Random Thought Thread

Nathan the Machinist said:
Try sticking your hand in a box full of wires, wired to 240 volt high leg Delta three phase.

Again and again and again

While you're bent over twisted and halfway upside down, holding a flashlight in your teeth, dangling leads from the multimeter in both hands while trying to push your bifocal glasses back up your nose so you can sort of see.
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Sounds like what I do every day 🤣
 
Nathan the Machinist said:
I've been electrocuted a bunch of times
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Nathan the Machinist said:
Fortunately, this sort of thing gets much easier as you get older

I hated doing this when I was younger, with steady hands, a strong and flexible back, and perfect vision.

Boy I'll tell you what, that really sucked.

Doing this when you're old is awesome though. I'm really enjoying it a lot.
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100% My hands hurt, my back hurts and I can't see shit.
 
We have three air compressors here

Kaeser (German excellence). 4 miles of wire and an expensive PLC. 4 hours and a sore back to debug. Quiet, relatively trouble-free, and runs forever.

Quincy. (American excellence) Completely mechanical pressure switch that goes "BOOP" when the pressure gets down below 100, and "FLOOP" when the pressure gets up to 155. Noisy, trouble-free, and runs forever.

Atlas Copco. (Italian) Usually comes on around 90 and usually stops around 140. Although sometimes it only comes on at 80. Or 70. Also sometimes it goes to 155. And tries to go higher but pressure release valves pop open and sprays everything with oil mist. One day, I will set this air compressor on fire. The question is, will it be out in the road, with a flamethrower. Or will it be in the shop, while I'm at lunch.
 
Nathan the Machinist said:
We have three air compressors here

Kaeser (German excellence). 4 miles of wire and an expensive PLC. 4 hours and a sore back to debug. Quiet, relatively trouble-free, and runs forever.

Quincy. (American excellence) Completely mechanical pressure switch that goes "BOOP" when the pressure gets down below 100, and "FLOOP" when the pressure gets up to 155. Noisy, trouble-free, and runs forever.

Atlas Copco. (Italian) Usually comes on around 90 and usually stops around 140. Although sometimes it only comes on at 80. Or 70. Also sometimes it goes to 155. And tries to go higher but pressure release valves pop open and sprays everything with oil mist. One day, I will set this air compressor on fire. The question is, will it be out in the road, with a flamethrower. Or will it be in the shop, while I'm at lunch.
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Yeah but I bet it's sexy

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Nathan the Machinist said:
We have three air compressors here

Kaeser (German excellence). 4 miles of wire and an expensive PLC. 4 hours and a sore back to debug. Quiet, relatively trouble-free, and runs forever.

Quincy. (American excellence) Completely mechanical pressure switch that goes "BOOP" when the pressure gets down below 100, and "FLOOP" when the pressure gets up to 155. Noisy, trouble-free, and runs forever.

Atlas Copco. (Italian) Usually comes on around 90 and usually stops around 140. Although sometimes it only comes on at 80. Or 70. Also sometimes it goes to 155. And tries to go higher but pressure release valves pop open and sprays everything with oil mist. One day, I will set this air compressor on fire. The question is, will it be out in the road, with a flamethrower. Or will it be in the shop, while I'm at lunch.
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Not in the shop, please......🙂 Flamethrower much cooler!! 😆
 
yoko said:
They should make ones that you can rotate the lens
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That actually makes a lot of sense. There are already frames for round lenses. It shouldn’t be a difficult stretch.

Would make sense to have a mark on either the lenses, or the rotating part of the lens holders so it’s easy to tell at a glance whether they’re in the readers up, or down position (then if you’re potentially going to be doing some gymnastics where you’re unsure, you can rotate one lens up and one lens down, so you can use one eye for near and one for far, no matter what weird position you wind up in).
 
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