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

How about this - you know you're a hobby machinist (or professional, either way) when you can tell the size and pitch of a threaded part by either the grease stain or the cut it leaves on your finger.
 
you are trying to figure out how to make your own machines even when you don't own any yet.
you are trying to make a new machine, and in the end costing you the same, if not more, as a used working old machine.
you think you can build a new manual machine better than anything out there.
 
You might be an advanced Hobby Machinist when You can look at (most) bolts and tell if it's Metric because the pitch does not "look" right.
 
When you buy a home and the detached garage is larger than the house.
 
Ray C said:
When you spend 8 hours a day 5 days a week at an unrelated day-job and 6 hours every evening and 10 hours each on Saturday and Sunday in your garage shop.
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I work on computers (servers) for a living and this hits home.
 
You know you are a Hobby-Machinist (and one on a strict budget) when you cut rabbets with a saw rather than with a router bit, to save that 10×15 mm strip of material which could always be useful for something else.

(I have some buckets of "useful" strips)
 
You can't bear to throw away any non working appliance, or anything else with some metal in it because you might need something from it for a project in the future. If you stay at it long enough you have to build a new storage building just to hold "might be useful in the future junk".

Confirmed junkaholic,
Dave
 
You know you are a noob Hobby-Machinist when you compile a list of 15 or so projects you want to do and they're all for making improvements on your imported bench top mini-machines.

You know you are a noob Hobby-Machinist when you try to arrange your project list so that you make some improvements on your mill, so you can make some improvements on your lathe, so you can make some more improvements on your mill, so you can make some more improvements on your lathe...

You know you are a Hobby-Machinist when you sit down at 10pm to start going through the latest Hobby-Machinist's Shop Notes email and when you check the time again, it's 2:58am
 
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