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I just like to bitch about my job with people who understand what I'm talking about v v
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rscott posted:I just like to bitch about my job with people who understand what I'm talking about v That's what I mean though, first hand experience with the content versus 2ND hand information and wikipedia experts. COD vs. TFR if you will.
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Feb 19, 2014 23:30
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rscott posted:Apparently 9th grade geometry is beyond the capabilities of the vendor we send our parts to get anodized and primed. Some of our stuff needs masking at various stages and apparently this is too hard to figure out:
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Feb 19, 2014 23:38
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rscott posted:I just like to bitch about my job with people who understand what I'm talking about v Oh trust me. To someone with no aviation experience its a cool world to peer into. Where else could I get exposed to poo poo like this?
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Feb 19, 2014 23:58
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triple clutcher posted:I work at a finishing shop and yes, yes, that is too hard for us to figure out. It'd take at least a week just for us to get correct templates made, and a handful of parts would still be masked backwards, plated, inspected, and shipped without anyone noticing. Good thing there's a final QA buyoff before the parts leave the shop right? RIGHT?
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Feb 20, 2014 00:13
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I'm loving frustrated with mobile browsers ATM, otherwise id have pictures up already  Although, some of the poo poo I've uncovered when doing repairs from American carriers scares me and makes me want to fly on them less and less. Buried/undocumented patches, buried doubled holes, etc. up here we have to go to college to touch em, but down there the regs are different and you can write your exam after building a kit plane with hardware from home depot. gently caress you Regan, gently caress you.
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Feb 20, 2014 00:23
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Agent RE-RE posted:Good thing there's a final QA buyoff before the parts leave the shop right? RIGHT?  Do you guys do anodizing at your shop? Is it really common for parts to fall out of the baskets because I swear we lose somewhere in the mid single digits percentage wise of the parts we send out and I'm curious if it's due to theft or just carelessness.
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Feb 20, 2014 00:25
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Imgur has a standalone app, works way better for uploading than trying to go through a mobile browser. Also I love listening to knowledgable people talk about what they do, so please continue talking about your job if you want.
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Feb 20, 2014 00:40
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Agent RE-RE posted:Good thing there's a final QA buyoff before the parts leave the shop right? RIGHT? I enjoy what I do, but between our screwups and some of the shops we do work for it's amazing that there aren't more planes and spacecraft and tanks falling out of the air. You want us to leave certain areas unplated, but won't send us the prints to show us those areas because they're classified? Sure thing, man. All our anodizing is racked, so our fallout is generally pretty low. I didn't even know bulk anodizing could be a thing?
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Feb 20, 2014 00:55
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We do a lot of small extrusions and hand formed clips and brackets that go on larger assemblies that we build in house that might have as many as 1500 pieces on one order, I don't know how that stuff gets anodized.
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Feb 20, 2014 01:03
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got home and at the computer so this will go fast and easy: this is a bracket that goes in the aft fuselage behind the pressure bulkhead but forward of the ELT, APU and FDR's:     I had to make the same one today but for the other side because it cracked in the same place. I'll take pictures tomorrow when I'm installing them so you can see the guts in the rear end end of an aircraft.  our Alodine prep room So the trim panel I made earlier last week was waiting on the edge seal from bombardier; bonded it to the panel yesterday with 3M L1300 adhesive. It's aggressive stuff and requires toluene to dissolve it:  It's a pain to work with the first time around, but the second attempt went much smoother after I figured out to bond one side of the lip before moving to the other side. this is a left hand, outboard engine bay cover which I -thankfully- received with the cherry max rivets removed and the old latch pin removed as well. I say thankfully because all the rivets near the engine are monel or stainless; aka hard.    the tool in my left hand is a nut runner, it's set to 35in/lbs. so it's good torque for bolts under .243" diameter. I had to use a magnet to get the washer and self locking nut in there.  the new pin didn't like the old hole...  pencil grinder's/ dremels are a godsend, one of my favorite tools and as an invaluable as taps + dies, reamers, helicoils, etc. I fixed the interference easily because they can go where files and deburring tools can't.  alodine and primer, of course.  lots of cherry max in this one to seal it up after putting the new patch pin in. Oblong holes were reamed to CR3553-4(oversize) or CR3523-5(nominal). FullMetalJacket fucked around with this message at 01:44 on Feb 20, 2014 |
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Feb 20, 2014 01:12
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When you upsize holes like that do you make of note of it in the maintenance records or is it just kind of a surprise to the next guy who digs in there to replace poo poo. We occasionally get orders for bushings with OD/ID specs that are different because someone hosed up somewhere putting it on the airplane and they get their own part numbers and everything so it's all documented. Those brackets look like a ton of stuff we make (I'm sure they all look pretty similar in the end since they're doing the same thing) but we don't make anything out of stuff that thin, we really start at .050 and most commonly use .063 or .080 in 2024-T3. It's good that we don't, stuff under .040 uses a different scale (15T vs HRB) for rockwell hardness and it's kind of a pain in the rear end with our old rear end tester.
