But...but...but...PENNIES NEED TO BE SAVED! Speed up the feed-rate!
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And don't replace the broken tool bit!But...but...but...PENNIES NEED TO BE SAVED! Speed up the feed-rate!
Manual skills are fading!New young guy " what is this aluminum or armour?" Me did you use a new drill bit ? No it's just aluminum. Let's see your bit. Gave him new bit while I looked at his " new bit". As I hear him start and I examine his drill bits. I hear big zzzzzz BANG. He started the drill full speed leaned hard it and drilled the chuck into the sheet prepped for patch repair. He looks like he's seen a ghost or zombies. I can't believe you just trashed that piece, and now have make another.
This was often crisis managed service inspection, I really couldn't understand where they found , or where the bar was was set on new hire qualifications.
Oil cooled alternator/generator is a big truck thing, from "back in the day". I only ever saw them in catalogs...but when it was slow at the parts store, I'd read the catalogs. All sorts of trivia, stuck in my memory....That sounds like loads of fun! First I have heard of an oil cooled alternator. I have put a Porsche SUV alternator on one of their Cayanne V8 SUVs that was coolant cooled though. Had coolant lines with banjo bolts going to it and the housing was pretty much entirely sealed. I do not recomeend that job at all.
Oil cooled alternator/generator is a big truck thing, from "back in the day". I only ever saw them in catalogs...but when it was slow at the parts store, I'd read the catalogs. All sorts of trivia, stuck in my memory....
Don't know about in New York, but down here, a proper parts store had a bunch of Dorman cabinets and drawers, resplendent in orange and black with the little pictures of the items in each drawer on the front, under the counter. And a real parts store had a certain aroma to it: old metal, cardboard, oil and cigarette smoke.I always remember that back then when you walked into a 'real' parts store
that there was always the 6'-8' of conjoined paper catalogs that lined the main counter.
I can still see Mr. Hubble thumbing through the catalogs & writing down part
numbers before calling his warehouses and finding out if the parts I needed
were in stock, available to order...or on backorder. :-(
And of course, I also seem to remember the (then) obligatory upside-down
used piston available for customer use as an ashtray. And the sign that
discussed the pros & cons of buying new oats vs the previously enjoyed ones...
Great memories, all. Haven't thought about this in years. Good stuff, thanks!
Don't know about in New York, but down here, a proper parts store had a bunch of Dorman cabinets and drawers, resplendent in orange and black with the little pictures of the items in each drawer on the front, under the counter. And a real parts store had a certain aroma to it: old metal, cardboard, oil and cigarette smoke.
This was back when Dorman made all their items in the US, and some of them may have even come from the OEM suppliers.