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Title: MDBS At Work
Post by: MillionDollar Belt Sander on 26 Aug 2008, 17:19
Here I am running one of the machines at work:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZYlcdvU1XU

This is a bending machine that can be reconfigured to bend flat sheets and bars into any shape.  I'm talking massive power here directed through those punches.

My job is to set up those punches and the dies on the bottom and program the length of the section to be bent and the degrees of angle I want.    Then I run the parts.   Some parts get bent once... one part I did gets bent 30 times.

This piece I'm making gets used in a computer case, it's a side-rail with vent slats cut in it for a high-end data-collection box for secure point-of-sale networks.
Title: Re: MDBS At Work
Post by: ForteBass on 26 Aug 2008, 17:22
And you are?
Come on, baby. You gotta sell me on this one. Make me care.
Title: Re: MDBS At Work
Post by: ViolentDove on 26 Aug 2008, 17:30
You might have better luck with responses if you make this a general thread about power tools or DIY or something like that, and not about yourself at work!

I myself own a drill. It's pretty nice. My ladyfriend owns more power tools than me, including a fairly large circular saw. This sometimes elicits humorous comments regarding who wears the pants in this goddamn relationship.
Title: Re: MDBS At Work
Post by: est on 26 Aug 2008, 17:31
I am pretty sure that I can not be made to care.  It is ok though!  The world is a funny place, perhaps there are people here who will enjoy the clip.
Title: Re: MDBS At Work
Post by: WriterofAllWrongs on 26 Aug 2008, 17:38
Looks like a largely accidental Futurama reference.

Futura?  Bender?  Coincidence?  I think so.
Title: Re: MDBS At Work
Post by: Blue Kitty on 26 Aug 2008, 17:41
I am sorry my friend, but with the name Lord of Fail it does not inspire confidence in your videos.
Title: Re: MDBS At Work
Post by: MillionDollar Belt Sander on 26 Aug 2008, 18:10
Fine, you can all kiss my shiny metal ass.    :x    :lol: :lol:
Title: Re: MDBS At Work
Post by: MillionDollar Belt Sander on 26 Aug 2008, 18:11
Looks like a largely accidental Futurama reference.

Futura?  Bender?  Coincidence?  I think so.


You got it.  :D  Have a bent metal thingy.  *KLONG*    :-o  Sorry. 
Title: Re: MDBS At Work
Post by: yelley on 26 Aug 2008, 21:01
HAY GUISE THIS IS WHAT I LOOK LIKE AT WORK EXCEPT I AM WHITE/FILIPINO.
(http://www.howdoesitfeel.com/negative_calorie_foods/lettuce.jpg)(http://www.hml.noaa.gov/images/opps/pipetting.jpg)(http://www.howdoesitfeel.com/negative_calorie_foods/lettuce.jpg)
I PIPETTE THINGS AND I AM SURROUNDED BY LETTUCE.

THIS THREAD IS AWESOME.
Title: Re: MDBS At Work
Post by: ViolentDove on 26 Aug 2008, 21:05
Have you ever noticed how anytime a news crew/photographer comes into a lab, they always take shots of people pipetting something?
Title: Re: MDBS At Work
Post by: David_Dovey on 26 Aug 2008, 21:06
(http://gustavus.edu/academics/philosophy/image/LOCKE.gif)
Title: Re: MDBS At Work
Post by: est on 26 Aug 2008, 21:43
That is because pipetting is way radical.
Title: Re: MDBS At Work
Post by: Spluff on 27 Aug 2008, 00:07
I was under the impression that pipetting is all that happens in the field of science.
Title: Re: MDBS At Work
Post by: CardinalFang on 27 Aug 2008, 03:54
Pipettes? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TuIr2lcS_A&feature=user)
Title: Re: MDBS At Work
Post by: jhocking on 27 Aug 2008, 05:36
I was under the impression that pipetting is all that happens in the field of science.

In the biological sciences anyway. "Biology" is latin for "pipette."
Title: Re: MDBS At Work
Post by: ViolentDove on 27 Aug 2008, 17:27
Hey fuck you.

Sometimes we use measuring cylinders instead of pipettes, I'll have you know.

(also I had this idea to make pipette holsters out of faux-leather and sell them to scientists, complete with pipette-tip bullet bandoliers. I'm going to make millions)
Title: Re: MDBS At Work
Post by: yelley on 27 Aug 2008, 18:18
i don't know... can your b
Title: Re: MDBS At Work
Post by: jhocking on 27 Aug 2008, 18:45
When called away in the middle of typing a post, you don't have to hit the Post button.
Title: Re: MDBS At Work
Post by: yelley on 27 Aug 2008, 18:54
thanks joe. i was posting on my phone, then i got a call... i didn't think it would post for me! i don't even remember what it was that i was going to say..... guess it couldn't have been anything good.
Title: Re: MDBS At Work
Post by: jhocking on 27 Aug 2008, 21:31
Wait, so you really were called away in the middle of typing? huh, I was kidding.
Title: Re: MDBS At Work
Post by: yelley on 27 Aug 2008, 21:53
see the little mobile phone at the top left of my post? that means it is from my phone. my 5 year old sister called me to tell me the plot of iCarly and to tell me she wants to make webmovies. *sigh*
Title: Re: MDBS At Work
Post by: Inlander on 27 Aug 2008, 23:27
They become auteurs so fast these days.
Title: Re: MDBS At Work
Post by: pwhodges on 30 Aug 2008, 12:05
see the little mobile phone at the top left of my post?

No.
Title: Re: MDBS At Work
Post by: yelley on 30 Aug 2008, 13:41
oh. nevermind then.
Title: Re: MDBS At Work
Post by: pwhodges on 30 Aug 2008, 13:56
Now I do.  Maybe my mind is going...