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Another late night at work, desperately trying to get deliveries out on time. Seventy of these little soldiers are now suited and booted and ready to roll...
Not only does the client pay for them, but I get bribed with chocolate!
No idea what these are - I just saw them on the inspection bench today and thought they looked photogenic!
Task du jour was to press-fit two 2" long pieces of dowel into a groove in these base plates.
Second task du jour was staying awake...
I decided to arrange the part-finished components into a pattern for photography - in my own time, I might add - telling my boss/brother that it was art.
"No - you're just weird..." was his bemused reply.
People often ask me what I do for a living. I reply that I work in precision engineering, at which point, they go "Ooh! That sounds interesting!"
It's not. It's repetitive and mind-numbingly tedious, hence my somewhat obsessive-compulsive methods of keeping myself amused whilst working...
These little beauties have been giving me riveting entertainment all day.