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Had to take some macro shots for work to demonstrate how these components were damaged in transit by inefficient packing...

  

...except Despatch...

 

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!

 

View On Black

 

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.

This is another bane of my working life... (The first being that I need to work at all!)

 

This is me cutting precision grooves in small blocks for fibre alignment. A tiny block roughly 2cms long is clamped into the gizmo, and the cutting tip lowered to etch a precise depth using an electronic meter reader.

 

Or should that be MILLImeter reader?

Someone obviously didn't clear up after themselves...

A bit of soft lighting, artful use of DoF, and it makes the daily grind almost bearable...

 

Well - at least until coffee break.

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