Shop Time w/T.W. Friends

They forgot to send mine out then no one was in the office over the summer so I had to wait until school started the next year to get it.

 

I didn't really want to go to the ceremony but my grandmother traveled from Nebraska to Phoenix AZ for the occasion. I couldn't let grandma down and now that I'm older and she's gone, sure am glad I went. Grandma was so cool.

 

At least in your case you had someone to watch so it was different .

My senior year I put myself on Co Op at a Gunsmiths shop I learned far more there then at school

 

Behind the scenes shots from the senior pictures.

 

More training today. Boring, but it's good to practice I guess. Took apart two valves yesterday with pressure seals, a check and a gate valve. Today is accumulators.
Don't have to leave near as early going the training center.

 

Still training the older gentleman with 30+ yrs experience pushing buttons I guess.
The drum vac hose plugged up and instead of just clearing the hose he came and found me asking what do I do???
Wow really.
Inspection is buried (me) bearing housings and heater block shown.
The bearing housing is 300lbs it has a 10.502+/- .0005 bore.
Also a few .001 and .002 tolerance feature.
The bearings are super expensive so it needs to be right!

 

I was lucky enough to support an operation yesterday with Boeing where they offloaded oxidizer from their Starliner capsule and removed valves that had been intermittently functional.

The valves themselves are being sent to different Space Centers around the country to be evaluated for why they failed. I'm really looking forward to hearing what they come up with. Their techs were seeing corrosion...obviously unacceptable with the quality of stainless that those valves should be made with.

Looks like publicly they are now saying humidity intrusion is to blame. Tests to follow...

 

I can kinda relate your trainee is still more or less new some people really don`t have the do what needs done attitude then ask I hope doing that was ok.

When we got new people on our Millwright crew it took some time to merge even people with 10 plus years experience.

 

Mornings….. who needs ‘em?

 

“Mornings” and “Monday “. They both start with “M”. Coincidence? I think not!

 

Morning,Monday,Money,

 

I like mornings it is the later part of the day when I get mean and Cranky

Yes coworkers did tend to not care for my being a morning person some nothing but grunts till after lunch

 

I've spent the last 3 hours researching a new projector for our conference room.

It was a bit difficult separating my "what should we get for work" brain from my "what would I buy for my theater room" brain.

 

And don't forget about that miserable S-O-B -- MURPHY...

We have spent many quality hours together --
him smugly laughing in the shadows << Murphy
me swearing with gusto and great dedication << Rusty

 

Morning all
Time to get ready for farmers market all weekend with my wife. Got to sell the honey to pay the property taxes of course it the first day of muzzle loader bad planning on my part but more days to sit will be here soon

 

Good morning Friends.

 

It is not Mr. Murphy I had problems with it was his daughters

 

Good morning crew.
Had a malfunction with our big lathe in the shop. Won't get to look at it until I have electric shop support on Tuesday. I checked belts they good. Oil levels are good. When I removed one of the side covers to reveal a couple of solenoid valves...something smelled a little foul in there. Connections looked a little toasty.

 

Good morning Friends. Have a great Friday!