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Metalworking (rec.crafts.metalworking) Discuss various aspects of working with metal, such as machining, welding, metal joining, screwing, casting, hardening/tempering, blacksmithing/forging, spinning and hammer work, sheet metal work. |
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HaroldA102 scribed in
: I WORK IN A SHOP YOU WOULD THINK THAY WANT MORE CLEANING THAN PARTS MADE!!!!! THE BOSS ASK ME TO ORGANIZE THE VIDMAR I TOLD HIM I DO NOT KNOW WHAT ORGANIZATION IS ...HE SAID DOES THIS LOOK LIKE IT BELONGS HERE . SO I LABELED IT AND PUT IT BACK Harold, please stop SHOUTING swarf, steam and wind -- David Forsyth -:- the email address is real /"\ http://terrapin.ru.ac.za/~iwdf/welcome.html \ / ASCII Ribbon campaign against HTML E-Mail - - - - - - - X If you receive email saying "Send this to everyone you know," / \ PLEASE pretend you don't know me. |
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what should go to the dumpster. I would be in the dumpster after work
looking to see if they had thrown away anything interesting. Dumpster-stuff is fair game for the garage at home. I would also check the machine shop scrap bins whenever I walked by. Many times I would find a cache of drill bits, mill cutters and a file or two. I can just imagine... the guy's boss walks by saying "This area is a pigsty! Clean it up!". (snip) -I'm probably stating the obvious, but sell it on eBay!-Jitney |
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Thats what they used to do where I worked. The section chief would
walk through and say clean this place up NOW.......every drill bit cutter or whatever always was promptly thrown n the trash......I even remember when folks would regularly throw away brand new packs of drill bits and such just so the supply system kept a full supply on hand for when they needed them. If a demand was not shown the items got dropped, so to keep the demand up, and not have to fill out paperwork for a reissue or initial issue, it was easier to trash everything in the supply point one or two times a month. Still goes on today, but I think a good percentage winds up oin Ebay from someone dragging it home and capitolizing on the fraud / waste. On 12 Jul 2003 11:41:04 -0700, (jitney) wrote: x-what should go to the dumpster. I would be in the dumpster after work x-looking to see if they had thrown away anything interesting. x-Dumpster-stuff is fair game for the garage at home. x- x-I would also check the machine shop scrap bins whenever I walked by. x-Many times I would find a cache of drill bits, mill cutters and a file x-or two. I can just imagine... the guy's boss walks by saying "This x-area is a pigsty! Clean it up!". x-(snip) x--I'm probably stating the obvious, but sell it on eBay!-Jitney -- Visit my website: http://www.frugalmachinist.com Contents: foundry and general metal working and lots of related projects. Regards Roy aka Chipmaker // Foxeye Opinions are strictly those of my wife....I have had no input whatsoever. Remove capital A from chipmAkr for correct email address |
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On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 19:06:51 GMT, Roy Hauer
wrote: Thats what they used to do where I worked. The section chief would walk through and say clean this place up NOW.......every drill bit cutter or whatever always was promptly thrown n the trash......I even remember when folks would regularly throw away brand new packs of drill bits and such just so the supply system kept a full supply on hand for when they needed them. If a demand was not shown the items got dropped, so to keep the demand up, and not have to fill out paperwork for a reissue or initial issue, it was easier to trash everything in the supply point one or two times a month. Still goes on today, but I think a good percentage winds up oin Ebay from someone dragging it home and capitolizing on the fraud / waste. Many years ago, I worked in quarters adjacent to a gov't maintenance facility. The facility manager, over the years, had developed a good concept of his requirements in disposable stores to enable his four man staff to work efficiently, and had built stock accordingly. One weekend, the manager was an accident victim and monday afternoon, a bean counter arrived from headquarters to review the facility and appoint the shop foreman as manager. Late that evening, I got a frantic call from the foreman asking my assistance in moving stores into hiding in my area to preserve them from destruction by the bean counter as "inventory over and above authorized levels" One example was that only two spare outer lenses were authorized for the hood worn by the chap doing heavy duty sand blasting (he used a new one every morning and again after lunch, plus an occasional replacement for accidental breakage) Gerry :-)} London, Canada |
