Random Thoughts - Part Deux [NO POLITICS]

[NoHaveMSG]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

OHHHH that could be different. I doubt I would even try that although it is probably doable.

I think he would have better luck wrapping it in tape.

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by NoHaveMSG

Ugh, furnace quit at my house. Renter called me earlier. HVAC guy said needs an exchanger at 3200 and a flame rollout switch. May have found an exchanger for $1k online but I want to inspect the unit myself since I am thinking about just replacing the unit. I owe a bunch in taxes this year so if I can write it off might as well make Uncle Sam pay for some of it. Tenant says he can weld it lol

If it's an older furnace, I'd suggest you just have the whole furnace replaced.

I was going to tell the story about the time back in CT, I decided to repair a leaking boiler (type of furnace) in my house.

Oh, it's a long story ....... but the bottom line is that certain repairs should be just left up to professionals -

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

You most certainly can weld cast iron. It is slow and won't look pretty but will be completely fine. If I still had my 58 Ford sitting here I could have shown you a very nice welded cast iron exhaust manifold. I have done it at least 4 times way back in the olden days.

Yep, that's how I made a three carb intake manifold and a dual exhaust, exhaust manifold out of the OEM cast iron manifolds on my old Chev stove bolt six. It didn't look perty .... and only leaked a little bit. -

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by humfrz

Yep, that's how I made a three carb intake manifold and a dual exhaust, exhaust manifold out of the OEM cast iron manifolds on my old Chev stove bolt six. It didn't look perty .... and only leaked a little bit. -

Yep. When they said "cast" my brain immediately went to iron not aluminum.

[soundman98]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

Yep. When they said "cast" my brain immediately went to iron not aluminum.

gotta think 'new' and 'cheap', not 'old' and 'reliable'

i just don't look at my furnace. that's how it keeps working. maybe next year.

[p1l0t]

Originally Posted by NoHaveMSG

Kinda happens when you tell a generation they HAVE to go to college to make good money. Then they step into a job at the entry level with entry level pay when they expect to get short cutted to the top.



What gets me is all the companies that say that you have to have a degree for a position like sales. It can be a degree in anything, but you have to have one.

IMHO (and I have a Master's but I'm saying this) if a job says you need a degree but it can be completely unrelated... basically they are just looking for an excuse to weed people out for no reason other than too many people want that job for whatever reason. I mean if the knowledge isn't applied..

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[soundman98]

and now the stipulation strikes back, and no one is applying for anything!

[NoHaveMSG]

Originally Posted by humfrz

If it's an older furnace, I'd suggest you just have the whole furnace replaced.

That’s my ideal option. I just want to take 30 min today to check it out and take some pictures. I have one company that needs to send someone out to quote it. I’m going to call a couple others Monday but I want to be armed with more info. Tenant won’t be happy.


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[NoHaveMSG]

Originally Posted by soundman98

and now the stipulation strikes back, and no one is applying for anything!

I know of a few companies that have dropped it as a requirement. Anheuser Busch was one of them. They had a lot of people quit because it stopped them from progressing beyond a supervisory role.


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[Capt Spaulding]

Originally Posted by NoHaveMSG

I know of a few companies that have dropped it as a requirement. Anheuser Busch was one of them. They had a lot of people quit because it stopped them from progressing beyond a supervisory role.


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I suspect many employers used it as a measure of work ethic. Can you start a project and see it through to completion? Second, there is a base level of problem solving ability required to navigate college.

If you're having trouble meeting your staffing needs, lowering standards is one way to do it. At one point, IIRC, the Army did this. My recollection is the results were suboptimal.

[soundman98]

Originally Posted by Capt Spaulding

I suspect many employers used it as a measure of work ethic. Can you start a project and see it through to completion? Second, there is a base level of problem solving ability required to navigate college.

If you're having trouble meeting your staffing needs, lowering standards is one way to do it. At one point, IIRC, the Army did this. My recollection is the results were suboptimal.

yea, i've heard that before. it's a common denominator metric.

the irony though is that it doesn't work for hands-on positions, only office jobs that continue the 'shuffling of paper', and 'follow the rules' that school work inherently encourages. school work fundamentally doesn't encourage people to think independently. i nearly failed out of high school in 2 different courses. by the grades, i barely passed, and was a sub-par student. but tech courses, i all but aced, and my attendance record was in the top 5 of my class..

it was around the 3rd-semester of junior year that i finally just gave up on school-- all the after-hours 'talks', individual time with teachers, and 'shaping things up', and 'you have to be better than this', and started turning in 0.5-1 page essay's despite the teachers requiring 4-8 pages. in that semester, just making that 1 change, my essay's went from d's and f's, to b's, despite the chastising note of not hitting the length requirements... school got easier once i gave up trying to do what they demanded. of course, that's got it's own irony.

so i still find it funny how the best possible metric for measuring employee success, after so many decades of, well, 'work', involves something paralleling a George Orwell novel...

[spike021]

Current work in progress, I have no idea what the eff I'm doing :

https://imgur.com/a/8TQ7oyH

It's a vid so apparently I can't embed it :\

[Dadhawk]

Originally Posted by NoHaveMSG

I can't figure out why our CAD guy always insists on drawing parts with speed holes in them

Maybe he's an aviation buff.

Your speed hole could be someone else's lightening hole (which is what they are called in airplanes). Without them, most small airplanes wouldn't fly.

The main spar and ribs on a two seat aircraft....

[Dadhawk]

Originally Posted by NoHaveMSG

I know of a few companies that have dropped it as a requirement. Anheuser Busch was one of them. They had a lot of people quit because it stopped them from progressing beyond a supervisory role.

I've personally have rewritten all my job descriptions (IT jobs including Help Desk, Telecom, Networking, Data Center, Security) to include the "or equivalent experience and/or certification) for my department. I've done this for 30 years when entering a new area and had the hiring authority.

Suddenly I can hire people I couldn't hire before and have a much better team for it. Someone who takes the initiative to learn a skill or trade on their own is someone who likely enjoys what they are doing and has some level of passion for it.

I'll take that over a degree any day. Don't even get me started on certifications, which are an indicator of nothing other than good memorizing skills.