Quote:
Originally Posted by Low Elco
Cool! I used to do R&D work for 2 alum concrete form companies, where everything was custom to our application. So, if I Made a new product, I had to figure out how to make 50k of them, and then design and build the tooling/fixtures/machinery to do it. Electric/pneumatic stuff was always fun, especially updating older stuff, kinda like building a hot rod! Really miss doing that kinda work. Now I rebuild/calibrate/certify precision gauges for the production line in an ammo plant. Easy work, but I miss being stuffed indeed a 120 ton press upside down building discharge chutes. Weird, huh?
Glad the Boy's ok, hope the doc says its just skin on Mon. Good luck to him!
Posted via Mobile Device
|
Know what you're sayin. Building equipemnt was the most satisfying job for me. I got to do a little of everything and it was real creative. We'd build some crazy machine, go start it up some damn place and come home with ideas to make the next one better. There were applications for machines that didn't exist so we got to invent stuff too. Problem was that these mills were never here in town! I was constantly on the road and a lot of the time overseas. Where I work now is pure electrical. We build panels but that's it as far as shop goes. I do get my mitts into machines tho and have done some hydraulic design, just nothing as cool as it used to be. Love being home tho!
Here's a hydrualic power unit I built back in about '98. I bet I built 50 similar to this.