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Feb 20, 2014 01:35
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Everything is documented. I feel more like an archeologist then tech because the paper work is so intensive & specific in wording, reference to manufacturer's manuals and drawings. I take lots of pictures just to cover my own rear end.
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Feb 20, 2014 01:42
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rscott posted:
We do anodize, chem films, passivation, media blasting, shot peening, titanium etch, aluminum etch, penetrant inspection, magnetic penetrant inspection, and paint. Since anodize requires electric current to be applied to the part we rack each individual part by hand. Jobs under 500 units are hand counted upon receipt into each work area and prior to transport to another area of the shop. Counting parts is our most effective tool against loss. It's very common for parts to fall off the racks while moving around on the anodize line. But if the job was counted before it was racked, and the job is counted as it's unracked, we are able to narrow the area we need to search for the lost part. The most common technique for lost part recovery involves a steel garden rake, and an 8 foot long 4 inch diameter plexiglass rod. The rake is used to drag the bottom of the tank, pulling any errant widgets to the end of the tank. Then the plexi rod is used to peek into the bottom of the tank, like the biggest drat borescope you've ever seen. I've never known parts to fall out of baskets, but they often get overlooked in the bottom of a cardboard box, only to be found months after the job shipped to the customer. At that point, the customer has already been compensated for the lost part, so it goes into our 'Box-O-Widgets' I will occasionally scavenge the nifty looking ones to make key-chain fobs.
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Feb 20, 2014 03:32
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FullMetalJacket posted:Everything is documented. I feel more like an archeologist then tech because the paper work is so intensive & specific in wording, reference to manufacturer's manuals and drawings. I take lots of pictures just to cover my own rear end.
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Feb 20, 2014 08:50
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yeeuuup. It's the reason I have a stockpile of highlites but can't use them at work. anyways, today's entry:  this is where the brackets i made attach to. It's the recirculating fan and the brackets hold a fiberglass shroud that protects it from the APU's heat. same reason for all the orange insulation on the ducting.  Flight Data Recorders 180 degrees from the last photo  I was using alligator squeezers to get the rivets installed. The left side was fine, but the right side decided it wanted me to feel like poo poo today:   then the 90 degree drill decided it wanted a piece of the action, too  NO MOM, gently caress YOU. YOU'RE GOING IN THERE.  reamed the hole and put in a hilok.  that took way longer then it should have. next project was disassembling this bypass door  Becasue of this buried fuckup of someone else's doing that was under one of the round plates in the parts bag of the first picture  used chemical paint stripper and an orbital sander to find the rivet heads   this piece is the only one that has to be replaced, but we'll see what the bossman says.  If there's anything I've learned from building and working on airplanes, it's that there's always a better way to do things.
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Feb 20, 2014 23:12
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FullMetalJacket posted:after 4 years of being in and out of school, I landed a temp job doing industrial cleaning that earned me enough money to finish the job, but not as well as i wanted it to be. I was still a proud pappy to be finally driving it, that's for sure!
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Feb 24, 2014 12:40
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it was! it will fade, eventually. the paint is farm implement paint. super cheap and easy to work with. I got it from TSC up here in kanukistan: http://www.tractorsupply.com/en/store/search/tractor-paint
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Feb 25, 2014 18:27
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My buddy has a van that was done with Endura (dumptruck paint) but it was applied too thin and the prep work was tragic. The actual paint is holding up pretty well where rust isn't bleeding through though. I was tempted to do a similar thing with the POR "hardnose" industrial paint but I don't yet have a vehicle lovely enough to justify it. I'll see if I can fix that.
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Feb 25, 2014 18:38
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FullMetalJacket posted:it will fade, eventually.
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Feb 25, 2014 23:49
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lol safety switch parts, if you do the prep work well^(and you must because it`s satin black) it`ll fade after a year of sun and salt exposure. It still has some lustre, but it`s not top quality paint. seriously, I bought a half gallon for $40 CDN. You really can`t go wrong with it. Then when it does fade, just prep the area, spray again, buff and wax after. it`ll come right back.
