New England B.S. Thread

I was the guy who usually manned the keg... after that, I fall off your plan.

 

Yeah, if only I had an extra $100k laying around... there'd be SO many other things I'd be more likely to buy instead.

 

My background from college was machining - spent more time in the northeastern machine shop than I did in class. Also helped machine 80% of my graduating class' capstone projects. I think every mechanical engineer should have a background in machining or some skills with it. I swear we're getting engineers coming in that barely know how to use a screwdriver and are designing stuff that's impossible to machine. I'm one of the few people who can use the machine shop here besides the machinist and I love it. I'd rather be in there than behind a desk on CAD...

Worse thing we ever did was hire a guy with 3d printing background... he thinks anything that can be printed can be machined. He lasted 6 months before he left just out of pure misery of rejected drawings and parts.

 

No Pro Grill yet - I am painting my "Mick Jagger" chees grader" grill like the ones in the link below - I think it will look good on the magnetic gray color - almost done - I bought one off ebay for $70 just in case I screw it up - I will still have my original -
https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/bbp-color-keyed-grille-mod.398636/

thers is a magnetic gray one in the thread someone else did and it came out way better than the all chrome grill

 

Yeah, that's what I meant by literally laying around. There'd have to be a lot of other things taken care of long before I drop $100k on a truck like that. I'd have to be in a position where I had $100k of play money sitting there burning a hole in my pocket.

 

Yeah, additive manufacturing is nothing like machine work. Working with him must have been a real hoot.

 

Yea man I hear that from a lot of people, it's better to know before than to try to learn machining after becoming a ME. I've got a little over 3 years in shop experience, with 2 years being manual work.

Adding material is a lot different than subtracting it lol

 

I'm a software engineer, which is not at all like the rest of you engineers.

I use black magic to make something out of nothing. None of it makes sense, not even to other software engineers, and none of it is simple. But hey, I love it!

 

There are ~3,500 software engineers at the company I work for haha

 

Nice! No clue how many here, company is ~400,000 but I can't imagine that being all software engineers.

 

I nearly failed the few programming courses I took.

I absolutely hated it. I like networking much better. I actually enjoy writing configs for Cisco stuff, subnetting, planning and deploying WAPs, etc. and troubleshooting it.

 

I can totally relate because I'm the exact opposite. The few networking courses I took were either super confusing or they seemed like a previously solved problem that someone wanted me to learn. Much respect for enjoying it!

 

Yeah, a lot of people don't like networking.

Ironically, I'm not good at math but subnetting is a piece of cake to me. I don't do it often, but I can more or less do it in my head.

 

I used to mess with him - everytime he was looking for something in the labs or the shop I would be like dude.. just print it..

We had an intern that didn't know what a Phillips head screwdriver was... He called it the cross head....

 

Ok I'll join. Engineer here too, electrical, we make RF and microwave assemblies to be used in radar and communication systems.

 

I have a friend who consistently calls a slotted screwdriver a "straight blade screwdriver." I work with him so often on stuff that I caught myself doing it.

 

It doesnt need anything. To be streetable it would take new front blinkers, a headlight control and windshield wiper control stalk, and a shady inspection place. The headlight and wiper stalks were taken off to do the removable steering wheel.

 

Jesus, how did he not even know that?

 

Darth Maul is my fave. I have the R2D2 soda cooler

 

I drank the keg