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They're just the little latex finger cots I wear at work to protect delicate components from marking when I assemble them...
It was a busy day at work assembly-wise... So busy in fact, that I didn't have time to shoot any arty-farty stuff, just the things I was working on. These are known as 'Mickey Mice' for pretty obvious reasons...
Even then, it was a late night, and I didn't get a chance to upload these till today, so accept my apologies for a feeble and tardy Project 365 shot!
Oh - and yes, in an effort to jazz it up a bit, I pushed a couple of buttons in Picnik...
I discovered this on a desk at work this afternoon...
A client needs a job done on the business end of this wiring loom, but never mind that. I just thought "Ooh - pretty colours!", and snuck it into my bag to bring home to photograph...
It's that time again...
Our company's financial year ends on April 30th, and what with one thing and another, we're a bit behind with the annual stocktake. As head of the assembly department (Ie I'm the only person in there!) I'm responsible for counting every single component and armed only with a calculator and pencil, have spent today working my way through all my stock boxes.
Exciting stuff, being in precision engineering.... ;-)
Still short on inspiration - it's been yet another doozy of a day...
Stayed on late tonight, bribed by the promise of Chinese for dinner, and whilst waiting for my colleague/lodger to finish up, shot this through the window of a CNC machine that was left to run overnight.
That dark gold spray is just cutting fluid, honest!
Isn't it strange that one word can mean two completely opposite things? My job this afternoon was definitely NOT the most riveting task in the world...
...although it WAS - if you see what I mean. It was so tedious that I almost fell asleep whilst riveting components together, and it was only the noise of the rivet gun that kept me awake!
Okay - so maybe not infinity, but this threaded bar seems to stretch on for miles...
Having had to work late, I was short on time and inspiration to shoot something for my 365, and wandered around the workshop peering through the viewfinder in search of something that would suffice. After banging my head on the stairs and walking into several large pieces of equipment, I gave up that idea and settled on this instead.
It's part of a vintage manual lathe which resides in amongst all the hi-tech machinery in our workshop. I have to say, it's far more photogenic that its younger relatives!
This is what I've been doing at work this afternoon, and the reason why I now look like Clarence, the cross-eyed lion...
These plastic components are the size of a pinhead with a hole down the middle. Yup - that's them - the white dots on the piece of wire. My task was to remove the surplus material using a scalpel whilst peering at said component through a binocular microscope.
Apart from crossed eyes, I now have the shakes and cramps in my hands from gripping the scalpel and wire! :-(
After everyone had left work today, I hung on for a few minutes to take photos without the customary sarky comments from the guys on the factory floor...
S'funny what you find lying around an engineering workshop...
It cracked me up when I saw what the guys implementing our new systems at work had done with the cleaning area in the workshop...
Not that I've ever been in one, but it reminded me of some kinky dungeon in a brothel for S/M practises!
For the Macro Mondays group theme 'Drive me wild'...
These dovetail slides are free-issued to us for assembly. EVERY time we get a batch in, there's always something that isn't quite right, and Muggins here ends up having to faff about with them to get bits to fit!
It just drives me nuts!
This is how I spent my afternoon at work today...
Most of our equipment is state-of-the-art CNC machinery, but we still have some steam-powered lathes from the year dot. We're in the process of selling some of them, so if anyone wants a Schaublin watchmaking lathe, just drop me a line... ;-)
We've been having a jolly good tidy-up at work as part of the new systems being put in place...
I came across this box of intriguing plastic bits and bobs which, to the untrained eye, might look like toddlers' playthings, but a Real Proper Engineer like wot I am knows that they are sections of coolant pipes which click together and can be directed onto various tools in the CNC machines. Coolant is then sprayed over the work-in-progress to prevent the tips overheating as they cut into the metal.
Me? I just liked the pretty shapes and colours - I'm so childish... ;-)
Spotted a box of this brass swarf at work, and couldn't resist stealing a handful to photograph... ;-)
The long oily strands reminded me of pasta, so I shot it on a cobalt blue dinner plate!
www.bpe-cncprecision.co.uk Breckland Precision Engineering is a professional CNC Machining company with over 20 years’ experience in manufacturing and subcontract engineering in the small components industry.
Telephone: 01953 885 363
Email: info@bpe-cncprecision.co.uk
Address:
Unit 9-10
Coughtrey Industrial Estate
Griston
Thetford
Norfolk
IP25 6QB
I spent mine getting covered in coolant and cutting myself on errant swarf at work until gone 9pm...
I had to run one of the big CNC mills to finish someone else's job. Not terribly exciting but there are compensations... (See next pic in stream!)
Incidentally, this was taken through a very mucky viewing window, hence the 'fogginess'...