Chips Not Dust Machinist T-Shirt, Speeds and Feeds Chart CNC Tee, Machine Shop Gift
If it's dust, you're rubbing, not cutting. This tee puts the machinist's rule in huge type over a real-looking speeds and feeds chart for a 1/2 in carbide end mill, from aluminum to titanium to customer-supplied mystery metal (result: pray). Tolerance Stack is made for the people who hold the numbers: machinists, CAD jockeys, quality inspectors and the engineers who have to explain the drawing to all of them.
What you get
- Front: small left-chest end mill with chips falling onto the stock line, over TOLERANCE STACK and "Chips, not dust." (about 4 in)
- Back: CHIPS / NOT DUST. in big cyan and off-white mono type, a five-row speeds and feeds table (SFM, RPM, IPT, result) and two panels comparing curled chips (heat leaves with the chip) with fine dust (heat stays in the tool)
- Printed with premium DTF transfers and heat-pressed by hand in Charleston, SC
Choose your shirt
- Comfort Colors 1717: heavyweight 6.1 oz garment-dyed cotton, relaxed fit (S–3XL)
- Bella+Canvas 3001: lightweight 4.2 oz Airlume cotton, softer retail fit (S–3XL)
Best on dark shirts: Comfort Colors in Pepper or Black, Bella+Canvas in Black or Navy.
Colors may vary slightly by screen.
Care
Wash inside out in cold water, tumble dry low or hang dry, don't iron the print.
Production & disclosure
Designed by Elevated Designs LLC using digital design tools, with AI assistance. Printed and pressed to order in Charleston, SC.
Tolerance Stack · engineers, machinists and CAD designers — designed by Elevated Designs and printed to order in Charleston, SC.