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Machining.

No child left without a 5-axis milling machine!

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Titan's of CNC and Haas both have great youtube channels addressing training because of exactly this.

>Titan's of CNC and Haas both have great youtube channels addressing training because of exactly this.

I would love to get into aerospace manufacturing. Any chance a code monkey can make the switch? What is the entry level pathway like?

Sort of related but I, a 28 year old tech guy, am going back to school part-time to get a BEng so I can get into more aerospace-heavy roles. It'll take 6 years but I'm currently happy with my work so am not in a rush. Currently I work in networking/search for a defense startup so it's tangentially related.

>Sort of related but I, a 28 year old tech guy, am going back to school part-time to get a BEng so I can get into more aerospace-heavy roles.

Best of luck to you friend. Absolutely worth it if you can hack it. I tried at 26 after a few years in the industry, and failed miserably. Protip: pay for a good math tutor.

It's the technician life for me, unfortunately.

aerospace -> code monkey seems to be the more common route to me but that might be sample bias

I've just noticed FlexCNC machines for the first time. It's a bridge CNC with a long bed, they start at $209,000, so I'm not getting one... but the idea of a CNC bed sufficiently long that you don't need pallet swapping, you just load jobs wherever the bridge isn't, seems like it could be quite productive.

They use a helical rack instead of a ball screw, which makes sense in 50 foot long machines. It's welded construction, so no huge castings, quite interesting.

We're going to need a lot of machining here in the US as the world deglobalizes.

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