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Re: For FRC Student Machinists

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Originally Posted by Otaku View Post
All this machining makes me want to reconsider my career path... I want to be an auto mechanic but dealing with precision measurements and working machines to get good fits and finishes is just way too fun for it's own good. Hell, I broke out my Grizzly catalouge and I got all worked up looking at calipers and mill vices.
One of the guys in the shop class I was in used some of the time to make parts for his truck's clutch. Who says being a mechanic and being a machinist are mutually exclusive?
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