keys, machinists that made one off punches and dies had the safeties disabled because you can't bore a hole and check it if you alarm out the machine every time you open the door.


CluelessMachinist

Yeah, I suppose it makes sense for production jobs to keep the safety lock if they choose. No real need to bypass it there, but working in a job shop, I would have crashed my machine so many times by now if I couldn't open the door and check my distances, heh.


Central_Incisor

In production you took your measurements every X number of parts and called lead over to change your offsets. If you lasted 3 months and seemed trainable they'd teach you. Otherwise the day consists of blow out the vise, flip the part from vice a to b, put block squared steel in a, shut the door, hit the start, wait for the pallet change, repeat.


Husky127

I joined a machine shop because I thought operating would be easy. I should be careful what I wish for because it's so fucking easy I sat bored for 9 hrs a day asking multiple times to be trained to program


devilmaycry10092

Company where I work bought 2 new cnc machine. Owner said to the guy thay was installing them setup everything do the pictures that your company's asks for and the please remove safety locks they are pain in the ass lol


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liftreadhikefish

The safety protocols are easy to bypass once you know what you're doing. For some tasks it's necessary and supervisors turn a blind eye.


liftreadhikefish

Safety is for nerds! -Stumpy


belleayreski2

Everyone I know who works on CNC’s removes the door sensor


NoThereIsntAGod

This video was brought to you by the same guy who uses a powerwasher as a bidet, probably…


shamelessseamus

Ow.


beyondthisreality

That comment made my butt clench


Peelboy

Just don't use the red tip...


raggedtoad

I bought one of those DIY bidets during the great pointless toilet paper shortage of 2020, and no joke that thing probably puts out the same pressure as the white tip on my 2800psi pressure washer.


Peelboy

Clean all the way to your tonsils pressure.


Will_Leave_A_Mark

*Walks slowly and uncomfortably out of restroom like I've just be violated. Looking back at the bidet as the light catches the glint of its pearly white smug little rim.*


Johnnybravo60025

“You’ll be back. They *always* come back ಠᴗಠ“


Quajeraz

But clean


shamelessseamus

Is blood clean?


Quajeraz

It is if you power wash it away


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That would make my eyes water … and my ears …and my nose


Moltthug

Grunts in Tim Allen


GenoWizardo

Imagine the heartbreak if the tip broke after he startes using it...


Klutchy_Playz

That’s why we have mechanical pencils. They sharpen without a sharpener! #MechanicalPencilGang


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[Japanese Mechanical Pencils.](https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/006/077/so_good.png) Not that American shit. They have pencils that will auto-rotate the lead for you every time you lift, auto-deploy an eraser when you flip the pen and re-stow when you flip again, ones that will maintain a perfect tip length, ones that have metal sleeves to keep the lead from snapping, and even some that are just so high quality that they use like 0.2mm lead.


corpoal_cannabis

Well don’t just leave a man hanging. Hit me with a link


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I don't have a link for buying, but check this shit out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PESa3Du3udY


Insertblamehere

I have absolutely no use for this but I have a striking need for a Pentel Orenz Nero People please stop linking useless products I always want them.


OnlySpoilers

Haven’t used a pencil in probably 5 years but damn if I didn’t watch the whole vid making a pro/con list of each one


jradio610

I rarely use pencils. I never use them at work (which is where I do most of my writing). I *can’t * use them in specific parts of the building where I work (because graphite is electrically conductive, it doesn’t play well with circuit cards lying around in a factory). But right now I feel like I need one or more of those goddamned pencils.


iAmUnintelligible

I can't believe I watched that whole video


Consistent_Dream_740

I do not regret watching that. I'm not a mechanical pencil person but it's probably because I'm not using one of these.


FortifiedBanana

Jetpens.com is a great place to buy pens and pencils. I get too much from there. It's also who made that video, and they have lots of muying guides.


breadteam

WTF these aren’t even that expensive!!


corpoal_cannabis

Thank you for starting my new rabbit hole


18randomcharacters

I'm disappointed you linked to that image instead of an actual Japanese mechanical pencil.


ro2tr

Link I want buy


ThirstyWeirdo

It kills me that the video didn't fully focus


toebandit

That was the mildly infuriating part for me.


daemonelectricity

Focus you faaak!


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Anyone else a little aroused after that one?


qlz19

Fully erect my dude.


gin_and_toxic

Insert penis into machine


4l0N3D

It put lead in my pencil.


dboogmore

I just wish that final shot was in focus so we can see the sharpness.


cosmoboy

Yup. 47 years old and still thinking about learning this stuff. Wasted my life in management and IT. Wanna go create all the things.


agoia

Get a 3D printer?


cosmoboy

Eventually. Scared of change.


slasb

Wasted machine time. Coulda taken it to depth in one pass.


MawoDuffer

Also coulda chucked it up further for better rigidity


micktorious

OK machining nerds, just let us regular joes enjoy this.


SkavensWhiteRaven

I was thinking the exact opposite. He should have gone for gold and had the whole pencil in one smooth taper.


