A most Un-cooperative SOB tonight !

When I was a kid a running mate of mine and I both had Cushman Eagle scooters. Mine would usually start in 3 to 5 kicks.....his would take 10 or more. One day his started on the first kick and I asked what did he do to get this spectacular result. His answer was "I pre-cussed it"....I've been a believer ever since.
 
dirty tools said:
I remember days like that
LOL
you will get it just a few choices words and it will be out
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I agree. I've been in your situation a few times, and flowery vocabulary has always saved the day. Some times your best tirades have to be repeated several times to get results, and don't forget MOTHER is only half a word.

On a more serious note the fact that you're working on extruders is interesting. The company I worked for extruded their own packaging film and sheets for years. At the time I worked there they had about 2 dozen production facilities with over 50 packaging lines extruding film. Most of ours was laminate film of 3 or more layers to protect food products from oxygen, light, and bacteria growth.

I was not part of the "Plastics" department, but many of the production lines I helped design and install were coupled to extrusion systems. The earliest were steam heated because most plants had their own powerhouses that generated steam to power generators for electrical power heat water, and provide live steam for production lines. The powerhouses also had huge ammonia pumps for refrigeration and freezers. As time went on there was less need for live steam so most of the extrusion systems were heated by electricity.

That's all in the past now since it's cheaper to buy film by the roll and sheet goods by the ton. We went from a company that employed nearly 200 people, and had over a hundred machines dedicated to film and sheet extrusion to a company that is now outsourcing 95% of that capability. The once thriving "Plastics" department is now down to 1 person who officially retired over 5 years ago, and is now doing a minimal amount on a contract basis.
 
I don't care to remember the number of times that a 15 minute job has turned into an 8 hour nightmare, with a plant manager screaming in my ear that he has to get the plant back up.

Somehow, his yelling at me never seemed to help me, but I guess it made him feel a lot better, because is seemed he did it a lot to everyone. I was so glad to say goodbye to that job.

My last company I was a part owner. We had developed a chroming process that used Physical Vapor Deposition (Vacuum Plating). The machines would vacuum down to 0.0000025 Torr. It didn't take much for things to go wrong with that low of vacuum or should I say pressure. A couple of molecules of air could through the whole process off. We used Helium to check for leaks. The sensors could read a single molecule of Helium.

Luckily, we only were in the High Vacuum range, things really got dicey in the Ultra High Vacuum systems.
 
if the hole through is well centered then I've had a lot of success step drilling up to the minor thread diameter. Then you can often either pick the bits of leftover thread out or push a tap through, which will often unscrew the thread remants in the process.
 
jcp said:
His answer was "I pre-cussed it"...
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My old boss never got this part of the job.....

He had an old McCullough chain saw. Big saw from the 70's. He would yank on the damn thing for a good while. His temper would finally show up, and he would blow a gasket at the same time he threw that saw across the yard.

After a minute, he would go over and yank the cord. It always fired up.....
 
I lived in Lake Tahoe for five years in the 70’s.
Me and my buddies were always broke.
We would stand in line beginning at 2:30AM at the US Forest Service office to get the few fire wood permits.
As a team we would cut the trees in the forest, load several trucks, help each other unload at each other’s homes etc.
One of us would rent a splitter for the weekend and we would split 20-30 cords with lots of beer and lots of help.
Ok, I’m back now.
One of the guys had a big old Mac Cullough chain saw.
He would pull that string for half an hour, once it started he would be off to the races.
Thinking back, we used outboard motor oil at 6,000 to 9,000 foot elevation.
Too rich!!
My Homelite always fired right up.
Sorry, I went down memory lane there with the mention of a McCullogh saw
 
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