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Dan025

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well i'm here again saying this but i got a new job. seems to be a once a year thing for me but hopefully i can keep this one without it affecting my health like the last one. i hope there are a few projects in my future. it's been too long...
 
Congrats Dano, I know where you're coming from, I had to start over after 25yrs, I've been at my new job for almost 7 months. It's a strange thing to have to start over..
 
DangerousR6 said:
Congrats Dano, I know where you're coming from, I had to start over after 25yrs, I've been at my new job for almost 7 months. It's a strange thing to have to start over..

Hey Doug,  How is it going with your new family?  Hope all is well! 
Peace to you &  :rock-on:

NOW BACK TO YOUR REGULAR SCHEDULED PROGRAM...


 
Black Dog said:
DangerousR6 said:
Congrats Dano, I know where you're coming from, I had to start over after 25yrs, I've been at my new job for almost 7 months. It's a strange thing to have to start over..

Hey Doug,  How is it going with your new family?  Hope all is well! 
Peace to you &  :rock-on:

NOW BACK TO YOUR REGULAR SCHEDULED PROGRAM...
Doing pretty good, I still miss my old peeps, but I'm settling in pretty good. I've actually become pretty popular with some stiff shirts, they found out I can weld aluminum and are wanting me to get certified to weld aircraft parts.. :icon_thumright:
 
thanks for the comments. guys. my last job was a machine shop that worked with carbon. the equipment was antiquated and the dust collectors were always clogged. kinda like working in a coal mine and after 6 months i was coughing up puss and getting chronic bloody noses. this isn't the cleanest shop i've seen but i can breath inside so that's a plus. i'll have to work 3rd shift after training but it pays well.

congrats doug on the welding stuff.

i was in the airforce and at one time was certified to weld on ballistic missiles in 7 metal groups(not that i ever actually welded a missile but i have done fuel tanks and engine componants). but military certs don't work in the civilian world. i'd have to start all over to get into aviation welding. most companies that do engine rebuilds for aircraft don't pay squat, an old supervisor of mine left the air national guard as a crew chief for a job welding engine componants, and he was paid so poorly he started over in the active duty airforce as a machinist and welder as an e-3 or e-4.

it's the job shops that do the repairs on civilian equipment that make the money it seems. a guy locally was a marine corp helicopter crew chief and is now a private mechanic for a wealthy guy he wouldn't name. he told me if i got an airframe license he could get me welding work for helicopter exhausts which he says he gets billed $600+ for crack that are no more than an inch long. from my experience that can be about 1/2 hour worth of work, then again if you are doing it right you are doing some sort of ndi to check for cracks, porosity, and inclusions and doing post weld heat treatment depending on the metal. i could go for $1200/hr but i'd need to go to school since my mos is not likely to work towards work experience for an airframe license (it's actually completely up to the judgement of an faa inspector) and i'd need capital to open a shop of my own.
 
Dan0 said:
thanks for the comments. guys. my last job was a machine shop that worked with carbon. the equipment was antiquated and the dust collectors were always clogged. kinda like working in a coal mine and after 6 months i was coughing up puss and getting chronic bloody noses. this isn't the cleanest shop i've seen but i can breath inside so that's a plus. i'll have to work 3rd shift after training but it pays well.

congrats doug on the welding stuff.

i was in the airforce and at one time was certified to weld on ballistic missiles in 7 metal groups(not that i ever actually welded a missile but i have done fuel tanks and engine componants). but military certs don't work in the civilian world. i'd have to start all over to get into aviation welding. most companies that do engine rebuilds for aircraft don't pay squat, an old supervisor of mine left the air national guard as a crew chief for a job welding engine componants, and he was paid so poorly he started over in the active duty airforce as a machinist and welder as an e-3 or e-4.

it's the job shops that do the repairs on civilian equipment that make the money it seems. a guy locally was a marine corp helicopter crew chief and is now a private mechanic for a wealthy guy he wouldn't name. he told me if i got an airframe license he could get me welding work for helicopter exhausts which he says he gets billed $600+ for crack that are no more than an inch long. from my experience that can be about 1/2 hour worth of work, then again if you are doing it right you are doing some sort of ndi to check for cracks, porosity, and inclusions and doing post weld heat treatment depending on the metal. i could go for $1200/hr but i'd need to go to school since my mos is not likely to work towards work experience for an airframe license (it's actually completely up to the judgement of an faa inspector) and i'd need capital to open a shop of my own.
Ewwww, ya carbon is some nasty stuff to work with. The last job I had we did a lot of EDM work with graphite, very nasty work, I like using the machine, but the dialectic fluid and graphite sucks to work with. The company I work for now is all air force planes, sometimes planes for the navy, I'd basically be welding aluminum and stainless, sometimes some inconel. But it does pay good for us, a top class A tig welder makes about $30hr and a class A tool builder(which is actually what I am) with A&P make about $35hr. For this town that's good, in the DFW area tool builders make about $45 and hr. But civilian aircraft welders start out about $16hr.
 
yeah edm machines are cool. i can buy a used one from a guy i know but i don't have work for it. maybe i can start making carbide guitar parts or something ridiculous.
 
Dan0 said:
yeah edm machines are cool. i can buy a used one from a guy i know but i don't have work for it. maybe i can start making carbide guitar parts or something ridiculous.
LOL, those would be some heavy ass guitar parts...But EDM's are pretty rad, the one we had was just a ram style, but the really rad edm's are the cnc and wire edm's, you can do some crazy stuff with those.
 
yeah this guy waisted stupid money on all this equipment at auctions after a lot of the industry dried up. he has sinker edm machines of all sizes and tells me about the glory days of making things for ibm. he also has 3 wire edm machines.
 
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