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On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 20:41:30 GMT, Gerald Miller
wrote: Many years ago, I worked in quarters adjacent to a gov't maintenance facility. The facility manager, over the years, had developed a good concept of his requirements in disposable stores to enable his four man staff to work efficiently, and had built stock accordingly. One weekend, the manager was an accident victim and monday afternoon, a bean counter arrived from headquarters to review the facility and appoint the shop foreman as manager. Late that evening, I got a frantic call from the foreman asking my assistance in moving stores into hiding in my area to preserve them from destruction by the bean counter as "inventory over and above authorized levels" One example was that only two spare outer lenses were authorized for the hood worn by the chap doing heavy duty sand blasting (he used a new one every morning and again after lunch, plus an occasional replacement for accidental breakage) Gerry :-)} London, Canada The average bean counter can put an efficient business out of business in about 18 months if given free reign. No concept of reality, and a slave to "process". |
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I'm not a filthy slob, but I do admit my workshop in the basement is
better organized than the rest of my house. Of course that will change once the wife finally moves in (long story). |
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Just think, you may be holding one of those boxes that contained the
ballots from the Bush/Gore campaign. I just know some fool on ebay would buy em at a good price if they knew that. May even get some buying them just to make sure there was not any ballots left in them that should have been counted, and just to be fair some that would buy them just to make sure a ballot did not get counted ;-) On 16 Jul 2003 05:11:59 -0700, Ed Sievers wrote: x-I am a self admitted slob in my shop, but recently found some great metal x-box's scrapped from the Florida vote system. They held punched cards, x-and was lucky enough to find an aluminum baking rack on wheels they just x-nested in. Now I have a rack of 20 filled with small odds & ends that I x-can move freely around the shop. x-The local scrap dealer in Ft.Myers is kind enough to let people wander at x-will in his yard to pick, and choose. Hope nothing happens to end it all as it x-is a real candy store for me. x-Things are a lot neater now.....well at least until all the box's get full. x-Ed Sievers x- x- x-In article , x-says... x- x-I am a died-in-the-wool junkie. That is, EVERYTHING looks like raw x-material to me. It is a character fault, but one which my boss x-recognized and in this recognization, kept me out of the cleanup x-details. He knew I would just put everything in boxes and find a x-place to store the boxes. Whenever the lab needed a cleaning, he x-would assign people to it that could make reasonable decisions about x-what should go to the dumpster. I would be in the dumpster after work x-looking to see if they had thrown away anything interesting. x-Dumpster-stuff is fair game for the garage at home. x- x-I would also check the machine shop scrap bins whenever I walked by. x-Many times I would find a cache of drill bits, mill cutters and a file x-or two. I can just imagine... the guy's boss walks by saying "This x-area is a pigsty! Clean it up!". x-The machinist is busy, working on something he knows is hot. So he x-gets a box, sweeps everything from his bench into the box and throws x-it into the dumpster. He can get new drills, files, etc. from the x-tool crib for asking anyway. x- x-Brownnsharp -- Visit my website: http://www.frugalmachinist.com Contents: foundry and general metal working and lots of related projects. Regards Roy aka Chipmaker // Foxeye Opinions are strictly those of my wife....I have had no input whatsoever. Remove capital A from chipmAkr for correct email address |
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The local scrap dealer in Ft.Myers is kind enough to let people wander at
will in his yard to pick, and choose. Hope nothing happens to end it all as it is a real candy store for me. Where in Fort Myers? I spend three+ months in Alva volunteering with the US Army Corps of Engineers. We go back to the same position teaching water safety in the local elementary schools this December. Earle Rich Mont Vernon, NH |
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