2 minutes silence...

[Incursus]

...broken by the fire engine turning up as the building manager decided to use the fire alarms to anounce the start and finish of the silence

[Andy]

My machine at work was running a hard roughing cycle all the way through, bloody 316 knackering out my tips!

[FUBAR]

I sat here with my eyes closed... nearly fell asleep!

[F Body]

We had the 2 minutes silence a couple of minutes late

Somebody needs a new watch

[Cunning Plan]

Quoting: F Body

We had the 2 minutes silence a couple of minutes late  

[Fieldy]

couple years back at Heathrow, they gave us a 5 minutes until silence alarm, all the shops weren't aware so the airport grounded to a halt, only to realise the error a couple mins later, and have to re-do it at the right time...

I was in bed at 11, so no work to distract me today!

[philoldsmobile]

Quoting: Andy

My machine at work was running a hard roughing cycle all the way through, bloody 316 knackering out my tips!

Been there, done that..... quite a material to deal with. now, a nice bit of EN1A mild steel, just lovely.

[Andy]

Quoting: philoldsmobile

a nice bit of EN1A mild steel, just lovely

Easy to machine yes, but just this week I had a 3" long x .314" diameter to turn with a .0005" tolerance along it, on top of which had a 8μm finish. With no tailstock this ended up with me leaving it just big and fettling it down on my handy little de-pipping machine with some fine emery and cloth.

[philoldsmobile]

I used to machine caliper and master cylinder pistons, +0 - 0.02mm tolerance. not too bad with a decent manual lathe. Its a shame engineering services went under, for an old style machine shop they had some lovely machines.

who on earth was the job for with measurements in imperial?

[Andy]

Quoting: philoldsmobile

who on earth was the job for with measurements in imperial?

The family firm has been in business for years, these are jobs we've been turning out from the year dot and as such we have original drawings etc.

All our machines except the two new Haas' are set up in imperial. In my opinion it makes far more sense than metric. Besides, my best mic is imperial!

[philoldsmobile]

Quoting: Andy

All our machines except the two new Haas' are set up in imperial. In my opinion it makes far more sense than metric.

wow. I'm genuinely shocked.

[Andy]

Quoting: philoldsmobile

wow. I'm genuinely shocked.

Well now you know how i felt about your suggestion of a Alpha as a reliable car.

[Amey]

Quoting: Andy

Well now you know how i felt about your suggestion of a Alpha as a reliable car.

[VIPER]

Shelby's remembrance day assembly 11 on the dot...

She did it for her great grandad who is now 91 and her grandad (my Dad 59) they have been remembering our forces all week in school past and present


11th hour 11th day 11th month in 2011