15/07/2025
Apologies for my lax posting folks, been super busy at work recently with people retiring and going on holiday so when I get in I'm absolutely knackered, things have been going okay for me but the guy who ran my section retired, I took over from a guy with 41 years experience.... and 41 years of bad habits.... with 2 months experience.
I get better at programming machine code every day, I have now set up my first succesful solo job.. (admittedly the program already existed I just tweaked s**t lol but still it's a start) and while the repair guy totally stripped one of the turning machines I use and took the motor and belt I went in with welding gloves, a magnet and some cloths, cleaned it to base, years of swarf and old jobs inside its broken conveyor so it's been a nightmare to run, required pumping out regularly, absolutely stunk, couldn't tap (make theads for bolts to go into) for s**t, now it runs fine... simply put, the old metal that fell inside it goes rusty and the coolant that runs through it picks up the rust effecting the performance massively.
I am also being trained on the CMM which is a big fancy measuring machine, I will be one of 2 people to be able to use it by the end of the week so quite happy about that, already got it mostly down and it means I will be in charge of using it when he goes off next week... so yeah I now have an entire section with two turning machines that has become mine and an absolute s**tload of responsibility... I've been cleaning and sorting the place to a level I am happy with, it is already the cleanest section but I still have more to do, I'm almost confident enough to write programs from scratch and already an incredibly competent CNC operator which with 4 months experience and little int the way of training I'm actually quite proud of.
Going forward I am going to set aside saturday evenings as a time to work on my various pages and groups as recently I let A LOT slip so stay tuned for more bri'ish memes, have a beautiful week and know that at least I'm proud of you ... well ... most of you.😅