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  • fixbear

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    October 14, 2020 at 12:56 pm

    I actually had to do this in the early 70’s and had forgotten about it.

  • nafets47

    Member
    October 14, 2020 at 1:09 pm

    Good data to have @fixbear

  • olivero

    Member
    October 14, 2020 at 3:11 pm

    Haha, lots of good tricks from you I’m sure.

  • fixbear

    Member
    October 14, 2020 at 7:22 pm

    The problem is I can’t talk about many of them.

    • olivero

      Member
      October 15, 2020 at 9:33 am

      Why? Secret type of work?

  • fixbear

    Member
    October 15, 2020 at 11:15 am

    While in high school I worked part time for both a tool maker machine shop and a Army depot. The thresher loss happened while I was there. Before the public knew about it 6 FBI agents, 8 marine MP’s and 2 deuce and half’s came to the shop (small on a dead end street) and seized everything we were working on. Plans, drawings, and materials. Isolated us, fingerprinted, and interviewed us. That one was partially declassified last week. Silver brazed stainless doesn’t cut it at pressures of deep dives. I was just Satellite hard facing valves at the time. They pulled everyone’s welding samples across the nation for retesting and analysis. Two were allowed to keep there’s, mine and my brother’s. You would not believe the overtime from outsiders jobs we had to do for about 8 mouths.

    I also did Mill-write work that I had to have 2 escorts watching me at all times. Ton’s of paperwork just to lift a motor and reset it. You had to document and prove everything you did. One special pump (first of 3) I had 15 people stumbling over each other in a small pump room to see how I did it. I even had to leave my 3/4″ torque wrench in there tool room and sign it out for every tightening. They tested it’s accuracy every time. Then they wanted to buy my fixtures I had to build to do it. But no way, I hadn’t patented them. Any way, they had details that were not obvious in them. We were looking at 2 tenths run out on the couplings. Not easy to achieve. I spent 4 days just going back and forth with there engineers and my shop to get it right. Then had to make a dummy to prove it’s accuracy in the parking lot on a pair of centers. Nuclear engineers are a bit weird.

    Got burned on one I made in the sixties. The tool I designed then is still in the Kent-Moore catalog today. Made all of $50 on that.

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