Fun at work, this is my world

[Precise1]

Well, we spend enough time at work (some of it whoring here) that there's bound to be something interesting. Equipment, peers, projects, secretaries... Share your work place with us.

 

This is my diamond turning lab. I machine optic inserts for injection molds. Yes, I cut an optical surface, usually in pure nickel, using diamonds as cutting tools. Here is the machine I use. It has a positional resolution of 10 nanometers with an air bearing spindle, meaning the spindle floats on pressurised air (internal) so there is no friction or vibration. If I turn off the air, the spindle can't turn... I can machine things down to a few millionths of an inch.

 

 

This particular job is called flycutting where the tool is attached to the end of the 'bar' across the spindle with the part clamped on the table and traversed across the tip of the rotating tool.

 

This is just a side view of the same thing. You can barely see the diamond tool at the far end of the bar.

 

This is looking in from the back on the other side of the spindle. I circled the end of the part I'm cutting in red, the flat I'm cutting is 1.5x2.5mm. Yes, all that stuff for a tiny little area of shiney nickel!! The stud circled in blue is 1/2"x13TPI just for size reference.

 

This is the monitor set up for my digital microscope. The screen shows the part I'm about to cut and the tip of the diamond tool being set at 92x.

 

 

The fun part of the work is the ultra-precision and that I design and make all of my tooling and fixturing.

The frustrating part is that I am a 1 man department in a company that is poorly scheduled. I am always behind and given impossible deadlines, the answer to which (for them at least) is overtime. I haven't had a real vacation for 2.5 years because of this.

 

B

[daftpup]

Sheesh, talk about jargon. Seriously tho pretty impressive setup B...I'm just a corporate whore.

 

If I took a camera to work, everyone would be riddled with paranoia. Too bad about vacation tho...I wouldn't let that go on too much longer IIWY.

Edited July 11, 2008 by daftpup

[FUELER]

nice pics!

 

 

| Heres a day in my world of makin money

 

 

[Precise1]

LMAO FUELER, didn't suprise me one bit though...

 

Sheesh, talk about jargon.

 

Jargon?? Hell, I said that in english!!

 

B

[Slick]

this is my domain........... i am the boss of it. 18 rotation trucks (belong to my center) 6 rotation trailers, (at any give time we can have up to 20 other pieces of equipment called "one way's which means they can go ANYWHERE, rotation means it has to come back to MY place) 6 employees and lots of headaches, but also good times.

we are a mag class 8, (it was 7 when i became mgr)..... which means our little center makes over 800K a year... not bad for the 2nd smallest center out of 13 in our MCO.

 

 

[Kittamaru]

I currently work in a butchers shop... heh...

[RedPath88]

Below is a picture of my world \/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Well, that was fun!! Actually I cannot share a pic of mine, because the act of using a camera where I work would result in my access badge being revoked by our customer and "could", depending on what I took a pic of, cause my termination of employment with my company as well. If it is truly serious, I could also have federal charges files against me

 

I believe that k9 can likely relate to this or at least understand why all this could happen.

[Precise1]

Actually I cannot share a pic of mine, because the act of using a camera where I work would result in my access badge being revoked by our customer and "could", depending on what I took a pic of, cause my termination of employment with my company as well. If it is truly serious, I could also have federal charges files against me

 

Blah, blah, blah... After all that effort you'd think that you could SAY what you do!! I did say 'share', not 'photograph'.

I chose to photograph because in my industry a photo is worth a thousand words easily, worth 100,000 to the layman. I'm under non-disclosure conditions and make the critical components for parts that are... out of this world? Mil Spec work I'm used to, etc... They could try to cause sheit, but there is nothing I have exposed other than I make nickel flat and shiny. Screw them...

 

B

[unccpathfinder]

Awesome stuff...I didn't get to do anything that minute but they were setting up a nanometrology lab at the university I went to and it was crazy on one of the machines b/c you could see when the oil pump kicked on...then everything got moved to a new building and they could do nothing b/c the HVAC was installed incorrectly and vibrated everything (only the machine could tell though)

[doughboy]

i work in a garage that seems to have been thought of after the fact in an Infiniti dealership... washing cars..... basicaly, derek or any of the other mechanics work on a car, I wash and vac it.... sucky job, but seeing some of the stuff people do their cars is cool.... and its M-F work for the first time since I started working.

 

Heres a pic

 

not to special, but its my area...

Edited July 12, 2008 by doughboy

[unccpathfinder]

I'm an aerospace (mechanical) engineer...but we are a small operation so you get some hands-on experience too...This is one of the projects I've worked on that I can share...(this is when I was working the 12-16hr days 6 days a week back in the winter time)

 

Our job was to cut the nose off of the radome and design/build internal support structure to withhold all the design conditions...My major contributions was designing the tooling to pick the dead center of the radome to sweep our radius on...I also did all the designing and welding for the test fixtures and figured out how to pull part of the structure at 1200lbs (which was insane b/c it was composites)

 

this is an image from the test flight:

 

 

Nasa has since then repainted the blue lines to match this aircraft since this radome was off of a different aircraft (thats y the blue lines don't line up in the 1st image)

 

 

Found a pic of the plane premod:

 

 

 

Found a Picture story of the project...pretty much all of the test fixtures, aluminum structure, stands and tooling were designed and built by me (some of the aluminum structure others helped with the fab and assembly)

 

http://atmospheres.gsfc.nasa.gov/jpserver/...-3B-Integration

 

 

most of the time I sit behind a desk CADing though...pretty much doing anything from interiors on Hawaiian Airlines to major systems on new jets (Freedom S-40)...its a pretty sweet job...and I've learned a lot especially in sheetmetal and composites...and now I can go buck rivets for a living if I have to

Edited July 16, 2008 by unccpathfinder

[Precise1]

they were setting up a nanometrology lab at the university I went to and it was crazy on one of the machines b/c you could see when the oil pump kicked on...then everything got moved to a new building and they could do nothing b/c the HVAC was installed incorrectly and vibrated everything (only the machine could tell though)

You understand then. I'm not quite at that level here, but when I had to replace a laser in the profilometer (device that traces form, accurate to 1 millionth of an inch) and tune it, I found that it 'listened' to our voices when we were next to it and spoke... When I worked for 3M R&D, I had to deal with pumps, AC, daily temperatures, etc. But then, I checked my parts in the SEM (Scanning Electron Microscope).

