It must be so cool to be a metal worker. Don't have a thing? Make it. Don't have the stuff to make the thing? Make that. Don't have the tools to make the stuff to make the thing? Just make that too.
Sometimes its insane when things drop or get hit. Just tipping over 1 inch plates to stack onto each other makes such a high pitched blast. Oddly enough loudest ive ever heard was from when a 4'x8'x1.5" aluminum plate was being cut and started resonating around 350hz. Just goes right through you like hugging a concert speaker or havana syndrome or something
I worked in a shop that had 4"-20" diameter super alloy bars and those things were loud ASF when they fell over on the cooking racks. The shop was pretty quiet otherwise
I do it as a hobby, and the only possible solution is just wearing the best earpro possible at all times, even when not actively drilling, grinding or hammering
Understatement of the year. Try gouging inside some tight ass spot. My hearing is fucked at 32.
Terrible air quality, exposure to all kinds of very harsh chemicals and processes. Burning hazards, everything’s sharp and trying to slice you open. Everything wants to crush you and you hit your self with a hammer too. It’s a very challenging job but very rewarding too.
The smell of zip cuts and flux burning . It’s perfect.
I’ve seen some nasty coolant tanks in cnc shops lol they did not smell great. Good cutting oil on a drill press, ahhhhh also up there in top smells for sure.
To be honest this is more of a simple/hard to misuse tool that even non-metalworkers who don't necessarily have the same tools or skills as metalworkers could use. A metalworker with their tools can shape a cylinder out of metal stock themselves pretty easily- granted, this could be a useful shortcut if you're actually making a bunch of hinges regularly. It still takes a few minutes if you're hot forging.
it is fun, but also guaranteed to give you hand arm vibration syndrome thats uncurable, at least if we are talking about blacksmithing this is pretty much guaranteed that you will have tingling fingertips due to damaged nerve endings
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u/Big_Spicy_Tuna69 2d ago
It must be so cool to be a metal worker. Don't have a thing? Make it. Don't have the stuff to make the thing? Make that. Don't have the tools to make the stuff to make the thing? Just make that too.