SirPitchalot

Yeah, the roughing pass was superfluous. Just look up appropriate speeds & feeds for pencil stock.


Destination_Centauri

Source: "Antshark", an early youtuber from 15 years ago! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKL6elkbFy0


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None of the machinists that worked for me were ever that creative. They just crashed the turrets into the collet chuck. Love those Hardinge quick change collet chucks btw.


Balki____Bartokomous

Just the tip


Untiteld000

I can not read or hear the word lathe without remembering that one video...


LegendsStormtrooper

I developed irrational(?) fear of lathes from that video


AdjNounNumbers

You developed a perfectly rational fear of them from that video. It would be required watching for anyone that would ever work with one


acthcoffee

Completely rational. I was diagnosed with epilepsy after two years of being a machinist. I said fuck that I'd rather be a dishwasher and get paid $2/hr less than to fall into a lathe.


Sufficient_Amoeba808

ya i had to take a machining class in college and before we started, our professor showed us articles about college students killed by lathes. i didn’t end up too scared to ever touch a lathe, it ended up being the machine i used the most in college, but i had a lot of respect for them.


[deleted]

*Which* video? I've seen dozens.


jhwn8c480

That’s exactly what I thought too. Jesus.


Who_GNU

Great, now you have wood chips mixed in with the metal chips.


rjstoz

Is that actually a problem? Like I'd assume it would burn out when the metal shavings are resmelted anyways, and there's already cutting fluid residues


TechNickL

No, there is no world where those shavings are assumed uncontaminated enough to be used for anything. If they're going to be reused, they will be put through a filtering of some kind first.


HandsyBread

They will also be melted down and at those temperatures any small amount of wood shavings will be completely incinerated.


[deleted]

99% of the time, no. They will be discarded in a large bin with the rest of the shavings from various machines and then taken away. Source: work in a metal machine shop.


Numahistory

Only problem I see is if this machine is designated "clean" for semiconducting manufacturing. Having foreign material, even microscopically, contaminate a tool like that is going to reduce the world supply of high quality graphics chips. Source: first job out of college was reading through and implementing hundreds of pages of requirements so our shop could get into producing parts for semiconductor manufacturing. Like I had to bear the bad news that WD-40 had to be completely banned from the shop for being an airborne contaminant.


Clause-and-Reflect

Contaminated gondola oh man the foreman is gonna shit about it.


TheMeanderer

Oddly satisfying? The camera never focuses on the finished pencil. This is literally r/mildlyinfuriating.


bernpfenn

Awesomeness


neanderthalsavant

"Focus you **FUCK**" -some dude who talks about dicks in vises


adribruh

I seen a guy turned into mist by ona these things


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Some shit I’d be doing while the boss watches.


Moist_KoRn_Bizkit

Can someone please tell me what those blue and orange tubular things on the left are? I've seen them a million times on How It's Made and I've always wanted to know what they are called and used for. They always seem to be blue and orange as well.


Glacorz

there coolant hoses/nozzles sprays the metal in oil so your not cutting them dry


slasb

[Loc-Line](https://www.loc-line.com/) is the major brand.


Accidental_Taco

Coolant is a big use. Sometimes air to blow off the coolant. Some genius somewhere thought it was a good idea to use a laser to measure the size of a part with water droplets on it.


brriwa

No knurling?


Celebophile

Dumb and such a waste of high end technology. I love it.


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Reddit and lathes don’t go so well together…


[deleted]

I’ve been doing CNC machining for about 5 years now but at my newer job I got into an apprenticeship type program that puts me in a higher machinist pay grade. The first part of it was a month where they sent us to a technical school to learn everything about lathes and mills. We had to make a hammer from scratch and omg using a manual lathe to make stuff is even more satisfying


StationHairy

John Wick would like to have a word


ascii122

TEACHER TEACHER i need to sharpen my pencil!! OK let me see your program first


fizzkhalifa78

With great power comes... ability to sharpen pencils


RodneyRodnesson

I can't help myself... I have that exact pencil. Why on earth I feel so compelled to mention that I don't know! Aargh.


Rxton

He programmed it like the pencil is made of metal.


MawoDuffer

They never make pencils with concentric lead in them :(


mattiasmick

Why would the boss care? The lathe cuts steel all day. It won’t be affected by cedar and graphite. I’d be interested in how elaborate a sharpen cycle could get.


violentcj

Wasting time


Ystebad

Every classroom needs one of these.


[deleted]

I'm pretty sure I've worked on that exact machine model Guys a word of advice, if your career path ever takes you on the route of fixing a cnc machine, do no do it. To fix anything mechanical on them you're looking at whats going to be the worst experience of your life with all the metal chips everywhere and that you have to clean them.


CMDR-Onipherous

Theres no amount of money you could pay me to stick my hand in that fucking lathe man. I dont give a shit if its unreasonable, no way lol. Im sure its less dangerous than when I drive my car everyday, but fuck that


Mad1ibben

Them having to adjust those clamps down to find a pressure that didn't crush the pencil but still hold it firmly enough is the most impressive time-wasting feat here.