Working on the planes sounds like cool sheit, especially the destructive test fixturing!!

 

not to special, but its my area...

Hey, thats where it starts. It's not like I was born to this job, it took time and effort... When I was your age I was a bouncer or a waiter, or both, depending in the time.

 

B

[nunya]

I don't really have any pictures of where I work, just little parts in the background of some, like most pictures of my truck have either the pink/purple building (rose and wine to be exact, I remember painting it)in the background or one of the trucks(normally our smaller flatbed). From the flatbed being in the picture I am guessing it is a little onbvious I drive wrecker, it's a small family owned buissness, only 4 trucks on the road, which is all we need. We also do repairs as well, no bodywork though. It is definatly not a boring job, but time consuming since we tow for the local police dept. which means someone has to be local 24/7. One day may be removing an illegaly parked Caravan the next day could be recovering a rolled Mustang, always fun to shut down a small stretch of roadway and then take my time.

[Nissyota88]

weeeelll my real job is at

 

1. Mcdonalds

 

then the others

 

2. building a house, yes ground up

3. miscellaneous house building chit

4. miscellaneous stuff, wood, building a shed, helping bud work on chit

[TerranoNZ]

Well as some of you know I just started (In January) an apprenticeship in light (lite) fabrication @ Falcon-Hammersley group.

 

I've spent the majority of my time here @ Watersedge (A nasty development IMHO) putting up S/S hand rails, balcony rails and flashing's.....Site work isn't fun.

 

 

My smoko break

 

 

I've also been helping (As apprentice's do) with the manufacture of a few largeish S/S juice tanks.

At the short end of a 13 1/2 hour day I was running out of lighting................Pathfinder to the rescue

 

 

 

BTW nice topic B and I see where your user name comes from

[nunya]

BTW nice topic B and I see where your user name comes from

Good point, me being mr. observant would have never caught that,nm its late, i'm tired and slow to begin with, ignore me and back on topic.

[RowdoggNZ]

Some sweet looking occupations guys.

 

Well what can i say, i'm apprentice panelbeater at a small business called Gateway Auto Body. We specialise in restoration of American & Australian classics, worked on alot of cool stuff. I work alongside the shop owner/my boss and a tradesman. Fun place to work get alot of @!*% as the apprentice but i'm sure anyone who was one would know about that. Couple of projects at the moment, 32 Chev pick up, with 454' engine. mark 3 ford zodiac (rust repairs, these things are the biggest rust bucket i have ever seen), 61' Ford F100 ute full body rebuild. Also do a little bit of import dealership touch ups and smash repairs.

 

Long story cut short

 

@!*% pay, fun and interesting job, good workmates, and you learn alot.

[Pezzy]

I'm an unemployed artist, go figure! LOL

 

For the non poho'ers, I just lost my job. I worked at the same place for over 11 years as a graphic design & print coordinator. So I make pretty pictures on the computer, then send them to other people to put my pictures on paper.

[Trainman]

I work in forestry. Here is a selection of photos:

 

Stuck in a Forest Service truck:

 

Logging locomotive (yep, still one railway logging operation around):

 

 

One of my rides last year (better than being stuck in a Forest Service truck ):

 

What I saw from the ride above Dead pine as far as you can see:

 

One of my client's buncher going up and I had to drag the operator out of the cab:

 

My summer gear:

Edited July 16, 2008 by Trainman

[doughboy]

I work in forestry. Here is a selection of photos:

 

 

 

Logging locomotive (yep, still one railway logging operation around):

 

What model engine is that? loos like one I got packed up somwhere from one of my sets

[94extreme]

I'm an unemployed artist, go figure! LOL

 

For the non poho'ers, I just lost my job. I worked at the same place for over 11 years as a graphic design & print coordinator. So I make pretty pictures on the computer, then send them to other people to put my pictures on paper.

or threads. you gots talent girl.

 

if you look at my profile pic, that's where i work. smack dab in the center of town. i work in an country wide engineering firm. won't bore you with the details but i enjoy my paychecks.

[unccpathfinder]

Details arent boring...what kind of engineering?

[Trainman]

What model engine is that? loos like one I got packed up somwhere from one of my sets

 

It is a General Motors of Canada (GMD) SW1200RS. 1,200 hp, with some nonstandard stuff like the dynamic brakes. larger fuel tank and roof mounted air reservoirs for the train brakes. When new, they looked like this (note it is no longer Canfor but now Western Forest Products):

 

 

To my knowledge, no scale model of this has ever been made except maybe in brass but even then I am not sure about. This is one of the "must haves" for me to do up someday.

[Fukinitupagain]

One of my client's buncher going up and I had to drag the operator out of the cab:

Now did you take the pic before or after you pulled the guy out?...

[GrimGreg]

To my knowledge, no scale model of this has ever been made except maybe in brass but even then I am not sure about. This is one of the "must haves" for me to do up someday.

 

I would hope you at least try a scratchbuild. Models of things you have actually worked on/with are all that more meaningful.