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[Powder keg]

Hey, I was thinking it would be fun to see what everyone does during the day. I'm a foreman in a machine shop and operate a CNC mill. here is a quick picture of a recent job. It is a gear box that I am modifying. It measures 48" tall X 28" wide X about 12" thick. I'm boring a 5" hole with a 1.5" endmill hanging out 14". This box weighs about 4500 pounds when it's assembled. There are 3 gears that are 6" thick that go in it.

Later, Wes

 

[rake60]

I spend an average of 50 hours a week fighting with this thing.

I'm more then 40 years older that that machine, but it has no respect for age!
IT knows what IT wants and that will be the final word, end of discussion.

There are day's I'd like to give it good swift kick in the hard drive, but it has
6 of them... Which one to kick? :-\

Rick

 

[itowbig]

well this is what i do towing ;D ;D having fun

I love it

 

[Brass_Machine]

Sid... itowbig... no kidding! thats some stuff

Really can't post pictures of what I do. Very very boring to look at. I stare at a PC screen all day... I.T. Work

Eric

 

[Cedge]

I'm not about to present photographic evidence of my day job. It's a bit demeaning to be the automatic door opener for a large testy house cat. If he could pay the mortgage and open the cat food... I'd probably be homeless...LOL

Steve

 

[GailInNM]

Model engine preliminary design center.

 

[rake60]

Cool toys you get to play with Sid!

My brother is an Executive Vice President of a company
called Jerr-Dan
They manufacture those toys.
Perhaps you've heard of them...

Rick

 

[Kludge]

Let's see ... what do I do. Aside from the usual, enjoy sights like these, the moonsets on a roughly 28 day cycle and the sunsets pretty much every night.

It's a hard life but someone has to do it. 8)

 

[DickDastardly40]

http://maps.google.co.uk/?ie=UTF8&ll=50.712697,-2.021447&spn=0.001868,0.002151&t=h&z=18

I work here, pic must have been taken on the weekend and is about 16 months old as no activity, usually boats everywhere.

My job entails overseeing the maintenance of just about every boat you see in the picture that isn't a white gin palace, my avatar is the stern view of one of the boats pair of rolls-royce jet drives.

Al

 

[Bogstandard]

Until I had an accident at work, I used to set and run one of these machines, usually with a nice looking shapely packer on the end of it, but sometimes with a rather plain 50+ know it all hag, that run you ragged when they thought there was a problem, in that case, you stayed at the opposite end of the machine.

http://www.w-d.de/site/W_D/Products...E;jsessionid=28D39BA7F05C99F8158D45139188E540

About 70ft long, makes up to about 20 envelopes a second from plain paper reels, weighing 1/2 ton, and a few miles in length. Prints inside and outside of the envelope, up to five separate colours and up to two windows on each envelope. Usually took about 5 hours to change between jobs, that sometimes only run for 30 mins, then onto another 5 hour change.

Do I miss doing the job, like I would enjoy having a six inch nail in the forehead. But the pay of over $60k (excluding overtime) a year came in handy, plus only working 3x12 hour shifts per week gave a lot of time for other things. Shame it is now impossible to return to the job, body gave up a while back.

John

 

[Twinsquirrel]

Ah the joys of paper handling John, my first job after my apprenticeship was as a field tech for Pitney Bowes working on their 9 series folder inserters http://www.setcomco.com/INSERTER_SERIES09.HTM

Now after many years in rugged military systems I have a small business which turns this:

Into this:

David

 

[Bogstandard]

David,

In another part of the factory they had a load of Pitney Bowes inserters.

Nice body (the car), now I know where to come to get the dings fixed.

John

 

[rake60]

Now this is a GREAT THREAD.

Kudos to Wes for starting it!

Come guys, show us where YOU work.

Rick

 

[Twinsquirrel]

In another part of the factory they had a load of Pitney Bowes inserters.

I wish I had hung on to a few of the very nice servo motors they used, would have been VERY handy for a cnc conversion.

Nice body (the car), now I know where to come to get the dings fixed.

No problem, I could always squeeze you in.

 

[kvom]

I worked as a programmer and technology geek for 36 years. Retired 3 years ago, with my last 6 work years being with smallish companies developing internet banking applications. Nowadays the only programming I do is for solving recreational math problems on the website projecteuler.net.

 

[CrewCab]

now I know where to come to get the dings fixed.

David my Landrover could probably keep one of your guys busy for a week ;D ......... though to be fair the dings really add to the character ................ or in other words the ding money is probably going on a dro for the little Mill

As for me, I could be up a ladder, down a hole, behind a circular saw or in a meeting somewhere .......... or (too often) sat looking at the bloomin computer, for the last week I've been replacing some double glazed units and repainting windows .......... not my favourite occupation but it helps pay the bills ???

Next time we do something interesting I'll take some pics, generally we build things, but more to the point we are far better at mending broken buildings.

CC

 

[lugnut]

I worked here for 30 years: https://inlportal.inl.gov/portal/server.pt?open=512&objID=255&mode=2&in_hi_userid=200&cached=true
Now "WORK" is just another four letter word ;D
Mel

 

[shred]

Ah the joys of paper handling John, my first job after my apprenticeship was as a field tech for Pitney Bowes working on their 9 series folder inserters http://www.setcomco.com/INSERTER_SERIES09.HTM

Now after many years in rugged military systems I have a small business which turns this:
Into this:

David

Hey.. that looks just like my S2K... I bet shipping if I ever ding it up is going to be through the roof.

I managed to delete my last post, but I do R&D on what devices you lot will be using to play games and surf the internet for porn, er, work on, in 2-3 years.. As you can see from the pic, that involves two screens of internet and one of e-mail off to the side..

 

[rake60]

I worked here for 30 years: https://inlportal.inl.gov/portal/server.pt?open=512&objID=255&mode=2&in_hi_userid=200&cached=true
Now "WORK" is just another four letter word ;D
Mel

Damn a Fed!

Honest Mel, I only made that still to improve the quality of the paint remover I needed
to prep the old Tracker for some touch up work.
I'd NEVER consider drinking it!
:big:

Seriously, speaking of work, my wife and Mom are on a genealogy kick here.
Last weekend we were at a cemetery where my Mom's family is high o the permanent
residence list. She has a uncle buried there who died in his early 20's.
Seems he's mixed up a bad batch of "corn cider" in the probation years and
thought he should test it out.

And they say machinists have a hazardous job!

Rick

 

[Bernd]

Worked here for over 30 years. http://www.gleason.com/ Right out of high school in '69 to the year 2000. The old ticker couldn't take it anymore. Triple bypass. Now retired and trying to do everything I dreamed about doing while at work, only a lot slower. :big:

Bernd