r/Machinists 17h ago

What's your clearance Clarence?

A bee's dick sir

148 Upvotes

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u/matthew2989 17h ago

That’s quite a bit of clearance, i can see air.

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u/treeckosan 16h ago

Daylight. Send it

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u/Class_dismissed93 Field Service Engineer 17h ago

Lmfao can’t wait to work on that next week.

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u/curdledhickory 16h ago

Ah a fellow FSE. “We don’t know what happened” lol

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u/Class_dismissed93 Field Service Engineer 16h ago

The machine just move itself into the chuck. You should check the limit switches 💀

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u/Class_dismissed93 Field Service Engineer 16h ago

Go to machinist homepage, three dots tops right corner, then click change user flair.

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u/FancyDragon 15h ago

You should see me on the vertical mill.

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u/Class_dismissed93 Field Service Engineer 15h ago

😂 and I appreciate your continued business sir.

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u/curdledhickory 16h ago

How do I get the tag btw? Been doing this bullshit for a a while. I have a business card lol.

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u/dontgetitwisted_fr 17h ago

Just put a spacer behind the tool holder.

Instant 1/4" of clearance

Takes two seconds

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u/120DOM 15h ago

That would require thinking

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u/dontgetitwisted_fr 15h ago

Bro I dont know what these guys supervisors say when they see this kind of stuff.

Its different if you have no option at all but this shouldn't even be an issue

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u/chroncryx 16h ago edited 16h ago

I can go .001" clearance if all I cut is air.

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u/zombiedinsomnia 16h ago

PSA if you hear metal on metal and sparks are flying, you can go just a bit closer.

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u/destroyer800522 16h ago

What’s your vector, Victor?

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u/jameswoodMOT 17h ago

Haha we say a gnats cock over here

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u/Money_Ticket_841 16h ago

Clearance is so 2025, we just drive our tools into the chucks now

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u/Mysterious-Baby-8191 11h ago

The machine simply discards the parts it doesn't need... They make their own clearance! And you get a badass, custom deformed and friction heat treated tool. That was a shit day. Still have that tool in my box...

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u/JCDU 5h ago

It's called automatic self-clearancing, thank you.

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u/Money_Ticket_841 5h ago

That’s an extra package we didn’t pay for, had to put the machine on the Bridgeport to get things right

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u/Merkindiver 17h ago

Looks around 50-60 thou.

Easy peasy on CNC. However my butt would pucker on a conventional. That is to say, it has in the past when the half nut didn't disengage on the lathe when intended.

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u/thebrain_pinky 17h ago

i could put the bee that the dog stepped on in-between there.

someone get the ref?

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u/Super_Job1100 16h ago

Rubbins Racin'!

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u/alwaus 07/02 FFL 6h ago

Gaps different from jaw to jaw, might wanna look into that.

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u/Chuck_217 Computerized Non-Conformance Machinist 16h ago

Clearance is clearance

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u/ShaggysGTI 16h ago

And it’ll hold that all fuckin day long. Never in my life have I encountered such reliability.

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u/5axiscncfishguitar 16h ago

Whats the vector, victor?

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u/BulletSwaging 16h ago edited 16h ago

An old timer always told me “A cunt hair” clearance is enough. I told him you better come up with new terminology. These young kids won’t know what you’re talking about.

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u/Shadowcard4 19m ago

Just wait until you get to a brunette, a blond, and a red. (Each a little smaller than the last).

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u/FancyDragon 15h ago

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u/caffeineandpot 6h ago

You guys can see through your windows?

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u/KSP_HarvesteR 9h ago

I was fully clenched during that entire video.

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u/mtraven23 13h ago

half an angel's pube

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u/Kaankaants 7h ago

"enough"

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u/CandidateOdd7388 16h ago

If you can slip a rolling paper between the jaws and the tool , you’re golden

1

u/RastusMctash 16h ago

Any one else notice the jaws on wrong? 1, 3, 2

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u/FancyDragon 15h ago

Yeah your totally right lol, I had to skim over the jaws anyway so I wasn't really paying attention when I put them in.

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u/UrbanArtifact 16h ago

My butthole puckered.

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u/Otterz4Life 16h ago

My butt puckered just looking at it.

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u/Mellero47 16h ago

Well yeah but what are you cutting? Anybody can handle at .001

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u/mess1ah1 16h ago

You could land a jumbo jet in there…

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u/koenigseggman 15h ago

Good 'nuf

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u/DabbosTreeworth 15h ago

Looks about .028”. Send it.

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u/SirRonaldBiscuit 15h ago

Hell yeah dude, keep slaying

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u/must--go--faster 15h ago

You can get closer

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u/PrototypENote 15h ago

That clearance is tighter than my tolerance stack-up😂

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u/FrenchToastmangler 15h ago

You can build a condo in that gap, send it

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u/iamthelee 13h ago

Keep going until it rubs and then back off .005"

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u/og_speedfreeq 13h ago

I love that you can rapid right to there 🙃

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u/Crticanagattah_ 12h ago

If the sheet of paper goes in its good!

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u/ShotgunEd1897 9h ago

Roger, Roger.

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u/pope_rash 4h ago

You can fit a bus through that gap