What's your Daytime Job.
#14
Senior Member
MASTER BUILDER
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Big Lake, Minnesota
Posts: 162
Originally Posted by Tod74
We bend a lot of 5" 304 SS for them. We make stuff all the way from 3/8 up to 7" but most of our large diameter cat stuff(large meaning over 3") is 5" 304 bent on a 5" radius
Cat has a competitive teardown project going on right now and I have had the chance to meet a lot of different suppliers over the past couple of weeks and more to come throughout the month of July and August.
Sadly enough the diesel emissions are going to hit everyone pretty hard over the next couple of years as Tier 4i emissions are going to be implemented on the machines, but for my job there is some security there because of all the redesigns that are being done to the machines and the manuals that need to be done for them.
#15
Senior Member
RACING JUNKIE
Join Date: Sep 2007
Posts: 4,137
Originally Posted by tcarda
Originally Posted by Tod74
We bend a lot of 5" 304 SS for them. We make stuff all the way from 3/8 up to 7" but most of our large diameter cat stuff(large meaning over 3") is 5" 304 bent on a 5" radius
Cat has a competitive teardown project going on right now and I have had the chance to meet a lot of different suppliers over the past couple of weeks and more to come throughout the month of July and August.
Sadly enough the diesel emissions are going to hit everyone pretty hard over the next couple of years as Tier 4i emissions are going to be implemented on the machines, but for my job there is some security there because of all the redesigns that are being done to the machines and the manuals that need to be done for them.
#16
Daytime job
Currently I am a calibration technician at Kennedy Space Center. We have seven more launches and then who knows what I'll be. Guess only time will tell. Don't think there will be much around here. They plan to rely on the Russians for support of the space station. Wait til the Russians have a monopoly on access to space and see what they charge for sending personnel and equipment up there. There, I feel better. :P
#19
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DYNO OPERATOR
Join Date: Feb 2009
Posts: 510
Machinist for a comtractor at NASA in Houston.
We built this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2c2jN0k0k68
We built this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2c2jN0k0k68
#20
Senior Member
EXPERT BUILDER
Join Date: Jan 2005
Posts: 336
FUNNY TALKING ABOUT CAT, I WORK FOR WAUKESHA ENGINE,(COMPETITOR) CNC MACHINIST FOR 10 OR SO YEARS, I RUN A WFL MILLTURN.ITS A STATE OF THE ART LATHE, IT CAN MILL THE DIAMETERS OF THE THROWS ON THE CRANKS. IT ONLY RUNS CRANKSHAFTS.
FUNNY ABOUT HOW OUR CHILDREN WILL TURN INTO SLAVES,SAD BUT TRUE!!!
FUNNY ABOUT HOW OUR CHILDREN WILL TURN INTO SLAVES,SAD BUT TRUE!!!