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Ok, everyone's got stuff at work that their employer or co-workers or suppliers do that elicits a collective "WTF?", so here's a few things I've snapped pics of where I work:
First up, an ABS plastic crate stacked on top of another crate:
The bottom of the top crate has completely busted, and the contents of the top crate are now in the bottom crate. It's impossible to get a forklift under the top crate to lift it, and the walls of the bottom crate are held in place by fairly thin tabs. It's been like this for a month. Each part weighs about 1 pound, and there's 1500 parts in a crate. Any day now...
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Next up, photographic evidence of the theory which states that anything left on the break table for more than 6 hours will become an ashtray.
While we do use scrap parts for ashtrays, we try to use ones that do not have holes in them. This example is only 12 hours old, but we have had some that were 3 months or more. Yes, people target the holes to grind out a butt.
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Next on the list - conclusive evidence that the South shall NOT rise again - they'll all kill themselves when their "ingenuity" comes back to haunt them:
Note how the simple wooden blocks seem to be supporting the total weight of a 36"x24"x72" 2 ton block of solid forged iron. [img]/images/graemlins/brow.gif[/img]
The blocks on the left are stacked on their narrow sides. You can't walk 5 feet carrying these blocks stacked like this without them falling, so I guess it's only a matter of time before....
Our Safe Operating Procedure states that we should use the manufacturer-supplied cast iron Stop Block to brace the press.
Here it is now, conveniently stored in its proper place not 5 feet from the press:
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And the Prize of my photo collection - The 95 Ton press.
95 tons is the pressure limit it can exert, not the actual weight of the machine, but still you can imagine that something has to be sturdy enough to survive the force of such a blow.
So why in the hell would anyone give such a machine the ability to tilt FORWARD up to 45 degrees!?
Note the arrow that indicates the slot at the rear of the machine. Each stop point is roughly 8" apart. WHY!?! To mount it on a hillside?? This machine is about 15 feet tall, 3 feet wide, and 5 feet deep, sitting flat on the floor. Would YOU stand in front of this thing mounted on a 45 degree incline?
There's sooo much more, but I'll post those later.
First up, an ABS plastic crate stacked on top of another crate:
The bottom of the top crate has completely busted, and the contents of the top crate are now in the bottom crate. It's impossible to get a forklift under the top crate to lift it, and the walls of the bottom crate are held in place by fairly thin tabs. It's been like this for a month. Each part weighs about 1 pound, and there's 1500 parts in a crate. Any day now...
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Next up, photographic evidence of the theory which states that anything left on the break table for more than 6 hours will become an ashtray.
While we do use scrap parts for ashtrays, we try to use ones that do not have holes in them. This example is only 12 hours old, but we have had some that were 3 months or more. Yes, people target the holes to grind out a butt.
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Next on the list - conclusive evidence that the South shall NOT rise again - they'll all kill themselves when their "ingenuity" comes back to haunt them:
Note how the simple wooden blocks seem to be supporting the total weight of a 36"x24"x72" 2 ton block of solid forged iron. [img]/images/graemlins/brow.gif[/img]
The blocks on the left are stacked on their narrow sides. You can't walk 5 feet carrying these blocks stacked like this without them falling, so I guess it's only a matter of time before....
Our Safe Operating Procedure states that we should use the manufacturer-supplied cast iron Stop Block to brace the press.
Here it is now, conveniently stored in its proper place not 5 feet from the press:
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And the Prize of my photo collection - The 95 Ton press.
95 tons is the pressure limit it can exert, not the actual weight of the machine, but still you can imagine that something has to be sturdy enough to survive the force of such a blow.
So why in the hell would anyone give such a machine the ability to tilt FORWARD up to 45 degrees!?
Note the arrow that indicates the slot at the rear of the machine. Each stop point is roughly 8" apart. WHY!?! To mount it on a hillside?? This machine is about 15 feet tall, 3 feet wide, and 5 feet deep, sitting flat on the floor. Would YOU stand in front of this thing mounted on a 45 degree incline?
There's sooo much more, but I'll post those later.
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