The "Firearm-Hating Company" thread made me think of all the different occupations TFLers must have. So what's yours?
I work in a precision-machined engine components plant. Most of the plant is dedicated to turbocharger production, but I work in a smaller, louder, dirtier, heavier department, making the dreaded
65 lb Torsional Vibration Damper!!!
of recent fame, and others not so famous.
A torsional vibration damper mounts on a crankshaft and reduces vibrations. Most of what we make is for diesel heavy equipment, but we make one or two versions for automobiles, mostly Saab (they weigh about 3 lbs. I like those
)
The 65 lb deal goes onto a combine harvester or something similarly huge made by John Deere. Caterpillar is another big customer. Anyone buy a BIG diesel Ford truck in the last few years? You probably have one of my company's dampers on your engine.
And probably one of our fan drives, too. I used to run the electro-coating machine for fan drive rotors, but that department was sold last year.
Now I run different machines in the assembly department: coating the damper components with industrial adhesive, smushing them together in a 20-ton hydraulic press, running them through a 60 foot long oven to cure the adhesive, balancing the assemblies by drilling holes in them when they're too heavy on one side, and running them through the paint booth conveyor so they look special for the customer, who re-paints them anyway. I love it. NO CUSTOMER SERVICE!!! I will never ring a cash register again!
The company was known as Schwitzer until a few months ago, when we were bought out by the Borg-Warner Automotive corporation. Yes, there were endless "We have been assimilated", "Resistance is futile", and "We are Borg" jokes.
So that's what I do every night until 11:00 and I run home to TFL. Your turn...
-boing
PS- I wasn't going to include any obligatory firearms content (it is general discussion, y'know), but I just realized: most of the older machines in my area made US shell casings in WWII. Every time someone complains about them not being "precision" enough I say, "Hey man, don't 'dis' the New Britain machines! Those things won The War for us!"
I work in a precision-machined engine components plant. Most of the plant is dedicated to turbocharger production, but I work in a smaller, louder, dirtier, heavier department, making the dreaded
65 lb Torsional Vibration Damper!!!
of recent fame, and others not so famous.
A torsional vibration damper mounts on a crankshaft and reduces vibrations. Most of what we make is for diesel heavy equipment, but we make one or two versions for automobiles, mostly Saab (they weigh about 3 lbs. I like those
) The 65 lb deal goes onto a combine harvester or something similarly huge made by John Deere. Caterpillar is another big customer. Anyone buy a BIG diesel Ford truck in the last few years? You probably have one of my company's dampers on your engine.
And probably one of our fan drives, too. I used to run the electro-coating machine for fan drive rotors, but that department was sold last year.
Now I run different machines in the assembly department: coating the damper components with industrial adhesive, smushing them together in a 20-ton hydraulic press, running them through a 60 foot long oven to cure the adhesive, balancing the assemblies by drilling holes in them when they're too heavy on one side, and running them through the paint booth conveyor so they look special for the customer, who re-paints them anyway. I love it. NO CUSTOMER SERVICE!!! I will never ring a cash register again!
The company was known as Schwitzer until a few months ago, when we were bought out by the Borg-Warner Automotive corporation. Yes, there were endless "We have been assimilated", "Resistance is futile", and "We are Borg" jokes.
So that's what I do every night until 11:00 and I run home to TFL. Your turn...
-boing
PS- I wasn't going to include any obligatory firearms content (it is general discussion, y'know), but I just realized: most of the older machines in my area made US shell casings in WWII. Every time someone complains about them not being "precision" enough I say, "Hey man, don't 'dis' the New Britain machines! Those things won The War for us!"
