Nonsense Thread

[roguetoaster]

Going on 14 years of turning wrenches

Time flies... I love it more than I did when I started..

If you're patient and stick with it you might one day be able to turn screwdrivers.

[MrBurgundy]

Going on 14 years of turning wrenches

Time flies... I love it more than I did when I started..

[Northern]

I discover a problem like this about every month both before and after his termination earlier this year. Coining the phrase, "Dakotah strikes again!"

My last job was terrible at hiring. They needed bodies so badly that they would hire basically anyone with qualifications directly out of school, and the pay was so shit that nobody else wanted the job. Probably 25% of guys coming in were near useless, and another 25% had their moments. Between the desperation and Union, I know of only one guy who was ever fired.

The last year I worked there, my job basically became "fix the fuckups" although to be fair, that was some of the best work I did there.
As backwards as this sounds, it was more chill after the customer had paid for the work once already.

[MrBurgundy]

I still know some good machine shops.

Don't worry boys

[2mAn]

I discover a problem like this about every month both before and after his termination earlier this year. Coining the phrase, "Dakotah strikes again!"

We had a group chat at work called "Dammit Randy" for this very same reason... LOL

The machine shop thing is something that really scares me too. I had a few trusted ones and now there are even less. The most recent one, Engine Machine Services, in Inglewood just closed up shop. I'm so glad this happened on the tail end of the Twin Spark engine build. I'm going to make sure that engine is bulletproof, because it might be the last engine I get to build...

[E30 Wagen]

Anybody else see this shit? Bunch of morons posting themselves in mostly newer M4s "swimming" through New York traffic and running from cops.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOxm8tBdNTA

https://youtu.be/rut_9WHvrTk?si=G_kk73Eudqyisofy

[Chilezen]

The guy we fired back in April is still causing problems... about once a month... I just find things that something isn't right, on something that I know he worked on. For example,
One of our products is a bolt-in roll bar for a C5 Corvette. The very first bar I built was built within my boss's personal car. I designed the roll bar using his car, built it, then took it out, so the bar could be "jigged". Meaning, I would build the fixture/ the model/ the negative of the roll bar, so that we could make copies of the design to sell.

Except this was around the time the new guy was hired. So he was tasked with building the jig for the roll bar. He did, then we sent that first bar out to be powder coated. Got it back, then reinstalled it in my boss's car. Now we can started building duplicates.
Fast forward, the kid goofs up here and there, and eventually gets canned.

Yesterday, I was installing an updated roll bar design in my boss's car. We changed the design slightly, I built it on the jig using the existing mounting points, had it powder coated, and then traded the old bar out for the new one.
Except the new one didn't fit. Turns out, at some point, the guy had "reinforced" the jig, using a cross beam between two mounting points, to ensure those points were rigid.. because they weren't rigid to begin with. Even though the whole point of a jig is to be a rigid foundation for all subsequent bars. But he addressed that later down the line.
However, his botched reinforcement actually pushed/pulled the two mounting points away from each other. So now the reference points were an 1/8" off. Pretty important when things need to line up in the car, every time, for every customer.

Good thing my boss had me build an updated design and install it in his car, otherwise I would have never known about this misalignment for every bar we would send out.

I discover a problem like this about every month both before and after his termination earlier this year. Coining the phrase, "Dakotah strikes again!"

[McGyver]

My local machine shop, which had specialty crank grinding and welding services, has closed. The owner retired, 51 years as a machinist then owner. Sad day, the shop equipment is sold off. One less machine shop in my county, and the only one nearby I had good experiences with.

That really sucks.

I've been trying to get VAC to give me a quote for the machine work on my engine, but I'm just not hearing back from them. Several emails and I even talked to the guy while I was at VAC getting the f30 inspected. I honestly thought it would be easier to get someone to start working on this block.

[mrsleeve]

That kind of fuckery sounds like something that would happen at my workplace.

Seconded MINE TOO!!!!! spent most of the last 4 months cleaning up other peoples messes

[Northern]

That kind of fuckery sounds like something that would happen at my workplace.

[Exodus_2pt0]

We had a catastrophic failure about a year ago with a locomotive. During a failed unit replacement, Dipshit told an employee to remove a hose from an air compressor (that's driven by a driveshaft off the 3600hp, 20,000ft lb. Main engine.) Well, said hose was the oil feed to bearings and crank on the air compressor. It seized in glorious fashion, and spun the drive hub off the main engine crank stub. The stub was replaceable, that's where I come in.

So me and another trusted guy rebuilt the entire gear train of this monster, then installed a new air compressor. Now, it is a 3300hp engine, vs a 3600hp engine. I was trying to narrow down a bad injector today when I got a water pump failure alarm. Checked rhe waterpump, and the impeller is intact and not freewheeling. Odd, so I replaced the pressure sensor.

Started it back up, and I'm still getting the water pump alarm, then the thing bogs down on me at just above idle. I shut it down, and now it won't start again. Cranks, but no fuel.

I really dislike the guy who has a LOT of experience, yet few fucks to give, and the kind of guy who wont educate himself... he'd rather take a guess, who then told someone else to remove that oil line right now, because gremlins are running wild and I'm the one holding the mop.

Anywho, welcome to my absolutely random nonsense Ted talk! Had to vent to someone!

[varg]

My local machine shop, which had specialty crank grinding and welding services, has closed. The owner retired, 51 years as a machinist then owner. Sad day, the shop equipment is sold off. One less machine shop in my county, and the only one nearby I had good experiences with.

[DEV0 E30]

We went a few weeks back to see what was up, since there was no response from the Sheriffs department since March I believe..

It's MASSIVE now... I'm guessing its around a 5-7 acre grow at this point.... Law enforcement seems to not give a fuck, obviously.. Shame our land has been taken from us and we can't do shit for a number of reasons..

It's frustrating to say the least.

wtf. 5-7 acres? Again, for our amusement, I'd contact some other agencies and give each one some dates and details. Start keeping track of a timeline.

Tell them each that you've contacted others, and if you don't see something done, you're going to the press, THE PRESS *and slam your fist down on a mahogany desk, don't have one? Get one.

But seriously, that is absolutely nuts.

[2mAn]

Any of you stuck at Burning Man? MrBurgundy that seems like your vibe

[MrBurgundy]

Two words, drone strike.

Sounding like me after a couple beers