You know you are a Hobby-Machinist when....

You know you are a hobby machinist when you change the oil more regularly on your machines than you do on your car, and you keep them cleaner too.

You know you are a hobby machinist when every guy you show your workshop to gasps when the door is first opened, then swears under his breath.

Paul.
 
When You'd buy another machine similar in usage to the one U already have ..........
When You'd only start learning to properly use Your machine after some Years ......... !!!
When You'd order Tooling, U don't immediately need, but think that U would use, at some time in the near future .........
And like it was said earlier..........
When You'd make a contribution on this thread ...........
aRM
 
When you spend a large amount of $$$ for tools, then poor mouth yourself and others that you can't afford the metal to use on the machines!
 
When you keep thousands of dollars worth of machinery , and the most usable you have made so far is a lifetime supply of metal pot scrub for your family and all of your friends...
 
You might be a home machinist if you have every imaginable machine and still only create scrap metal and trinkets for your key ring...

Bob
 
When you visit a machine shop and the first thing you look at is their scrap pile.
 
One of the guys at the local metal supplier has a shelf with "offcuts" just for you.
 
...the owner of the local used tool place has a pile waiting for you when you go in, because he knows those B&S #11 arbors he found will fit your machine!
 
You build something for someone you don't know that you met on a forum for material cost and whatever they will pay extra, even if you spent 18 hours working on it and get $20 for your time.

You spend every possible minute watching youtubes of people making things with metal working machines because it's too cold to be in your shop making chips.

You even watch every second of a youtube of someone that does machining vids but decides to talk about their peronal life and you love every minute of it.

You go to the shop when it finally warms up and just make chips for no reason instead of fixing that old machine you bought or rearrange the shop to make it more pleasant to make chips.

You re-arrange the shop for perfect production even though your only making chips (see above).
 
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