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Just some components I was working on today...
I'd placed these on a hotplate to cure the adhesive, each resting on the previous one so they weren't lying flat. Then my artistic side kicked in and I decided to photograph the arrangement - not realising the camera was still on B&W setting, as the components are silver against a black background!
Tiny pearls piled high in a gold and silver platter...
...or simply 2mm ceramic balls which are used in non-magnetic assemblies at work, heaped into a stainless steel disc which in turn sits on a brass nut...
I just love the neat ranks of collets in the newly painted storage boards at work...
Just for a giggle, I've softened and Ortonised them as a contrast to their harsh metallic state, and now remind me of rows of silver chocolates. Funny how I have chocolate on the brain at any given time of the day...
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!
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...