PM has quite a few helpful people (I'm one of them ) but like any other board- even this one- it has a few loudmouths and jerks. You see it everywhere.ĭon't let it bother you. The guy that runs a thirty-foot-long machine that has metal removal rates measured in tons per hour looks down on the guy that's just building a little brass steam engine. In other cases, it's simply the typical rivalry you'll see in any undertaking. In some cases it's the annoyance they they did a seven-year apprenticeship and spent years in college to get a document that officially declares them to be a Machinist, and then they see some guy with a cheap import desktop machine in his basement who also calls himself a machinist. However, a fair number of "professional" machinists, I've found, have little tolerance of the home-shop types. Neither one is "better" than the other, it's simply two different sides of the same coin. On the other hand, the owner of PM wants to keep that site "professional", and attract professional machinists. This one, as the name and magazine implies, is for home shop machinists. I asked the same question on Practical Machinist-You have to remember these are two entirely different boards. Home Cutting Tools Keyseat / Milling Cutters HSS T-Slot Cutters 2400-.250-TSLOT.
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