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Old 07-02-2009, 01:15 AM   #1
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The 9-5. The Daily Grind.

I guess to get to know everyone a little better. At this time I am serving a 3 year apprenticeship to be a Diesel Mechanic for Union Pacific RailRoad. This is the kind of stuff I get to work on.





This is what you see when you remove the turbo, cam gears (top), Idler gear (center).

This is the turbo about 4' tall, pushin 4 times atmospherical preasure at full load, 18,000 rpm at full load.

This is a GE (General Electric power assembly) about 700 cubic inch per assembly x 16 cylinders.

And this is what the brake eqiupment looks like, tons of valves.



Let see what ya'll up to on a daily basis
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Old 07-02-2009, 02:34 AM   #2
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Re: The 9-5. The Daily Grind.

the piston assembly was trippin me out... you said 700ci... but it looked small until i realized it was sitting on a pallet.. haha

as for a daily grind for me... wakin up a noon.. playin video games.. then goin back to bed... unemployment at it's finest!

I'll be going back to school for a my C ticket shortly though, amazing how much a piece of paper can mean.
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Old 07-02-2009, 03:22 AM   #3
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Re: The 9-5. The Daily Grind.

Im new but thought I would introduce myself. I am a Unix Admin at FICO the people that do your credit score. I work 6pm to 6am Monday thru Wed. Long weekends for working in the garage.
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Old 07-02-2009, 04:16 AM   #4
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Re: The 9-5. The Daily Grind.

I work for a company that makes the best burger in the world.



And before you ask, yes, I can and do flip burgers that look that good...
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Old 07-02-2009, 08:19 AM   #5
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Re: The 9-5. The Daily Grind.

raley's meat cutter here... i'll look through my pics and see if i have any good action shots!!
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Old 07-02-2009, 08:23 AM   #6
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Re: The 9-5. The Daily Grind.

I am store manager for my family's Hardware Store. So I'm the Helpful Hardware Man.
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Old 07-02-2009, 08:56 AM   #7
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Re: The 9-5. The Daily Grind.

I am a moderator here and i have to move this thread!
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Old 07-02-2009, 09:14 AM   #8
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Re: The 9-5. The Daily Grind.

thats your daily grind... keeping up w/ all the unrelated posts
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Old 07-02-2009, 09:15 AM   #9
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Re: The 9-5. The Daily Grind.

let see i get up around 9 am ,shower ,breakfest,water garden (hose is 3/4 in dia. the heavy duty one ) then i wait for the mail man around 1-2 pm ,lunch,watch judge mathis for hour 2-3 pm ,on computer or playstation 3 until 4:20
take nap ,dinner 6-watch news
then usually watch baseball game 7-10pm
then theres time i work in my doctors appointment in between time on somedays
the days i take the shuttle to the VA hospital thats a work out just to get on the van and get the good seats with cushion seats not the hard plastic seats
so that my daily grind
back to bed im tired just typing this
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Old 07-02-2009, 09:29 AM   #10
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I'm a firefighter for baltimore county.
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Old 07-02-2009, 09:42 AM   #11
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Automotive machinest, AKA engine builder. Been at the same place for almost 20 years. Started my Junior year of high school. I do everything that has to do with the short block machining wise. I assemble all the motors. This week I put together a jeep 134 flat head. I have a 400 pontiac on the stand waiting for a rear main seal before going to gether to eliminate that stupid rope seal. NO LEAKS!!!
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Old 07-02-2009, 01:06 PM   #12
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Old 07-02-2009, 02:15 PM   #13
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Re: The 9-5. The Daily Grind.

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And before you ask, yes, I can and do flip burgers that look that good...
I work for a company that makes the best burger in the world.maybe in the fast food world but no the best in the world !!!
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Old 07-02-2009, 04:36 PM   #14
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What company is that?
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Old 07-02-2009, 04:44 PM   #15
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let see i get up around 9 am ,shower ,breakfest,water garden (hose is 3/4 in dia. the heavy duty one ) then i wait for the mail man around 1-2 pm ,lunch,watch judge mathis for hour 2-3 pm ,on computer or playstation 3 until 4:20
take nap ,dinner 6-watch news
then usually watch baseball game 7-10pm
then theres time i work in my doctors appointment in between time on somedays
the days i take the shuttle to the VA hospital thats a work out just to get on the van and get the good seats with cushion seats not the hard plastic seats
so that my daily grind
back to bed im tired just typing this
That sounds alot like my daily grind except you wake up earlier and I watch Family Feud instead of Judge Mathis.
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I just finished my second week working for East Penn Maufacturing. I drive Class B hazmat materials (batteries).
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Old 07-02-2009, 08:27 PM   #18
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ok.... well i used to work on these(Autoracks), but now i have been unemployed since the end of May 2008
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the piston assembly was trippin me out... you said 700ci... but it looked small until i realized it was sitting on a pallet.. haha
The assemblies range anywhere from 567 ci to 645 ci all the way to 710 ci, and yes that is dissplacemant per cylinder. Most locomotives have 16 cylinders. HP ratings are 1500-6000, with torque measured in Mega Watts. All that power leads to 460 mpg while pulling a full freight train. I love my job.

This is what happens when a turbo that comfortably spins at 18,000 rpms looses oil pressure at full bore and goes haywire.
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Old 07-02-2009, 08:57 PM   #20
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The first 2 are where I do research and development (what a mess), and the third is what I set up so the DR's can read the digital images (X-Rays, CT's MRI's Ultrasound...etc) on computers instead of film.
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pipe supervisor these days, but every job is different. Last year I built this, just me and a welder. we did all the pipe you see, and alot you can't see. had a blast!

Now I'm supervising a crew putting in about 2500' of 14, 12, 10, 8" pipe, lots of smaller pipe, a couple hundred valves of all sizes, 16 large ash collectors, 4 large blower assemblys, 2 air compressors, etc etc. Wish I could get pics, but cameras are not allowed........

BTW, that's 14 & 12" in the pics, some 6" IIRC
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Well, I have been in property restoration for the last 2-1/2 years, but my recent thread states, that's about to change. I will not miss it, it's a lot like Dirty Jobs with Mike Rowe. We're talking fire cleanup, water damage, mold, bio hazards including crime scene cleanup etc.. I've done some of the nastiest, dirtiest, most unpleasant things you can imagine while I've been there, so when they took me aside the other day and said the Summer slow down had gotten to the point where someone had to go, I wasn't too upset about it. I'm trying to go back to something like shipping or dispatching, which I used to do. I really want to see if I can get a job helping veterans since I am one.
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hey all IM A FULLTIME DAD! after 10 years of traveling for work (army etc) it's MY time to go to school...
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here's what i used to do..
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