Random Thought Thread

yoko said:
Hahaha depends
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Mine is black quartz with some dark gold colored pin striping but I’d like some more color added to it, I was thinking some airbrush work but as soon as I’m contemplating really looking into it, I remember I want to upgrade the stereo/gps unit and would love some chrome wheels.

Then a CPK pre-order hits or something else happens haha.
 
I take pics of my buddies peeing on road trips for some reason and I have some pretty funny ones. I like to send these out to them after a couple years to see if they remember that particular ride haha. This was just a couple weekends ago on a cold ass over night trip, I think it was 46 or so here?

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sickpuppy1 said:
What did you unf*ck today, Mr?

Sounds like the title for a new sub forum……
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I started my morning getting out of the shower at 7:30 and Mr. Ben texted me "Nate, the green machine won't turn on".

A stuck contactor.

I had a bad wye delta contactor on the Makino just last week. It had a problem in a relatively complex fully potted circuit board. Why does a contactor even need a circuit board?
 
I've been thinking about getting away from the pre-order system.



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It would be simpler to make what I want, when I want and sell what I want on whatever schedule works best for us. There really is no good business reason to do pre-orders and they make our business less adaptable due to the scheduling obligations that are necessary. It made a lot of sense when we were smaller and we had all these restrictions in our manufacturing process where our inventory was limited, sales were very brisk and there was advantages for everybody to take orders and scale things up.

The problem with pre-order is, once I have your money you are reasonably entitled to schedules and updates. I don't want to be in that position anymore. It's not fair to you guys and it's not how I want to operate. I think it's time to change our model and do things like the SDFK where we simply make product and sell it on Fridays. Easy peasy.
 
Damned
Nathan the Machinist said:
I started my morning getting out of the shower at 7:30 and Mr. Ben texted me "Nate, the green machine won't turn on".

A stuck contactor.

I had a bad wye delta contactor on the Makino just last week. It had a problem in a relatively complex fully potted circuit board. Why does a contactor even need a circuit board?
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Damned engineers, LOL
Carrier did the same kinda jazz back in the 70 on residential air conditioners, Had this 6x8 inch pc board in the outdoor AC (smart, huh? pc boards that live outside....)
nightmare to diagnose and fix, and one day on a 10-15 year old unit that the board was bad, quoted about 800 dollars for the board, and listening to a customer GO OFF about highway robbery and such. I sat staring at it for a few minutes
and said let me stare at the process here....I have an idea...He left and after looking at it and wandering thru the schematic, I realized that none of it was truly needed and all this needs is 24 volt source to energize the contactor. and what was once a five minute time delay on the board is actually handle by most digital thermostats now days.
I stuck in a contactor after riping out the board and wiring, hooked up yellow and common to the contactor and poof, it take off running. The guy comes out with a WTF look on his face and looks at the board on the grass and I looked back at him and said.
"damned engineers". I explained what was going on and what it really needed and then he told me that while inside, he called a few places and was quoted even higher prices and a refusal to work on it. he paid me 1/4 the original price and was happy as hell. And them with a chuckle he told me he was an electrical engineer......
 
sickpuppy1 said:
Damned



Damned engineers, LOL
Carrier did the same kinda jazz back in the 70 on residential air conditioners, Had this 6x8 inch pc board in the outdoor AC (smart, huh? pc boards that live outside....)
nightmare to diagnose and fix, and one day on a 10-15 year old unit that the board was bad, quoted about 800 dollars for the board, and listening to a customer GO OFF about highway robbery and such. I sat staring at it for a few minutes
and said let me stare at the process here....I have an idea...He left and after looking at it and wandering thru the schematic, I realized that none of it was truly needed and all this needs is 24 volt source to energize the contactor. and what was once a five minute time delay on the board is actually handle by most digital thermostats now days.
I stuck in a contactor after riping out the board and wiring, hooked up yellow and common to the contactor and poof, it take off running. The guy comes out with a WTF look on his face and looks at the board on the grass and I looked back at him and said.
"damned engineers". I explained what was going on and what it really needed and then he told me that while inside, he called a few places and was quoted even higher prices and a refusal to work on it. he paid me 1/4 the original price and was happy as hell. And them with a chuckle he told me he was an electrical engineer......
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Chicks dig guys with SKILLS.

You still need to work on your nunchuck and bowstaff skills however.
 
tinfoil hat timmy said:
Murphjd25 Murphjd25 Does your wife like to light M80s and put em in the dishwasher in progressively higher numbers to see how many it can contain and still run too?
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Funny story...I used to keep fireworks in my toolbox which is next to the bathroom... if someone took a really nasty dump I would throw one in the bathroom

Well one day a guy asked me to give him one....... he threw it in the stall a guy was still "making a deposit" in ..... and it wasn't pretty hahaha

I can't have fireworks at work anymore
 
yoko said:
Funny story...I used to keep fireworks in my toolbox which is next to the bathroom... if someone took a really nasty dump I would throw one in the bathroom

Well one day a guy asked me to give him one....... he threw it in the stall a guy was still "making a deposit" in ..... and it wasn't pretty hahaha

I can't have fireworks at work anymore
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A college friend decided to see what would happen if put a lit moon traveler in a toilet bowl. It makes a fun party noise then cracks the bowl. 🥳
 
yoko said:
Funny story...I used to keep fireworks in my toolbox which is next to the bathroom... if someone took a really nasty dump I would throw one in the bathroom

Well one day a guy asked me to give him one....... he threw it in the stall a guy was still "making a deposit" in ..... and it wasn't pretty hahaha

I can't have fireworks at work anymore
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''Golly! it seems like you gentlemen are a bit too reckless to have explosives at work''

THATS how I envision the conversation after the event proceeded.
 
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