On Fri, 12 Jan 2018 22:21:22 -0500, William Bagwell
wrote:

On Fri, 12 Jan 2018 11:37:05 -0800, Larry Jaques
wrote:

On Thu, 11 Jan 2018 22:54:15 -0500, William Bagwell
wrote:

Ah, 2013.

"Worked in a plastics factory for six years. Dozens and dozens of
the $10 to $15 Harbor Freight die grinders. (Owner was a bit
cheap...) While some broke while new, amazingly many of them ran for
*years* on wet nasty unfiltered air with only occasional oiling.

What they all lacked was the power to take a heavy cut. The lone
Sioux in the plant was passed around constantly for heavy cuts and
it too survived on unfiltered compressed air. Sioux makes good
stuff! Wish I could afford to buy a dozen:-("

Why couldn't you get the owner to pony up the $28 it cost for a FRL
unit after a few of the tools died? Air would then have been
filtered, dried, and oiled.

Most of the early deaths had nothing to do with the unfiltered air.

I know, but when a boss who usually cheaps out sees that a simple
investment might save him money, the suggestion that it would save
more tools in the future might work for you even though it isn't the
actual cause of today's failures. Haven't you learned to "work" your
Peter Principle bosses? g It's not lying, it's creative quality
assurance.


Brief period before I started of engraving the date on all tools
which is how I knew some of them were as old as seven years when
they finally died. (Of course they could have been 'squirreled' for
part of that time...)

Good idea. I need to tear down all my old air tools and soak them.
Many of their vanes are stuck from sitting for decades. I think only
the Rodac 1/2" drive impact from '74 is truly worn out, from 11 years
hard use.


They did buy a huge used air dryer that proved to be the wrong type.
Never ran while I was there... But yes, the owner would have been
ecstatic over a $28 solution. Still occasionally get called about
things so may get to pass this on.

Good.

-


A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion,
butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet,
balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying,
take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations,
analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a
tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is
for insects.

-Robert A. Heinlein