Random thoughts thread

[ichitaka05]

F'! Editing the vid whole day... and suddenly power went out on me. Good news is, I didn't loose ALL the work, I've been doing. Shitty news is, I didn't save often so pass 5hrs I've done is gone (which is 3/4 of work)... FML

I'm taking a break before I through something at my monitor lol

[shadoquad]

Originally Posted by ichitaka05

F'! Editing the vid whole day... and suddenly power went out on me. Good news is, I didn't loose ALL the work, I've been doing. Shitty news is, I didn't save often so pass 5hrs I've done is gone (which is 3/4 of work)... FML

I'm taking a break before I through something at my monitor lol

omg I'd be pissed

[bestwheelbase]

Originally Posted by Dadhawk

Personally I'm a bigger fan of Linner. If you're gonna sleep in, sleep in!

Alright Mr. One-Upper.

[ichitaka05]

Originally Posted by shadoquad

omg I'd be pissed

Yeah, I was... actually I'm still upset, so I done working on the vid for today. working pissy won't help, so I'll work on it again tomorrow...

[S2kphile]

Wednesday *sighs* 2 more days til the weekend...

[Dimman]

Start a 4 week evaluation for new position on Monday. Success will lead to further training and a 25% pay increase next year with an eventual ceiling of just under 40%. Failure means skulking back to the machine shop and token 2-3% annual raises as I'm maxed out here...

Have 2 fat binders to go through this weekend. Generic setup, testing and service manual and the machine's BOM.

[OrbitalEllipses]

They changed my ETA from a solid date (was supposed to be tomorrow) to a nebulous "month of August." Sigh. Getting super duper fucking tired of this shit. I have to cancel window tinting and opti-coat + detail appointments I made. Grrr.

Originally Posted by Dimman

Start a 4 week evaluation for new position on Monday. Success will lead to further training and a 25% pay increase next year with an eventual ceiling of just under 40%. Failure means skulking back to the machine shop and token 2-3% annual raises as I'm maxed out here...

Have 2 fat binders to go through this weekend. Generic setup, testing and service manual and the machine's BOM.

Good luck. Though I hope you don't need luck as you seem rather competent and driven.

[Dimman]

Originally Posted by OrbitalEllipses

They changed my ETA from a solid date (was supposed to be tomorrow) to a nebulous "month of August." Sigh. Getting super duper fucking tired of this shit. I have to cancel window tinting and opti-coat + detail appointments I made. Grrr.



Good luck. Though I hope you don't need luck as you seem rather competent and driven.

Thanks. It's a shit-ton of stuff that I haven't studied in 8 years, or at all even (electrical and pneumatics). But I've made every in house part we use on the machines (minus the finished welding) and get along with all the guys, so they're giving me a shot over an outside experienced guy. Machines are also specialized enough so anyone they hire will need training anyways.

These are ~$100k automated packaging machines that pump out and stack the display boxes like you see at Cosco (Gilette Venus box we did) and trays for fruits like Sun Pacific's Cuties clementine oranges.

[serialk11r]

Yo @Dimman you know what's funny? The other day on Youtube one of the ads they forced me to watch was from some "affordable titanium" society thing. I was like, that is a hell of an oxymoron. But they were right about steel < Ti.

[Dimman]

Originally Posted by serialk11r

Yo @Dimman you know what's funny? The other day on Youtube one of the ads they forced me to watch was from some "affordable titanium" society thing. I was like, that is a hell of an oxymoron. But they were right about steel < Ti.

Affordable titanium seems complicated because you need a vacuum or inert environment to refine it. Stupid metal likes to react with nitrogen when it gets hot enough.

Oh and Old Greg educated me a while back on where steel > titanium. Stiffness (even stiffness to weight) is titanium's weak point.

Which kinda sucks since the idea of titanium suspension links gives me a metallurgy boner...

[serialk11r]

Originally Posted by Dimman

Affordable titanium seems complicated because you need a vacuum or inert environment to refine it. Stupid metal likes to react with nitrogen when it gets hot enough.

Oh and Old Greg educated me a while back on where steel > titanium. Stiffness (even stiffness to weight) is titanium's weak point.

Which kinda sucks since the idea of titanium suspension links gives me a metallurgy boner...

Yea, but titanium engine components...

[Dimman]

Originally Posted by serialk11r

Yea, but titanium engine components...

As long as they're coated with something since it 'smears' (fretting wear is the official term maybe?) against other metals easily. Have to be a bit careful of that when machining it because of that. Other wise it machines similar to 304 stainless. At least the mystery alloy I've played with (6Al/4V I think).

[serialk11r]

Originally Posted by Dimman

As long as they're coated with something since it 'smears' (fretting wear is the official term maybe?) against other metals easily. Have to be a bit careful of that when machining it because of that. Other wise it machines similar to 304 stainless. At least the mystery alloy I've played with (6Al/4V I think).

Didn't know that, thanks.

I wonder what MMC does to the fatigue characteristics of aluminum, since aluminum MMC rods are sometimes used. Price would likely be much more reasonable than titanium still.

[Dimman]

Originally Posted by serialk11r

Didn't know that, thanks.

I wonder what MMC does to the fatigue characteristics of aluminum, since aluminum MMC rods are sometimes used. Price would likely be much more reasonable than titanium still.

Super PITA to machine, I've read. They make one piece conrods on single cylinder dirtbikes with take apart cranks. Need fancy grinders for the holes.