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| fourfathom:
--- Quote from: Alex Eisenhut on October 12, 2022, 07:28:29 pm ---But still what a boring job "entry-level heat-shrink tube technician" must have been. --- End quote --- Reminds me of my first real job, where one of the tasks was to put tiny O-rings on plastic air-pump valves. These things were only a few mm's in dia, and everything was drenched in glycerin. I had my face pressed against the magnifier for hours. Eventually I told my boss I was so bored I was going to quit unless he could find something else for me to do. I ended up being shop handyman, driving the boss's Trans-Am around town picking up parts, helping the machinist build fixtures, etc, etc. Way more fun! |
| Ed.Kloonk:
--- Quote from: VK3DRB on October 13, 2022, 02:01:51 am ---Don't know why you infer this boring job is unique. There are many people in the electronics industry with repetitive, boring jobs. There is nothing more boring than staring at solder joints all day, everyday, by quality assurance or process people. Much of the electronics in your home will have parts made by people bored out of their brains. --- End quote --- I dunno, man. Going by the quality of some of the solder these days, I suspect inspecting boards would be ever-bewildering if not hysterical. |
| VK3DRB:
--- Quote from: Ed.Kloonk on October 13, 2022, 03:40:04 am --- --- Quote from: VK3DRB on October 13, 2022, 02:01:51 am ---Don't know why you infer this boring job is unique. There are many people in the electronics industry with repetitive, boring jobs. There is nothing more boring than staring at solder joints all day, everyday, by quality assurance or process people. Much of the electronics in your home will have parts made by people bored out of their brains. --- End quote --- I dunno, man. Going by the quality of some of the solder these days, I suspect inspecting boards would be ever-bewildering if not hysterical. --- End quote --- I did it for a week. Super boring, mostly large pin-through hole boards for the PC XT. But not as boring as when I was at high school when I had a part time job in the Children's Shoes Department at the Myer city department store in Melbourne. I remember I once had to take hundreds of pairs of gumboots out of tight plastic bags (the bags stuck to the gumboots though suction and stiction) and continuously rearrange them on shelves in size order, on a Friday night after school. The boredom was so intense my head was pounding and I had tears in my eyes. I hated that bloody boring job, but the money was OK. Occasionally the boredom was broken when I had to bring trolley loads of shoes through the Myer Miss Melbourne fashion section which was full of pretty young fashion conscious women. But being so self conscious and socially inept, I always blushed heavily just walking through there. This embarrassment was amplified by an order of magnitude once when a pretty young lady said out aloud to her friend, "Hey, look at his face!" :palm:. Red as a beetroot. |
| coppercone2:
thats pretty obvious to me, its incase you put too big a screw in there, or someone puts a washer under the screw that is the wrong size and it drifts to the side. how many times do you lose washers and end up with something just a tad too big that you are sure will sit correctly? I think that's a good design decision. Alot of better boards I see use washers near the screw hole, perhaps there was one originally there and it got taken out with a design change or something. And those kits always get mixed up, with a screw it wont fit, with a washer you need to be on top of your assembly game to catch it. Some board designers are really anal about tolerances. I recently dropped a washer somewhere for a card and then I got a almost identical replacement for it, but when I did the 'can it short something to chassis test", I ended up on the floor for 20 minutes looking for the original washer. Pretty infuriating but it definitely could have caused a problem. |
| eti:
As a teenager, one of my jobs on a small production line, was where I'd have a bottle of oil, a 3-pronged expanding plier type tool (spiked prongs) and I'd sit for hours dipping pre-cut rubber sleeves in the oil, sliding them onto the tool, expanding the tool so it stretched the sleeving and sliding wires in. Funnnn. ;D |
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