Billet used in a sentence

Billet in a sentence as a noun

The Marines assigned me to a billet in the LAN team at my new command.

People with a manual or cnc mill in their garage are making ar15 lower receivers from billet aluminum.

It seems to me that to make a billet you'd need to cast that first...As a related question: Is one method more energy efficient than the other?

On one of these, a billet melted in a reheat furnace, throwing off the schedule and threatening the ability to get back to rolling steel.

Definitely expensive, i know billet aluminum knuckles for corvettes run about $1500/piece.

Billet in a sentence as a verb

At what point is a block of billet aluminum, CNC machines and / or STL files going to require "government oversight"?Technically a felon could sharpen a stick and stab someone.

The challenge of being a contractor embedded in a unit is that ultimately, someone procured the billet spot for you, and often thinks of you as another resource to be tasked.

Per the article and what I understand, there's moderately skilled work required in sourcing and perhaps adjusting the right CAM data for a complete billet -> lower receiver machining job. Plus a lot more machining involved; as I understand it, a drill press can finish an 80% receiver.

Any organisation that creates a "Civil Liberties Impact" department, really needs to think about its basic job function !Then again, as a UK citizen, I thought the fourth amendment was not letting soldiers billet in your house.