They remind me of the little cubes from the alien spacecraft in Super 8. And dude, thanks for all the traffic your blog sends to mine. Every time I turn around someone is visiting me from here.
Yeah, I love when we get orders from the field for thousands of one particular part. And some of the things we do can be a pretty lengthy process. I've spent days on one order of hanging straps, first they have to have a hole punched in either end, then all of them rolled, then he ends broke on a 90. Fun.
I spent one summer working for Grumman Aircraft in Bethpage, LI, punching out parts on a 20 ton press. One guy in the shop spent all day on a little press punching out washers. One at a time: *punch* slide the stock forward *punch* slide *punch* slide while chain smoking Luckies. This was 1968 and he did it since WWII.
One cool thing. I punched out parts for the Lunar Module that was assembled about 200 feet behind me in the plant.
Fellow NASA EX! I spent some time in/around 1988, mainly to prove a point that they didn't need a 500,000K inventory system for tracking parts for the shuttle. I wrote it in a 4G, proved that about 80% of their critical inventory was fucked up, when I ran the verify script :) Yeah, took about a week, had a setup to force Serializing inventory, gave them a way to adjust inventory for various reasons and it worked at a cost of $0.00. That was about the time my carrier there took a major dumper...they still spent the $500,000.00+ for a new linux box and software - I helped install part of that, and it didn't do much more than what I wrote. I wonder why I don't trust the Government?
Timbo - I saw a LM in the Smithsonian Aerospace Museum the last time I was in DC. But I think that was a later one. You'd laugh if you saw the 1968 "clean room" that the LM was assembled in. A wood lattice with clear plastic covering it and a positive pressure vent system. I saw it every time I walked to the crapper. My BIL was one of the aerospace engineers who was hired for the LM project fresh out of college (another funny story how I first met him, but anyway he met my sister who was a secretary at Grumman's). He has a whole bunch of stories about the LM. It was first called the Lunar Excursion Module but they changed the name because it sounded like it was made for a frivolous purpose.
They remind me of the little cubes from the alien spacecraft in Super 8. And dude, thanks for all the traffic your blog sends to mine. Every time I turn around someone is visiting me from here.
ReplyDeleteThanks for stopping by as well. I'm glad you get some traffic :)
DeleteHa,"farking".
ReplyDeleteWere you watching Johnny Dangerously lately?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQylAGThK68
My eyes now suck.
ReplyDeleteWhat are those little things?
Hi Timbo, they are some little machined parts for one of my customers. I have no idea what they do.
DeleteYeah, I love when we get orders from the field for thousands of one particular part. And some of the things we do can be a pretty lengthy process. I've spent days on one order of hanging straps, first they have to have a hole punched in either end, then all of them rolled, then he ends broke on a 90. Fun.
ReplyDeleteI spent one summer working for Grumman Aircraft in Bethpage, LI, punching out parts on a 20 ton press. One guy in the shop spent all day on a little press punching out washers. One at a time: *punch* slide the stock forward *punch* slide *punch* slide while chain smoking Luckies. This was 1968 and he did it since WWII.
ReplyDeleteOne cool thing. I punched out parts for the Lunar Module that was assembled about 200 feet behind me in the plant.
Wow Sig, that's something to tell the grandkids!
ReplyDeleteVery cool. The moonshot was the greatest
event of my lifetime - and you got to be part of it!
Fellow NASA EX! I spent some time in/around 1988, mainly to prove a point that they didn't need a 500,000K inventory system for tracking parts for the shuttle. I wrote it in a 4G, proved that about 80% of their critical inventory was fucked up, when I ran the verify script :) Yeah, took about a week, had a setup to force Serializing inventory, gave them a way to adjust inventory for various reasons and it worked at a cost of $0.00. That was about the time my carrier there took a major dumper...they still spent the $500,000.00+ for a new linux box and software - I helped install part of that, and it didn't do much more than what I wrote. I wonder why I don't trust the Government?
ReplyDeleteTimbo - I saw a LM in the Smithsonian Aerospace Museum the last time I was in DC. But I think that was a later one. You'd laugh if you saw the 1968 "clean room" that the LM was assembled in. A wood lattice with clear plastic covering it and a positive pressure vent system. I saw it every time I walked to the crapper. My BIL was one of the aerospace engineers who was hired for the LM project fresh out of college (another funny story how I first met him, but anyway he met my sister who was a secretary at Grumman's). He has a whole bunch of stories about the LM. It was first called the Lunar Excursion Module but they changed the name because it sounded like it was made for a frivolous purpose.
ReplyDeleteHey Irish.... that is an L7 connection spacer for the Flux Capacitor..Sheesh everyone knows that...
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