Any Deaf Machinist working for ya?

[Bluegillman]

Wonder how many have a fine deaf machinist all around? I'm one of them. I set up, program and run the Hurco mills. Been doing that for twenty years.

[posix]

my plan is once, if ever, I get the business up and running to employ as many "disabled" as possible. my mom used to employ blind people at the switchboard (back in the day when they were operated by people not computers). a couple even got married! which is nice.

[One of Many]

Originally Posted by Bluegillman Wonder how many have a fine deaf machinist all around? I'm one of them. I set up, program and run the Hurco mills. Been doing that for twenty years.

People I work with Every day! Blind and Deaf blind. Not all are machinists per say. Some run saws, some run punch presses, CNC routers. We have both, manual and CNC operators. They do not program. We do have an in-house programmer that uses GibbsCAM and MasterCAM for that. They do however get a job packet with the information they need to know. Program notes tell them the size and order of their cutters. They set them up in the holders, set tool offsets, origins and run the job independantly after first article inspection.

I have modified some electronic edge finder to be audible rather than LED to assist with setup.

Our CNC mills have voicing software to read the VGA monitor in several different fields for all they need to know during setup and run. The manual mills have DRO's with voice output boxes same as what works with their digital calipers and micrometers.

I sent you a private message Bluegillman.

Glad to see you here! I am still learning ASL, so if had to sign the above paragraph, you would need a shower and a shave by the time I finished. Heheh!

DC

[Sky 5]

I'm not deaf but sometimes I wish I were. A old man that works close to me comes over and tells me very disinteresting stories, like how he lost his cigarette lighter under his car seat, when I'm calculating my tool offsets. It has messed me up several times. Maybe I wish I were invisible!?

[CNCRob]

Originally Posted by Sky 5 I'm not deaf but sometimes I wish I were. A old man that works close to me comes over and tells me very disinteresting stories, like how he lost his cigarette lighter under his car seat, when I'm calculating my tool offsets. It has messed me up several times. Maybe I wish I were invisible!?

It never fails when you are trying to concentrate that will happen. But on those long 10min or longer runs when your just standing there board out of your mind, No one will ever walk up.

[Bluegillman]

Sometimes it's nice to be deaf in some areas. Some days I don't like to hear the boss's Bulls**ts I got too much of that! I do miss alot to hear around me. I can read lips very well and read peoples faces.
I wonder about you guys who can hear have to hear a lot of other noise around you while you're trying to think and program a machine.... I don't think I'm any different from you, one guy would come up and ask me too many questions and got me lost on what I was doing and I ended up crashing the machine for his talking!

[NC Cams]

I have a partner who doesn't/won't listen and doesn't use an ounce of common sense sometimes, does that count????

[Geof]

Originally Posted by Bluegillman Sometimes it's nice to be deaf in some areas. Some days I don't like to hear the boss's Bulls**ts I got too much of that! I do miss alot to hear around me. I can read lips very well and read peoples faces. I wonder about you guys who can hear have to hear a lot of other noise around you while you're trying to think and program a machine.... I don't think I'm any different from you, one guy would come up and ask me too many questions and got me lost on what I was doing and I ended up crashing the machine for his talking!

I'm the boss so I don't have to worry about the b.s. I just tell him to shut up (and then get accused of talking to myself) . But seriously; do you find it sometimes a nuisance that you cannot hear the machine? I 'tune out' the overall shop noise, including people talking, when I am concentrating on programming at particular machine but if the noise made by another machine changes tone I will hear the difference and go over and investigate (sometimes). I have often felt that if I could not hear the machines it would be very inconvenient but maybe it is possible to pick up machine vibrations in some other way; sort of subconciously. I know there are drum players who are deaf; I have seen and heard one called Evelyn Glennie who plays percussion solos for classical orchestras so obviously the inability to hear speech and the ability to sense vibrations are not exactly the same.

[2bitwhore]

Originally Posted by One of Many People I work with Every day! Blind and Deaf blind. Not all are machinists per say. Some run saws, some run punch presses, CNC routers. We have both, manual and CNC operators. They do not program. We do have an in-house programmer that uses GibbsCAM and MasterCAM for that. They do however get a job packet with the information they need to know. Program notes tell them the size and order of their cutters. They set them up in the holders, set tool offsets, origins and run the job independantly after first article inspection. I have modified some electronic edge finder to be audible rather than LED to assist with setup. Our CNC mills have voicing software to read the VGA monitor in several different fields for all they need to know during setup and run. The manual mills have DRO's with voice output boxes same as what works with their digital calipers and micrometers. I sent you a private message Bluegillman. Glad to see you here! I am still learning ASL, so if had to sign the above paragraph, you would need a shower and a shave by the time I finished. Heheh! DC

blind and deaf blind just sounds dangerous in a machine shop with spinning sharp objects i worry about some of the "normal" (nondisabled? what is the proper term for it?) people not getting hurt where i work. it amazes me that someone who cannot see nor hear can find their way thru that kind of environment. kool

[lazyscotsman]

If U can't see or hear it what's to be scared of? sighted people(like me) think this sort of thing is strange/scary/etc. but I guess it's just normallity for those without sight.

I read in a magazine recently about someone interviewing a blind woodworker. He was invited into the wood shop and the interviewee put the light on but explained it was only ever used when he had visitors - he normally worked in the dark!!! To me working with the lights off sounds almost suicidal, but thinking about it what difference does it make to a blind person? It's little things like that that never even cross your mind(if you can see).

A workshop is probably (i'm guessing again) safer than the outside world - at least the machines don't travel at 60mph or more(generally!).