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👤 **About Me:**
Highly skilled 5th-Class Universal Lathe Machinist with extensive toolroom experience. Seeking roles in custom part fabrication, precision tooling, and mold making. Vocational degree. I specialize in high-precision machining from complex blueprints or reverse-engineered worn samples. Master of manual engine lathes (16K20, 1K62) and precision bench lathes.
📈 **Professional Track Record:**
• **Plastics Toolroom (2017–2021):** Fabricated and repaired injection mold components (punches, cavities, guide pins, bushings). Turned hardened steels with minimal stock allowance for final grinding.
• **Precision Machinery Plant (2021–2025):** 5th-Class Toolroom Machinist. Manufactured high-precision threaded connections, calibration gauges, arbors, and machine spindles. Held strict linear and diametric tolerances to 0.0005".
🛠️ **Core Competencies:**
• Machining alloy, tool, and hardened steels, titanium, bronze, and plastics (PTFE, Delrin).
• Metrology: Micrometers, plug gauges, dial indicators, and toolmaker's microscopes.
• Independent tool geometry selection and grinding (HSS, carbide).
• Cutting multi-start, ACME, and special high-precision threads.
✨ **Career Expectations:**
• Target Salary: $60,000 USD annually.
• Seeking a toolroom or precision mold-making role.
• Setup: On-site in Grand Rapids, MI.