FS: Wife, two cats... Erm...

Nope. I was pointing out where you were wrong in your original post.
You've wriggled like **** ever since and I think it's great fun.

I'll repeat that we've machined components that were suspended on
chainblocks. We drilled and tapped a few M16 holes in the component
and then clamped our machine to it. No sign of any concrete or secure
mountings anywhere, in fact we had to wedge bits of wood into the bore
to absorb vibration but the end result was a job bored out with a good
finish and round/parallel within 0.001"

I still maintain your knowledge of machining practices leaves a lot to
be desired. There's a lot more to machining than sitting by a machine
in a nice clean workshop with nice shiny new tools in the stores
whenever you need them.

 

But you're a **** with a fetish for wanked out East European
motorbikes so you're not going to be looked upon as a reliable judge
of character.

 

Oh, oh, I've done some work for them. Proper NDT work mind, not kiddy
machining stuff.
I recall them having a place in Bedford somewhere.

 

What a wonderful description.

 

He does this a lot, I've noticed. Like when he said that you didn't have
to report vehicle collisions if the damage was only to the vehicles and
nobody was hurt....

 

I know, that's what makes it fun. He's only really fucked up a little
bit by saying something _has_ to be done where the reality is that it
really is beneficial but not essential iyswim. That's not a good
enough reason to stop me having a dig at him though.

 

The site is now a nice new housing development. The diesel division
now has an office in what used to be a school in Bedford and the
turbine division is about 8 miles outside Bedford. I spent a day
earlier this week removing 2 rows of blades from a turbine rotor
because some smartarse with a UT set informed them that the shrouding
was cracked.

 

For the non-engineering amongst you, this is the qualification you get
that says 'thanks for taking part!' and usually has a smiley face on
the certificate.

 

I like kittens.

 

NDT men - nothing but trouble.

 

Sometime around Thu, 08 Sep 2005 20:34:22 +0100, sweller babbled on about:

So do I, and what is all this shite about them being for life? Get rid at
6 months and buy another fluffy kitten is what I say.

 

Bwahahahaha.

 

snip>

Very close.

I often walk to my toolbox at work and then stand staring at it trying
to remember what it was I needed.

 

A "Senior Moment".

I have them increasingly frequently.

Why am I in the kitchen? Because I came here to get something. OK. What?
No idea. OK, retrace steps to sitting-room and start over. Ah. Nice
sofa. Reach for bottle of claret. Damn, the cork's not been pulled.

*Light dawns*

 

For a moment there I was wondering how Unreal Tournament had a bearing
on turbines.

 

Or 'sometimers' as I call it.

I've gone out to the van looking for something and found I had whatever
it was in my hand/toolbelt all along.

 

You too, eh? Followed by a mental re-run of what I was doing on the job
just before I went to the van for the tool/bit/whatever.

It's usually some other ****'s fault, distracting bastards.

 

It's not even a qualification.
FFS, even IT bods can get it eg. "software engineers".

 

The only qualifications worth a wank in mechanical engineering are the
ones you have to keep up to date and by that I mean welding and ndt
ones.

Having said that, the only reason they constantly have to re-qualify
is to make sure they've not slipped back into the swamp they
inadvertently stumbled out of earlier.

 

LOL! he doesn't make any effort to read anything technical. he doesn't
get very far with novels either...it wakes him when they drop to the
floor.

that's likely though.
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