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Feb 26, 2014 15:14
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 Q400 came in this past week. They're nice. Sometimes I draw airplanes too: 
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Mar 1, 2014 22:18
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FullMetalJacket posted:lol safety switch I took a pic today of my 87 B2000 for a curious relative so what the hell might as well show it off here too:  Interior is pretty terrible, needs a really thorough scrubbing and vacuuming then I can start worrying about replacing seat foam and covers. Exterior is ok aside from the top of the cab being really faded and some good sized dents in the bed/tailgate area. Rear step bumper is crooked, maybe a previous owner was really really fat. I'm still debating what to paint it with, black might be the lazy solution since that's what this dark blue truck is registered as  but I'd really like coyote tan or a dark khaki.Bought it for $1100 back on thanksgiving day last year and I think with the misc stuff I'm probably around $2k in it. Though a good chunk of that is getting proper tools and such; what was really necessary parts-wise was the clutch hydraulics, brake master cylinder, and thermostat. Ball joints are next on the major stuff list, though before that I need to drain/fill the differential and transmission. It's fun as poo poo to drive around in.
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they really are fun to drive! a 4 link, air springs and an lsd as I`ve planned in my head will really sharpen it up more so. I`ve seen them in worse shape then yours! good pick. 
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Thanks! The air springs are a neat idea, but how much weight are you putting on it to need them? A guy in the area's tan B2200 was spotted on the side of the road tonight coming home from work.
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Mar 4, 2014 04:01
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air sprung for ride height adjustment and stiffness. Bitch gonna be looooow. work stuff:  q400 cockpit  A CHALLENGER APPEARS   guess where i am! 
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Mar 13, 2014 01:52
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Why does it say handle like eggs?
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Mar 13, 2014 03:43
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inertia sensor/ gyro
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Mar 13, 2014 14:15
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Sacrifices are required to satisfy the sheet metal gods. Praise be to Monel and cherrymax you are too hard to deal with just one drill bit. hey look it's a crack!  and another!  We call them fingernails and they're loving shite piecs of monel, titanium and stainless steel. I started off replacing the seal (white ring) and now because of the cracks it's 20+ hrs of work on top just to put it back. FullMetalJacket fucked around with this message at 00:26 on Mar 18, 2014 |
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Mar 15, 2014 01:12
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more work on the fingernail: i went through 7 drill bits just to get to here.  splice dat poo poo. and after the rough cut 
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Mar 18, 2014 00:29
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well, finally have the means to fix the front end of the truck. gently caress if it doesn't hurt though, replacing the front end for the 3rd time and all. Sigh...
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Apr 16, 2014 03:27
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She finally ate it. On the way back to Ontario, two hours into the journey my recent maintenance was for nought. Engine temp was not staying constant, harsh vibrations coming through the stick,lack of throttle response,and failure of the ignition/charging system spelled the end of the beater2200.onto aflatbed it went and off to the scrapper. Fare well friend, thank you for the adventures.
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Apr 25, 2014 04:26
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RIP little Mazda. You were too beautiful for this world.
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Apr 25, 2014 04:56
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Aw man.  I am tractor painting mine. Slowly, but it is getting done.
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Apr 25, 2014 10:09
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A sad day for a mighty little Mazda 
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Aww, poor little guy. I am still sad from selling mine. Time for you to buy another one.
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the kick in the nuts is that when I arrived in London, all the parts I ordered were here waiting for me my sister, whom was in the X3 chase vehicle took a video of it's last moments. I'll post it when I get it off her. Also, look what I found! http://www.kijiji.ca/v-cars-trucks/london/1993-bmw-5-series-wagon/575814228?enableSearchNavigationFlag=true
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Apr 27, 2014 05:51
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FullMetalJacket posted:She finally ate it. ENGINE.SWAP.
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Rhyno posted:ENGINE.SWAP. if only my dad was into this idea, that or the E38 out of my mom's 740IL. They just bought that x3 and it was a lifesaver for the trip, we were able to stuff all of the trucks contents in it and in the trailer. 1000km from London, The Mazda had to stay in Quebec
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FullMetalJacket posted:if only my dad was into this idea, that or the E38 out of my mom's 740IL. They just bought that x3 and it was a lifesaver for the trip, we were able to stuff all of the trucks contents in it and in the trailer. 1000km from London, The Mazda had to stay in Quebec God drat it, don't let this end here!
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