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  • Lmfaoooo

    As fucking awful and dystopian as this shit is, I know one particular motherfucker who is about to get his shit rocked administration style.

    Welder I worked with at the coast guard was the laziest, most disgusting individual I have ever had the misfortune of meeting. He would regularly take 45+ minute “bathroom breaks” where he would sit in the stall on the phone with his wife or even straight up go to sleep sitting on the toilet. On the few occasions he actually needed to go, he would STILL TALK ON THE PHONE TO HIS WIFE.

    WHAT THE ACTUAL GROWN UP FUCK.

    I cannot fucking fathom a universe in which it is ever permissible to chitchat on the phone at work with your spouse while taking a shit. Never have I seen such little class or dignity in a professional setting. I asked my super about it and he said they’ve tried talking to him about it and he just does not see any problem with his behavior. Any other industry would get rid of him in a fucking heartbeat but government was always so scared of any kind of discrimination or cultural insensitivity complaint that they never addressed it. Now?

    Now that guy is super fucked and it couldn’t have happened to a bigger piece of shit.

    Lmaoo


  • The original intent of the stop was a headlight violation.

    The problem with that is that it wasn’t raining, invalidating the reason for the stop.

    From that point forward, the interaction should have immediately stopped. Without PC for the headlight violation, the police had no authority to demand ID. Since they couldn’t demand ID, they didn’t have a reason to arrest. That invalidates the resisting charge.

    Start to finish this was a crazy interaction and I hope every cop involved has a very happy get lynched in front of their families. :)



  • Even worse, It’s actually two parts the owner insists on doing together and parting later. Could have done two 5 inch parts but noooo, that might have been easy. Lol

    Further, the center of stock on the backside is floating in air. It’s a 9/16 hole that’s a bit off-center, but not enough to put the true center in the wall.

    I’ll try flipping around the part and see if I have a boring bar small enough to true most of the hole from that end. Im confident in my original center, it just seems to have wandered a bit through the material.

    Im not entirely sure that tailstock is aligned just right but the owner is riding me to produce since my first two weeks have been mostly restoring the equipment they have and addressing what can be fixed. The Szim lathe really only needed some minor leveling and some oil, but I put a lockout on the other lathe after I opened up the head and found a bunch of chipped gears. The szim has also definitely been crashed at least once but everything seems to be rigid and true as far as I can tell.


  • Not ultra critical at this stage. It’s basically a bushing for a bushing. It gets turned down on the OD for an interference fit on an existing bored hole and the ID just needs to be blasted out to a little over 4 and a half, then it gets welded in place and final line bored later.

    I’ve never even heard of a gun drill but hot damn if that doesn’t sound like the perfect pilot hole tool. Honestly I’m trying my best to make due with what the shop already has while recommending tools I’ve used before in machining. Last place I was at we had this wicked set of spade drills from like half inch all the way up to 3 inches and change that would tear through metal like butter.

    At this shop, their last machinist quit 7 or 8 years ago and mostly I get blank looks when I ask if they have x or y tool/insert/tool holder. The owner is willing to buy new tooling but I’ve never been in the position to even select tooling for operations before, let alone outfit a shop for every process they want to run.