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I spent the last two days at work assembling these micro-components for a client, and my fingers are in shreds!
These are for audio use, and comprise four gold-plated pins inserted into a base; seven separate pieces in all.
Then they have to be packed as part of a kit - all 500 of them!
Had to work late tonight to 'babysit' a colleague whilst he did overtime in the workshop...
I took the opportunity to shoot a couple of pictures of my usual working environment in an unusual light - I don't normally work at night! Things look different in the dark...
Too tired for any funnies, so it's a bit of a WYSIWYG tonight.
Work is hectic at present - thank goodness! I should be grateful I still have a job in these harsh economic times, but I get so tired of doing the same old, same old, day in, day out - especially with these things!
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.
Back doing my 'daleks' today at work. We use egg trays to separate and store components, and bored as per usual, I took photos during tea break to amuse myself. I liked the depth of field in this one.
Well - I assembled them, at least! Sometimes precision engineering isn't always dull - not when you can get arty with the day's achievements!
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 it - the white dot 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.
Only another 40 to do...
An old optical alignment device was returned to us for servicing...
To check the alignment of the stages, one has to squint down an auto-collimator which sends a beam of light down a tube, reflecting back from a mirrored surface thus indicating by means of cross-hairs if the thing is in line.
I think...
We've always outsourced the engraving on these knobs before, but now we can do it ourselves, saving lots and lots of money!
...making building blocks out of precision components!
Come on, I can tell you're all absolutely enthralled with my job in assembling precision engineered components.
Imagine how I feel...
Somebody crashed one of the machines at work yesterday, wrecking this expensive reamer and the component it was machining. Fortunately, the situation was redeemable - although not the tool and the part!
The perpetrator lives to slave another day...
These components were machined from perspex for an acoustics company, but were damaged during machining...
I sneaked them home and set them to work as models for the evening instead.
Some eejit failed to spot an unfinished component, and cheerily added the duffer in with the rest...
No - it WASN'T me!!!
I pinched this from work for my picture of the day...
This was a test piece machined from a block of plastic, rather than mess up the very expensive piece of copper that it should be made from.
Pretty huh?
(They hate it when I call their engineering stuff 'pretty'...)
Had to work late tonight to 'babysit' a colleague whilst he did overtime in the workshop...
I took the opportunity to shoot a couple of pictures of my usual working environment in an unusual light - I don't normally work at night! Things look different in the dark...
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.