Earn an extra income as a lathe machine operator online

When we are talking about mechanical engineering, we can’t forget the lathe machine. The lathe machine helps engineers and technicians to maintain machineries and help production lines also. As a lathe machine operator, you may have a good income by serving the mechanical engineering field. But, have you ever know that you can earn an extra income of over 2000$ per month even by creating non-engineering items, crafts, and many other items using the lathe machine? Not only active income methods, but they’re also passive income methods you can earn using your lathe machine.

This article will discuss those methods and give you valuable ideas to earn an extra income as a lathe operator. Read the article, and don’t forget to join this discussion by commenting on your practical ideas and experiences. 

Produce and sell day –To-day life products using metals.

There are millions of people who like to use more durable products which operate in day-to-day life. In this economic system, the companies used to produce products for lower prices. Because of that, they had to use cheaper and non-durable raw materials to create those items.

So those people who don’t like to use non-durable items keep looking for durable items made using suitable raw materials. As an example, some people used to write using pens, which have metal barrels. They can replace the ink chamber when the chamber is finished.

Just like that example, if you expand your thinking, you can see many ideas in your surroundings that can turn into excellent and fair money. You can create those using your machine shop, and if you want an engineering drawing for those items, you can find a freelancer on a freelancer website. After producing a sample item, you can list it on an online marketplace where we have talked about in our previous articles on this website.  

Here are some valuable day-to-day life product ideas that can catch up with the customers          

Metal Ballpoint Pens

Most people don’t like to use plastic ballpoint pens in the world. Some prefer refilling pens, and most people want to use ballpoint pens that made their barrels using brass metal. Brass metal pens have a radiant look, and bras metal have an excellent demand after finishing the item with polishing. You can check for “Brass pen” for amazon.com, Etsy.com, or any other online market platform, and you can realize how to demand these have. Some designs may sell for over 50$, and most designs sold for around 30$. You can use a Ballpoint pen refilling stick and design the pen barrel relevant to that refilling stick.

  Producing this pen is not that hard. There are thousands of referring videos on YouTube that making these pens using lathe machines. 

Pen Holders

Like the ballpoint pens, pen holders also have a good demand if those are made using metals or wood. There are thousands of people over the world who love wood products, the same as brass products. The world becomes green day by day, and you can help with that effort by your little production. If you search for metal pen holders or wood pen holders for online marketplaces, you can see thousands of products, and those items are sold more than 100 times per month. As discussed above section, you can get ideas for making these pen holders watching YouTube videos. 

Lamps

Lamps that are produced using wood have a reasonable demand on online marketplaces. You can design your unique design and make it more comfortable and user-friendly for customers. You can add rings and fancy styles using metals such as brass and aluminum. Bulb holders can be bought wholesale, and you can design the product according to those bulb holders and bulbs.

Bowls

Bowls are also having a reasonable demand on online marketplaces. If you are a well-skilled lathe operator, it is straightforward to make these bowls using your lathe. You can use these using your wood lathe or your universal lathe also. After getting a better finishing with polishing the bowls, you can catch up with a better customer base.

Chess pieces and chessboard

This idea is fantastic and market-winning if you enter selling chess pieces with chess boards using brass, aluminum, or wood. If you can’t create chess boards, you can buy them and produce chess pieces. After making, you can sell the chess set together. All the chess pieces can be easily produces using brass and aluminum but the knight. But, if you have expanded ideas, you can make your four knights for your chess set within your milling machine. If you check for these chess sets for online marketplaces, you can see many designs, and you can see most of them are selling over 250$.

Share your skills on YouTube.

As a lathe machine operator, you may have a good experience, and why you don’t share those with other lathe operators, Engineering students, and Machining lovers? If you check for lathe machine help videos on YouTube, you can see a substantial organic audience for those machining talks.

Some Youtubers used to teach the theoretical thing to students worldwide, and some YouTubers share their experiences. Most Youtubes videography their day-to-day machining jobs and posts them on YouTube without saying any word. I have noticed that those videos passed more than 5 million views in a year.

In addition to that, you can videography new projects, your machining strategies and your new ideas, challenges faced to machining parts, and how they overcome those challenges. There are millions of people waiting to watch your strategies all over the world. Especially if you are experienced over 15 years, this idea works for you. After completing the google Adsense requirements on your Youtube channel, you can monetize your channel and earn some good passive income.

In addition to lathe machines, you can teach and talk about other appliances like Milling machines, shaper machines, drilling machines, etc. By talking about those other machines, you can grow your audience day by day. If you create quality content within the educational value, it may help to increase someone’s knowledge of machining.

I hope you have taken some good ideas about earning an extra income as a lathe machine operator. Maybe you are a lathe machine owner, or you can make these by hiring a lathe operator. I request you post your valuable ideas and experiences about what I talked about in the comment section.

All these ideas are based on my research about online marketing, and different results may occur.

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