Fuckin who?

Lmfaoooo

As fucking awful and dystopian as this shit is, I know one particular motherfucker who is about to get his shit rocked administration style.

Welder I worked with at the coast guard was the laziest, most disgusting individual I have ever had the misfortune of meeting. He would regularly take 45+ minute "bathroom breaks" where he would sit in the stall on the phone with his wife or even straight up go to sleep sitting on the toilet. On the few occasions he actually needed to go, he would STILL TALK ON THE PHONE TO HIS WIFE.

WHAT THE ACTUAL GROWN UP FUCK.

I cannot fucking fathom a universe in which it is ever permissible to chitchat on the phone at work with your spouse while taking a shit. Never have I seen such little class or dignity in a professional setting. I asked my super about it and he said they've tried talking to him about it and he just does not see any problem with his behavior. Any other industry would get rid of him in a fucking heartbeat but government was always so scared of any kind of discrimination or cultural insensitivity complaint that they never addressed it. Now?

Now that guy is super fucked and it couldn't have happened to a bigger piece of shit.

Lmaoo

It's very hard to tell with this guy, probably because he's an engineer first and the owner second. I grew up around a bunch of gas and electrical engineers, so it's not too terrible for me. Some of the other guys in the shop very much struggle with communicating with him though, which is understandable if you don't speak engineer.

Sometimes I throw out a tooling suggestion and he shoots it down immediately. Today, I pitched getting a Darex auto tool sharpener and he's all aboard as soon as I told him the local coast guard base had one. I never really know how he's going to react to things lol

Total bore is a little over 4.5, so I had a ton of material left to correct the hole. Biggest struggle was keeping the tool pressure low so the drill didn't spin in the tailstock. Morse taper is all chewed up, which was a nasty little surprise for me. Got'r'done tho

Next trick: figure out how to mount a 2.5 inch boring bar on a turret with only a 1.25 ledge on it. Im trying to talk the owner into fabbing a holder in house.

Also we found out the morse taper in the tail stock is all chewed up so we're going to look for a morse reamer to correct the tailstock.

This job is certainly tightening up my machinist chops. Im already looking forward to tig work where my tolerance is like +/- .030 lmaoo

Success! Flipped it around and started a couple inches with a stubby 3/4, then I got an extremely stout 1 3/4 to redrill the hole nice and straight. Once the first couple inches were started it was rigid enough to follow its own hole all the way back through.

Even worse, It's actually two parts the owner insists on doing together and parting later. Could have done two 5 inch parts but noooo, that might have been easy. Lol

Further, the center of stock on the backside is floating in air. It's a 9/16 hole that's a bit off-center, but not enough to put the true center in the wall.

I'll try flipping around the part and see if I have a boring bar small enough to true most of the hole from that end. Im confident in my original center, it just seems to have wandered a bit through the material.

Im not entirely sure that tailstock is aligned just right but the owner is riding me to produce since my first two weeks have been mostly restoring the equipment they have and addressing what can be fixed. The Szim lathe really only needed some minor leveling and some oil, but I put a lockout on the other lathe after I opened up the head and found a bunch of chipped gears. The szim has also definitely been crashed at least once but everything seems to be rigid and true as far as I can tell.

Not ultra critical at this stage. It's basically a bushing for a bushing. It gets turned down on the OD for an interference fit on an existing bored hole and the ID just needs to be blasted out to a little over 4 and a half, then it gets welded in place and final line bored later.

I've never even heard of a gun drill but hot damn if that doesn't sound like the perfect pilot hole tool. Honestly I'm trying my best to make due with what the shop already has while recommending tools I've used before in machining. Last place I was at we had this wicked set of spade drills from like half inch all the way up to 3 inches and change that would tear through metal like butter.

At this shop, their last machinist quit 7 or 8 years ago and mostly I get blank looks when I ask if they have x or y tool/insert/tool holder. The owner is willing to buy new tooling but I've never been in the position to even select tooling for operations before, let alone outfit a shop for every process they want to run.

Iirc the closest modern day relative is some form of sea slug. How you go from spore to slug has got to be a wild journey

Happened all the time. It just depends on the environment. Check out basically anything on the "Tully monster" if you want to know more.

Tully monsters are actually even older than OPs fossil and we have no idea where they came from or where they went, from an evolutionary perspective.