Our Location today is Windsor, Ontario.
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As I mentioned in last night’s Blog, I headed into work early today to hopefully completely weld Two Feedscrews. By the time the first one was hot enough to start, the rest of the day crew had arrived for their shift.
After Four Hours it was ready to be put in the Sandbox completely finished. As I was loading the second Unit into the PTA, Mile brought me over to a Rebuilt Screw that had been welded over a month ago. Even though it was a perfect weld he complained that the side edge that is hand cleaned was too much and I had to change the Rotation Speed on the PTA, starting with the Feedscrew I was about to weld. No matter how I tried to explain to him that it was the Oscillating Speed and Width that needed adjusting, he would not listen.
Standing
there while I made changes to the Numbers
he
was happy, but when I hit the “Begin
to Weld”
button and the Torch
plunged straight into the weld he was saying I did that. I reset
everything and had him push the button, of which he had the same
results. I did a few Hard
Restarts
before the welding started had
the Torch
tracking too much to the Right,
instead of slightly Left.
Like before Christmas,
I had to stop the process twice to reset the Torch
on the Oscillating
Bar
in
order to continue welding.
I simply looked at Mile before each restart. When it finally
started working the way it should, the Hard
Surfacing Powder
suddenly stopped coming down the tube. No matter what I did the
Powder
was
not reaching the Torch
from the Bin.
With at least Three
Hours of
welding to complete the job, I simply buried it in the
Sandbox
for the night as
Mile walked away.
I was hot, sweaty and tired when I punched out at 4:03.
When I got home Kathy suggested having a Store-Bought Thin-Crust Vegetarian Pizza for supper.
Our 6 o’clock Local News showed more wet weather heading our way.
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Be Safe and Enjoy!
It’s about time.
Krackers
What do you call a classy fish?
Sofishticated.
It sound like you are almost to the point of: "How much do I really need this job". If it were me, I would start thinking about exit strategies. You sound like a talented guy, you should have no trouble finding another gig.
ReplyDeleteThen the angel on the other shoulder says: "sometimes it is better to deal with the devil that you know than one you don't."
It has got to be really frustrating, though.