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Sorry about the sale thread being late today

Lagavulin 16 is my go-to - when I can find it. As such it ends up being an infrequent treat. Plenty of others to keep me company otherwise.

Treat yourself, Nathan. No reason to beat yourself up.

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bluemax_1 said:
Certifiable and certified, totally not the same thing 😅

Glad to hear you’re OK, Nate, but what the heck led you to wind up in that position?
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We're doing some heat treat development work and our process is a little bit more complicated than some which requires multiple ovens, and running multiple samples through at the same time and having to overlap functions (different kinds of cryo), it gets complicated because timing is critical

So we're running around like chickens with our heads cut off

And then the forklift repair guy can't get the forklift to go into gear and there are a lot of reasons for that.

This is not a normal forklift, this is an Entwistle.

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These have capabilities that we really need here but they're complicated.

They have a locking transfer case, locking axles and three speed transmission forward and reverse on a Cummins 4BT diesel engine. The electronics won't allow you to put it into gear if the parking brake is engaged and this machine had been prepped for flat tow which involves disengaging a transmission component and a hydraulic brake component. The lever for re-engaging the transmission was stuck and we figure that was probably why it would not engage the transmission but getting underneath it to actually inspect that linkage is difficult because, you're crawling underneath the forklift, they're not known for their superb ground clearance.

So I have to compress my rib cage and literally squeeze under there to get a view of the linkage going into the transmission and I got good and stuck and while wiggling around my phone fell out of my pocket.

So the whole afternoon was characterized by scrambling and then this one interruption and this happened to land right when I was supposed to be doing the sale thread. And mind you there's always a lot of other crap going on (a Makino had a failed tool change this morning due to insufficient air pressure and resolving a failed tool change is, well I'm sure you know), but this one was special. I had told Jo at two that I needed to get ready for that sale but then the forklift repair guy snatched me and started describing the problems he was having with the solenoid valves and the wiring and trying to trace a wire in a harness and we're talking about how these solenoid valves work and whether or not this linkage is involved and I just got distracted.

Sorry about that.
 
Pàdruig said:
Lagavulin 16 is my go-to - when I can find it. As such it ends up being an infrequent treat. Plenty of others to keep me company otherwise.

Treat yourself, Nathan. No reason to beat yourself up.

NEwVPuC.jpg
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Laga is always a great choice! 😍

I spy some Seagrass up there... which one? That looks like the one my buddy and I celebrated with when I killed my muzzleloader doe this season! Yum!!! :cool:

Nathan the Machinist said:
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Tempering oven calibration looks pretty good
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Nice meter! I have the same one. :thumbsup:
 
SpyderPhreak said:
Laga is always a great choice! 😍

I spy some Seagrass up there... which one? That looks like the one my buddy and I celebrated with when I killed my muzzleloader doe this season! Yum!!! :cool:


Nice meter! I have the same one. :thumbsup:
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I literally wore one out. Had it a looooong time. This one is my second one.
 
Nathan the Machinist said:
We're doing some heat treat development work and our process is a little bit more complicated than some which requires multiple ovens, and running multiple samples through at the same time and having to overlap functions (different kinds of cryo), it gets complicated because timing is critical

So we're running around like chickens with our heads cut off

And then the forklift repair guy can't get the forklift to go into gear and there are a lot of reasons for that.

This is not a normal forklift, this is an Entwistle.

View attachment 2717692

These have capabilities that we really need here but they're complicated.

They have a locking transfer case, locking axles and three speed transmission forward and reverse on a Cummins 4BT diesel engine. The electronics won't allow you to put it into gear if the parking brake is engaged and this machine had been prepped for flat tow which involves disengaging a transmission component and a hydraulic brake component. The lever for re-engaging the transmission was stuck and we figure that was probably why it would not engage the transmission but getting underneath it to actually inspect that linkage is difficult because, you're crawling underneath the forklift, they're not known for their superb ground clearance.

So I have to compress my rib cage and literally squeeze under there to get a view of the linkage going into the transmission and I got good and stuck and while wiggling around my phone fell out of my pocket.

So the whole afternoon was characterized by scrambling and then this one interruption and this happened to land right when I was supposed to be doing the sale thread. And mind you there's always a lot of other crap going on (a Makino had a failed tool change this morning due to insufficient air pressure and resolving a failed tool change is, well I'm sure you know), but this one was special. I had told Jo at two that I needed to get ready for that sale but then the forklift repair guy snatched me and started describing the problems he was having with the solenoid valves and the wiring and trying to trace a wire in a harness and we're talking about how these solenoid valves work and whether or not this linkage is involved and I just got distracted.

Sorry about that.
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Ah.

Always make me sketched out when hearing about folks getting caught under heavy machinery/equipment.
 
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