Lost In The Fog

CraZysWeeD said:
Sounds like you are some sort of support technician in a machine shop? I
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I worked for GE back then in Lynn Massachusetts where they made parts for and assembled jet engines. I think there were 16,000 people there working then. The place was one huge machine shop. I had an electro mechanical education at the community college and GE put me in a 2 year program designed to help get people who knew electrical, mechanical, pneumatics and hydraulics in a position to repair any electronic controlled equipment they had. Best thing ever! I worked on so many different interesting things it always made the day go fast. Sadly today there's less than 2000 people working there. Things change.
 
Dunno about the back seat but we drove it from Florida to NY and the front seats were comfortable enough :).
 
InTheShed said:
Dunno about the back seat but we drove it from Florida to NY and the front seats were comfortable enough :).
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That's a fine classic car!
 
Someone totaled it when it was parked, about 2 months later. I still have the front grill and the name badges from the sides. I think my girlfriend (at the time, whose car it was) got the gas cap with the pony on it and some other bits. We sold it for parts to a restorer, and got cash from the woman who crushed it so she didn't have to tell her husband!
 
InTheShed said:
Someone totaled it when it was parked, about 2 months later. I still have the front grill and the name badges from the sides. I think my girlfriend (at the time, who's car it was) got the gas cap with the pony on it and some other bits. We sold it for parts to a restorer, and got cash from the woman who crushed it so she didn't have to tell her husband!
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Haha, cool memory there!
 
Fudo Myoo said:
I just zero them after an operator crashes one etc... stuff like this.
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and that happens a lot I can imagine... lol


stoneotter said:
made parts for and assembled jet engines
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Now that sounds interesting... :)

stoneotter said:
I had an electro mechanical education
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You still do Otter!

stoneotter said:
I think there were 16,000 people there working then.
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:oops: that's like if all the people that live in my city would work at one huge factory... and I can say that if they would those jet engines coming out wouldn't fly... lol

stoneotter said:
Things change
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They most certainly do...

InTheShed said:
Someone totaled it when it was parked, about 2 months later. I still have the front grill and the name badges from the sides. I think my girlfriend (at the time, whose car it was) got the gas cap with the pony on it and some other bits. We sold it for parts to a restorer, and got cash from the woman who crushed it so she didn't have to tell her husband!
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Wtf! That's some sad story... you should have sold the bits and parts here, those things are more expensive than gold here. I actually got a mustang pony emblem myself, snatched it when working at a car scrap in my youth. Don't think its an original part though, some one had put it on his Volvo 740 grill... lol I put it on the dog kennel I built, this was for Ginzas forerunner that we called Horsie... :laughtwo:
 
CraZysWeeD said:
:oops: that's like if all the people that live in my city would work at one huge factory... and I can say that if they would those jet engines coming out wouldn't fly... lol
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There was so much action that it was like running the gauntlet just to walk through the building! With every work station having a crane of some sort and fork lifts everywhere moving parts around it was a madhouse! I miss that action. Yes it was like a city. It came with all the things like drugs, alcohol, prostitution and thievery. Like the city I grew up in. Yep that's the place.
 
stoneotter said:
There was so much action that it was like running the gauntlet just to walk through the building! With every work station having a crane of some sort and fork lifts everywhere moving parts around it was a madhouse! I miss that action. Yes it was like a city. It came with all the things like drugs, alcohol, prostitution and thievery. Like the city I grew up in. Yep that's the place.
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Really sounds like the place for me to have been in as well... But the only thing capable of fueling such a industry is spelled war and military. Soo the only way we possibly could get back those times is if we encounter a bad E.T. and start an arms race in space.... Btw you heard they taken the next step in rocket engines with the help of 3d printing? Apparently someone designed and printed a functional liquid cooled exhaust mantle. (Maybe Poseidon II) :laughtwo:
 
CraZysWeeD said:
Really sounds like the place for me to have been in as well... But the only thing capable of fueling such a industry is spelled war and military. Soo the only way we possibly could get back those times is if we encounter a bad E.T. and start an arms race in space.... Btw you heard they taken the next step in rocket engines with the help of 3d printing? Apparently someone designed and printed a functional liquid cooled exhaust mantle. (Maybe Poseidon II) :laughtwo:
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I haven't kept up with that technology so nothing surprises me. I remember the hot sections to be tough to engineer. We sprayed powdered metal onto the afterburner parts to help them deflect heat. That was odd to me but all the jets with afterburners use that tech. New ways to get things done is too cool. Printing something with cooling needs sounds like a printer was perfect for the job. The old way had us removing metal chips from hidden interior places using x-rays and blind shaking for interiors.
 
stoneotter said:
Printing something with cooling needs sounds like a printer was perfect for the job. The old way had us removing metal chips from hidden interior places using x-rays and blind shaking for interiors.
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Yeah that's were printing or sintering stuff gets useful as you say constructing structures that was almost impossible before with any other fabrication way, x-rays and blind shaking in all its glory though.... LoL :)

Btw, yesterday the motherboard on my printer burned up... lol Guess it couldn't handle 24/7 printing for almost 6 months. Managed to order a new one through Amazon.de, we haven't got any official Swedish version yet but they would deliver it here and this is so much better than the original one... 32-bit cpu... :cheesygrinsmiley:
 
CraZysWeeD said:
Yeah that's were printing or sintering stuff gets useful as you say constructing structures that was almost impossible before with any other fabrication way, x-rays and blind shaking in all its glory though.... LoL :)

Btw, yesterday the motherboard on my printer burned up... lol Guess it couldn't handle 24/7 printing for almost 6 months. Managed to order a new one through Amazon.de, we haven't got any official Swedish version yet but they would deliver it here and this is so much better than the original one... 32-bit cpu... :cheesygrinsmiley:
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Good finding!
 
NorthernCosmos said:
The Swedish zon is open now. Yesterday it had carried over the records from the co.uk branch, but dropped those from the .de branch. Today my account is blank (no order history). So a little mess there - perhaps it's still a WIP, but it's up and running.
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So you ordered through co.uk? This is were things get messy now... I ordered airbrush paint from a uk based company and this took for ever to get delivered. Read some about the brexit situation and deliveries made from there to here, customs have made an exception until Dec this year on purchases made there regarding extra fees with tax and declaration fees but I still think they are inspected for some reason. First delivery almost got lost and showed up 3 weeks after ordering it, an order from Germany usually show up within a few days... but I'm guessing its 90% PostNords fault. :laughtwo:
 
I ordered from the uk branch in February. The order took it's sweet time to arrive and with no tracking. I switched to the German branch to avoid having packages getting entangled in brexit.

The Swedish zon can't help me with reasonably priced perlite though - that was planned to be a test order for the new branch; I can put them in the cart, but on checkout none of it can be delivered to Swedish addresses :rolleyes: For the next plants it's back to crushed clay pebbles it seems :p
 
NorthernCosmos said:
The Swedish zon can't help me with reasonably priced perlite though - that was planned to be a test order for the new branch; I can put them in the cart, but on checkout none of it can be delivered to Swedish addresses :rolleyes: For the next plants it's back to crushed clay pebbles it seems
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Perlite is very expensive here, I know... I used to buy Weibulls and you probably know what those 3L bags costs.. lol But one this that's positive with a medium like this is if you are reasonably careful with handling it can be washed and reused. I tried both this and clay pebbles and I must say I prefer the later one, easier to handle and don't make a dust mess where its handled, easier to wash and reuse.

Hope you get that order through soon though...
 
Can you get your hands on pumice for a better price? @FelipeBlu practically mines the stuff!
 
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