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I write music and screenplay for the adult film industry.

I'm a big fan. That one about stepmom getting stuck under the bed was epic.

Orville & Wilbur were crewchiefs on that thing... 😁

LMFAO

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Beauty.

Have spent much of my life hunched over those pink Starrett surface plates and those grey Hardinge tool room lathes…nothing better.

It's not mine. The last place I worked had Hardinge lathes stuck everywhere.

Best yet!!!

There was an Electrical Engineer at the last place I worked. He had a pretty big office.

He came into the machine shop one day throwing a big fit at the Foreman about how something had been done,....was telling the Foreman how it *should* have been done. The big machine shop manager was good friends with the Foreman.

A couple of days later the big machine shop manager had a Hardinge lathe and a Bridgeport milling machine transported to the Electrical Engineer's office and had them all leveled up and run power to them,.....told the EE he could do his own machine work from now on.

Cleaning guns that have been submersed in salt water sucks.

The dishwasher version wasn't bad either.

Been a helicopter guy for the last 20 years…

I appreciate all you do to keep me busy acting.

TTSX. They over penetrate and besides, Noslers are too inaccurate...

Heck with the rods and reels what kind of boat is that? She is very NICE?

rainshot
Yes. Tool and die maker.
Actually alittle more specialized then that. Plastic injection mold maker. Over the last 45 years or so.
I've built or made parts and tooling for just about every kind of plastic part you can imagine and a few probably nobody can imagine...
The gauges on the surface plate with the yellow on them are called surface gauges.
http://murkensprecisiontool.com/
They typically don't come with yellow painted parts on them.. ..
I walked away from the trade in 2007 and went to work at a GE locomotive plant. Pretty much a huge culture shock.
Started out throwing steel around, sheet metal shop. Ended up as an inspector in probably one of the largest machine shops in the country.
Got laid off with 8 years service. The general electric laid off half the workforce, about 1500 people and you needed 10 years to stay in plant.
I went back to work in tool and die. And didn't go back when the GE called.
My surface gauges got some rust on them sitting around and I took them out to the gunsmith to get blasted and painted.. black and John Deere yellow... Duracoat...Ha.
The indicators on the surface gauges are Interrapid .0001.
On the left side is a Mitutoyo drop indicator and stand.
And the white blocks are Mitutoyo ceramic gauge blocks.
Not to far down the road from now .
This stuff will all be for sale.


Dave

Sometimes you have some small holes....
dave