/diy/ - Do It Yourself

issue with getting into machining is that you don't need a ticket to practice. Especially nowadays with so much CNC.

versus investing your time in getting a ticket say HVAC or Electrical where you need a ticket.

Sad seeing shops sell off all their massive old presses and filling the area with CNC machines.

High Production+Consistent quality makes lots of money.

Lots of the old shops were founded after the WWII by Machinists/Tool & Die Makers(some displaced European immigrants). Manufacturing was growing to so shops grow along with it.

Some of the Old Shops couldn't handle offshore, esp when the Die Making went overseas. Why buy 1 real expensive domestic Die, when you can buy two shoddy Chinese ones, modify them to work and have a spare. So they folded or adapted(CNC production).

Lots of those Tool & Die fellows are dead or retired now. And there isn't much chance to teach new guys. Why teach a new guy to make dies when you can train him to Operate a 5-axis and make more $?

Two generations later the shops are handed down to new generation that aren't Machinists that just wanna run a 'modern' production business or just make $. After two generations of wealth(owners of shops are often well off) the new owners don't have the same mindset of the original founders.

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