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I am a commercial fisherman. I own a 35 foot lobster boat in gloucester, mass. It's a tough life but i wouldn't change a thing :D
 

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T. Erdelyi said:
Which National Semi did ya work at, they were customers back in the mid 90s when I was workin' at Submicron/Akrion.

I hated workin' with the chemicals, the boilin' hot h2so4, the HF was a nightmare, I was teachin' chemical safety to all the field service techs so I was always messin' with the stuff.

The most dangerous benches in my mind were the solvent tanks, everthing caused cancer and was extremely flammable and or explosive.

Still I missed the travelin' sometimes, got to see a lotta cool stuff.:D
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Arlington. Texas. The Fab is recently closed. I had to do an on-line search to find a Bold WD and the picture posted was our very own BLD-18 Low Pressure Vapor Deposition wet deck now on a semiconductor equipment sales site. We had 2 hi-temp HF decks as I recall. I was also the On-site Incident Commander for the C-Shift Emergency Response Team. We trained at the Ft Worth emergency training facility and the FD hated calls to our Fab once the nature of the various chems became common knowledge. Explosives, pyrophorics, corrosives, oxidizers, toxic and flammable gases and always HF stuff to be respected. And the process by products were just as bad!!!

Some of our Techs played pranks with the LPVD byproducts. I had an LPVD Exhaust Scrubber blowout on me when I was sitting and working next to it. My partner said I must have set a world record and claimed he'd never seen run that fast on his ass-cheeks before.

I think we had some Submicron Decks in Fab-1. We also had a Santa Clara Plastics Piranha deck that used heated aqua-regia for metal preclean. Theres an evil etchant for ya.....highly corrosive, fuming yellow/red solution of nitric and hydrochloric acid heated to near boiling to increase its appetite for metal and almost anything else that got in its way......:mad:


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Nice work. I always admire a nicely done wall.


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AKC said:
Extinguishers?
Actually. I clean the whole thing except the extinguishing system.

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LMT66 said:
And if that was just cleaned by you, you did a great job although it looks like newly installed?

Grill hoods get nasty real quick!
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Yessirrr! They can get ridicously filthy.:barf:
Been doing it for about 5 years now, so I got some good dope for it.
 
Yeah, sorry. It was so clean I thought it was a new installation.

My first job when I came over from HI was at the Humko plant in Buena Park.

Vegetable oil refinery, deesgusting :barf:

To this day I have an issue with margerine, oleo or anything that has veg oil that's even close to going off.


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Mike G said:
I run one of these:
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Me too! You program them as well don't you Mike? What CAM system?

I program and run a Haas VM-2, 3D Systems SLA 7000, Miscellaneous machine/tool design build aspects as well as CAD/CAM support. Many machines later, I am working on moving to the other side of the fence. I have been working on my Mechanical Engineering degree :)
 
Part of my job is making sure that these folks in orange have everything they need to do their job and do it as as efficiently and safely as they can.

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Former EE, defense contractor type for 20 years, SAIC employee owner - worked on various optics programs, computer systems upgrades, gamma-ray imaging (VACIS), and pulse-forming-networks. Now retired, I drive and operate big engine #1 for the local VFD. I wrote a book on Randall knives too... ;)

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Long ago and far away I serviced these. I doubt that could even turn one on now. :confused:

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Nah, like riding a bicycle. You do know how to ride a bicycle?

See?, that wasn't so hard. No chicken, you.


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Wow. I feel like a loser. I work 20 hours a week in a grocery store deli making minimum wage. For fun and profit i go out scrapping in the neighborhood taking stuff people put in the trash and recycle it.
 
338375 said:
Thats cool.

My old neighbor was a brick layer for 30 years. His knees and back are shot..
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Ahhhh yes. I'm 38 now, and in good shape. However I'm already starting the symptoms of carpal tunnel. When driving for long distances my forearms get numb and tingle. Knees and back are good..... for now.
 
white_feather said:
Wow. I feel like a loser. I work 20 hours a week in a grocery store deli making minimum wage. For fun and profit i go out scrapping in the neighborhood taking stuff people put in the trash and recycle it.
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No one that works is a loser. And I used to do quite a bit of bin diving myself. Good on ya! :thumbup:
 
AKC said:
Nah, like riding a bicycle. You do know how to ride a bicycle?

See?, that wasn't so hard. No chicken, you.


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Yeah, I can ride a bicycle, but the day I retired I purged my mind of all the technical stuff I learned over 28 years. :p
 
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