The Batlord

The best thread on MB would be "The Worst Trollheart Threads".

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Chula Vista

Great trade but NEVER get lazy about safety. Machine operator + lax on safety = emergency room visit with a bag of ice keeping part of an appendage cold.

It's really ****ing cool watching some of those machines at work.

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

Chula Vista

And I spent 30 years creating the blueprints! First on vellum and then via 3D files.

Bet you and I might be the only two people on this forum that know what IGS means.

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

The Batlord

I Gotta ****

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Chula Vista

Must be a highlight of your day if you capitalize it.

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

The Batlord

Kicking back, churning the water beneath me, reading a comic. Basically nothing better.

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Chula Vista

Putting aside the comic, I gotta say the rest of the sentence immediately brought this to mind.

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

Plankton

I ran a turret lathe for a while at Chicago Roll quite a few years ago. It gets a bit mind numbing after a few months, but it's good work. I was in between jobs as a CAD guy and I'd take any job really (mechanic, welding, shop clean-up, gas station attendant, etc.) when ever I found myself in that situation, and this place happened to be right next door to where I was staying at the time, so it was really convenient. I learned fast and was cranking out pipe form rolls with the best of them. Pretty soon the owners found out about my CAD abilities and started fighting over where I should be placed, either in the drafting dept. or keep me where I was. That's when I decided to tell them I was just their until I found a job in my chosen field, which was drafting, and they weren't too happy about that so they fired me right there on the spot. About an hour after they fired me I got a job working at GMEMD designing the SD90MAC locomotive working with Unigraphics, which is a Unix based CAD system, now called Siemens NX.

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Chula Vista

Blew my mind once I saw these things in action how much cooling and lubricant fluid is used during the cutting.

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

Plankton

Sometimes you have to make your own opportunities and 'get your foot in the door', as they say. Mostly, employers are looking for positive, forward thinking self-starters. What you know from school is secondary. You just have to be teachable and willing to learn.

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