Pictures from work. {dial-up warning}

[Ptah]

[Suich]

1. I have no idea what that is, but

it sure is purty!

How're your sunflowers doing?



:)

[Ptah]

2. It's a thing.

Unfortunately, my sunflowers did not survive the hottest of the summer.

Maybe next year.

[bluesbassman]

3. Nice piece Ptah.

Looks like the top or bottom half. Is it part of a chamber assembly, or does it support a third part?

[Ptah]

4. It's the main assembly that holds the lenses for a billion pixel camera.

on the mountain.

[bluesbassman]

5. Very cool.

I could definitely get some good sports pics with that baby! :)

[JVS]

6. You work on the Stargate?

Shit man, what the fuck did you major in?

[Ptah]

7. Shoprat, Phd.

[elshiva]

8. This a portal to another world.

Step through it and you enter a land of wonder. :)

[JVS]

10. like the cave!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5im0Ssyyus

[DS1]

9. The office where I work is a small subset of a major machine shop

There's some interesting characters there, and they are all cool. One of them saved our company about 1,000 dollars by drilling holes in a 'blank' hard drive cassette for one of our servers. "Hey, can you guys drill some holes here and here and here and here?". Fuck yeah, come over to the press, just mark the spots.

Awesome. It was like IT nerds meet American Chopper. Only lacking the chrome.

[Ptah]

11. You need to find a blacksmith. Much to learn, grasshopper

[DS1]

12. I'd love to learn that skill, however

in this case, a very exact drill is what was needed and used.

Shit, I should have been given a bonus for 'thinking outside the box'. Instead of ordering a new drive cartridge from Dell, we drilled holes through the blank, installed the drive, and got that shit done!

[uncle ray]

13. nice, looks like many weeks of time into that subassembly.

and lots of stress.


i'm "just" a toolroom machinist who doesn't get to do anything quite like that. we specialize mostly in medical implants.