The Random Thread

[White Wolf Guardian]

Loopholes usually mean grey areas in laws and probably the "grandfather" and "antique" clause.

Ironically for having the ability to forge weapons, I work in a machine shop where we have both the potential and the ability to make such weapons in mere minutes.

[kivabunny]

at an auction in my town i saw this awesome spring loaded spiked mace

[Aoren Deringer]

Wolgon, you have access to a machine shop!? I'm jealous. I have to borrow tools whenever I need to get work done -_-

[White Wolf Guardian]

I have the powerrrrrrrr! *Breaks a 1.500 mitz drill*

*Hears "I can't let you do that Star Fox" in the back of his mind afterwards*

[Aoren Deringer]

Nice. I am truly jealous though o.o
 
You said you work in it which I assume means employment involving it so I must ask: what do you do?

[White Wolf Guardian]

I'm definitely not the programmer at our CNC's nor am I the guy capable of knowing a whole lot about RPM and proper cutting speeds. However I do know quite a bit now about stainless steel, steel (heat treated, cold rolled, hot rolled, etc),  and 6061 aluminum. We also toy around with some nastier materials like magnesium, titanium, and other random stuff like plastics of all kinds, bronze, brass, and rarely some silver.

I know quite a bit about how you should generally run mild and tool steel or aluminum... however stainless, 17-4 stainless, H13 steel, and B16 are very nasty.

[Aoren Deringer]

Well you certainly showed off some expertise but that didn't answer my question .-.

[White Wolf Guardian]

I know that's because I don't do anything "amazing". I just handle machine running, setting up some machines, test running the programs, syncing the offsets for the program start, some lathe work, and bridgeport tapping/drilling. Then more blue collar tasks like making sure the machines are clean before we swap over to a different type of material as we recycle the cut off material, I refill coolant and oil in all the machines, I make sure the floor isn't a total mess so we can walk through our aisles without stepping on metal chips everywhere. I also run the large bandsaw we have in the far corner, I also manage the office network and I fix the computers when something goes wrong with the CNC programs or someone gets another industrial computer virus from a fake pdf file here and there. And ultimately I run our company website and manage whatever content they want put up, though due to my limited web experience I can only give them basic html dreamweaver work and/or php scripts. For all of that I only get $11 an hour, which the only reason I don't complain is because I don't pay for gas at all to get to work as I ride with my boss and his son since we have been long-term neighbors.

[Aoren Deringer]

Nice! Sounds like a decent gig to me

[Alice The Necrofox]

*starts flinging chinchillas everywhere*

[Kaya]

o-o by gosh?! i love your wonderful avi

[Alice The Necrofox]

whos? mine?

[Kaya]

haha yes yours. wayyyyyyyy better than mine.

[Alice The Necrofox]

^^ its from warhammer 40k

[White Wolf Guardian]

My avatar was mined from the greatest of quesadilla factories in North Dakota!