What did you do at work today?
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Welp.. off to an interesting start at the new job..
I ended up leaving Ryder before time and starting early at the new place.
Well yesterday I went to take a look at another one of our shops where my service truck was getting a welder and air compressor installed. Super shady install,welder was put in awkward position but the wiring.. that is where the fun starts.
The wiring was ran all over the place held with metal p-clamps 6 gauge wire with a hammered on terminal bolted to another terminal with an 10 gauge wire wrapped in tape..
So showed it to our shop manager and explained that I was going to be redoing it on Monday.
I loaded up my box drove to Home Depot bought a couple tools then went to Autozone to buy a couple batteries as the truck needed to be jumped every time.
Grabbed the batteries with plans to swap them out at a job site I was headed to…
Well I didn’t make it to the job site. I was turning in the the street where the site was and was lucky that there was a fire department. The corner. One other the other guys. Was in front of when he looked back and saw some flames coming from the corner of the box.
I guess now they can say we brought the fire to them. Pulled up blaring the horn luckily the fire had just started but did enough damage that I am now getting a new box and quite a few new tools.
Honestly not as upset as I thought I would be. Considering this was a year old Matco 6s 31” inch deep, “msrp” was $19k but I didn’t pay anywhere near that.
The fire melted the strap that was holding up my box. It fell over as I made a u-turn to get to the fire department. It got burnt and a few dents in the front.
I ended up leaving Ryder before time and starting early at the new place.
Well yesterday I went to take a look at another one of our shops where my service truck was getting a welder and air compressor installed. Super shady install,welder was put in awkward position but the wiring.. that is where the fun starts.
The wiring was ran all over the place held with metal p-clamps 6 gauge wire with a hammered on terminal bolted to another terminal with an 10 gauge wire wrapped in tape..
So showed it to our shop manager and explained that I was going to be redoing it on Monday.
I loaded up my box drove to Home Depot bought a couple tools then went to Autozone to buy a couple batteries as the truck needed to be jumped every time.
Grabbed the batteries with plans to swap them out at a job site I was headed to…
Well I didn’t make it to the job site. I was turning in the the street where the site was and was lucky that there was a fire department. The corner. One other the other guys. Was in front of when he looked back and saw some flames coming from the corner of the box.
I guess now they can say we brought the fire to them. Pulled up blaring the horn luckily the fire had just started but did enough damage that I am now getting a new box and quite a few new tools.
Honestly not as upset as I thought I would be. Considering this was a year old Matco 6s 31” inch deep, “msrp” was $19k but I didn’t pay anywhere near that.
The fire melted the strap that was holding up my box. It fell over as I made a u-turn to get to the fire department. It got burnt and a few dents in the front.
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Pulled the heads off the 389 in this 65 GTO. Engine was rebuilt back in 09 by a local machine shop. I thought way back when some of the engine work was questionable. It recently popped the head gasket between 4-6 cylinders.
Up here there is a lot of concern about disease in the herds, which mostly displays as a type of motor disfunction that makes them stagger around like they are drunk or spastic. The other issue is aboriginal rights to hunt on their treaty territories as they see fit and ignore the hunting laws and Conservation Authority Cops into the bargain. Over legislated and under managed. The two do not necessarily co-exist in harmoney.
Nick
Nick
Something a little bit different than my norm for work. I'm putting a clutch fan, shroud, and rad in a 63 or 64 Buick with a nailhead. Someone put the wrong tig welded aluminum one in it and it was hitting the hood in 3 places it had no shroud at all and the upper bracket was cut and welded together wrong. I'll get some pictures later
On a week-long pipe job for New West Freightliner. Used to do these all the time, but have been a little too good at the mechanical repairs lately or something. I’m a little rusty, but it’s coming back quickly.
Started hanging pipe today, this’ll be a complete loop with one branch run and 9 drops. It’s the blue pipe in case it wasn’t obvious.
Panoramic view of the whole shop:
The interesting part is going to be hanging it over the staircase with a wall penetration into a training room on the other side.
Then of course, I’ve gotta tie in their old compressor, recommission it, and do a service on it as it hasn’t been touched since 2019. 😕
Started hanging pipe today, this’ll be a complete loop with one branch run and 9 drops. It’s the blue pipe in case it wasn’t obvious.
Panoramic view of the whole shop:
The interesting part is going to be hanging it over the staircase with a wall penetration into a training room on the other side.
Then of course, I’ve gotta tie in their old compressor, recommission it, and do a service on it as it hasn’t been touched since 2019. 😕
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I was taking a piss at the drag strip and got a call about a job interview. Definitely caught me with my pants down.
