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Anyone ever watch these "machinists"?

We may be all rich now,but back in the day Queensland was a Labor socialist hell of poor farmers ,low paid workers and endless mindless regulation and union s ......every crop a farmer grew had to be sold to a government body .....egg board,potato board,onion board ,butter board........the Labor socialists were in power for over 40 years,and still fighting the battles of the 1890s.shearers strikes.
 
We all laugh at those vids. I've adopted a term for it and it has stuck with my kids and a couple friends.
When there's a project that isn't too critical but has to be done quickly the term used is 'Go Paki on it" Out comes things like the hatchet, wire, duct tape, cutting torch and crazy glue.

*Although I have seen some of my immediately hidden from view machning go to shit and suddenly looking like theirs....
 
Too many people in India to have jobs for all and the thin line of money gives little to each. little money to fix trucks with that the work of these machinists. I think these machinists are very talented cosidering what they have to work with and what the economy can afford.
Parts of California are turning into an India-like economy..perhaps worse than India.

California.
 
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Too many people in India to have jobs for all and the thin line of money gives little to each. little money to fix trucks with that the work of these machinists. I think these machinists are very talented cosidering what they have to work with and what the economy can afford.
Parts of California are turning into an India-like economy..perhaps worse than India.

California.
They have talent but HORRIBLE work habits. There is no excuse, in the world, for their work habits. This renders them hacks in my book.
They are dirty people. Sorry if this truth ruffles feathers but these people have no use for cleanliness.
 
Smacking the threaded end of the threaded shaft on the floor was a definite hack method, welding a part set in a lathe another.
Guess they did not go to a trade school or work under a master.
But if they can get a broken truck back in operation at 5 bucks for parts and labor that is something.
 
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Smacking the threaded end of the threaded shaft on the floor was a definite hack method, welding a part set in a lathe another.
Guess they did not go to a trade school or work under a master.
I weld in my manual lathe...................it's not as taboo as you may think.............cover the ways and ground right to the part, not the machine.

But yes, they are hacks. I've seen craftsmen with very little in machinery and tools do high precision and high quality work. They still know work can be done with pride, cleanliness, and respect for their trade.
 
What strikes me the most is not the quality of the repairs as such.

I watch as they continually throw a just-completed or just-repaired part into the dirt, and then pick it up later, clean it off, do something else to it, and then throw it in the dirt to then have to do the cleaning all over again. Commonly, at some point they will put the part onto a big piece of cardboard to keep it sort of clean...why not do this at every step?

Or when making a bunch of parts, they complete an op and throw the part on the floor until there is a big pile of parts-at that time, someone comes along and picks up each individual part and puts them all in some sort of carrying device, to move them to the next op. Why not put the carrying device on the floor and throw the parts into it as they complete the op?

I watched one last night where a guy was turning, threading, and parting a round that started out somewhat banana-shaped. He got it turned to cylindrical, threaded the end of it for about 3 or 4 inches, then went to part off about 12" from the stock.
He parted it most of the way through, then removed the stock from the lathe and proceeded to break the completed piece of work off by banging the freshly-threaded end against what looked like a concrete floor.
I do not think a DMG Mori or a Kern Micro with a robotic arm s hiding some backroom making the parts. There is just some stuff you cannot automate. And in some cases, maybe one should not.
 
Re:( (throw a just-completed or just-repaired part into the dirt)

Ouick dip parts in a water bucket clean ..and is there if you need to wash your hands.

Oil spills may be common working on truck stuff, with a dirt floor it is easy to just move the whole shop to the next dry place. Plus an old flywheel makes a decent workbench..and when you finally need that flywheel it is right there.
 
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How about the same squirt bottle of water used to cool parts AND as a "lubricant".
Sorry but I just can't see more than 10% of these repaired parts surviving another full day. THEN what about the parts they take with them when they inevitably fail?
Should we start a desperate thread for these videos and invite them to participate 😁?
The funniest thing about most YouTube videos is reading the comments IMO.
 
I've met way too many old timers who should know better than to say all of the young crowd is mechanically inexperienced. seen plenty of older guys still cross thread bolts, tighten bolts that are too long for the application into blind holes and wonder why the head shears off when the bolt bottoms out, use a cutoff wheel incorrectly, tighten lug nuts to the force of god with a breaker bar, etc. some young guys get super into all things mechanical, look at all the young guys tuning engines with their laptops vs all the old timers who are afraid to move on from carbs.

Hell I have a 48 year old at work, graduated from an automotive school, and he can't even tell when his drill is dull. I have to yell across the shop that his drill sounds like a WW2 fighter plane and he will look dumbfounded and go "it's making chips". it's never making chips, its making dust.
 
How about the same squirt bottle of water used to cool parts AND as a "lubricant".
Sorry but I just can't see more than 10% of these repaired parts surviving another full day. THEN what about the parts they take with them when they inevitably fail?
There are likely hundreds of such shops. Somehow, I don't think that the truck owners would continue using that repair shop if their work failed so soon - there is a better shop just down the road. Darwin rules!
 








 
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