BIG Pressing News
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Rick York wrote:
skimped
In the drayage business (rigging) that is what is refered to as "greasing the skids". When I worked as a summer gandy (assistant) to big-boy haulers (drivers with licenses) consigned to removing Bullard Machine Presses from a big-name corporation assembly factory I was told this story about how that term came into being. To make a big story smaller then, short of cutting a big hole in the roof and using a big crane to pull the press out and swing it over onto a flatbed, the riggers sent a gandy down to the drug store to buy a case of Irish Spring and bring it back to the job site. Putting the rest of the gandies to work then, each with a bar of soap under a foot, the floor of the factory was smudged up with a quarter inch of bar soap. When a path of proper length was achieved, through the factory, between the other presses/big machines, the moved press was jockyed onto the slick layer and pushed all the way out of the factory. Then lifted onto the flatbed. Fun facts! ooo ... watch your head ...
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Meanwhile you can't delete the post (because replied from members), but you can edit it and remove the link ;) On the other hand, I see no problem with that link...
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Rick York wrote:
skimped
In the drayage business (rigging) that is what is refered to as "greasing the skids". When I worked as a summer gandy (assistant) to big-boy haulers (drivers with licenses) consigned to removing Bullard Machine Presses from a big-name corporation assembly factory I was told this story about how that term came into being. To make a big story smaller then, short of cutting a big hole in the roof and using a big crane to pull the press out and swing it over onto a flatbed, the riggers sent a gandy down to the drug store to buy a case of Irish Spring and bring it back to the job site. Putting the rest of the gandies to work then, each with a bar of soap under a foot, the floor of the factory was smudged up with a quarter inch of bar soap. When a path of proper length was achieved, through the factory, between the other presses/big machines, the moved press was jockyed onto the slick layer and pushed all the way out of the factory. Then lifted onto the flatbed. Fun facts! ooo ... watch your head ...
cool story. I once worked for a trucking company loading station. Good pay for a college kid. Big dock, too. Well one day a reckless fork life operator leaked about 400 gallons of shampoo across the dock. what mess when it spread. everything went spinning every which way, dolly's forklifts, guys. took about 2 shifts of 20 guys to clean.
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It's not the link trying to steal info, it's the GDPR management screen that insists you untick everyone you don't want them to sell your info to - if you just pressed "accept" to get rid of it once it will sell it to every on on a long list because you have said they can. They have to show the GDPR dialog, but they don't have to have just an "accept" and a "reject" button. That annoys me because they deliberately make it hard to prevent them doing it. So I just walk away and don't go back.
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This reminds of story that I still find fascinating. Back when I was in college and studying Strengths of Materials one day the professor took us down the basement lab. The school had been hired as an expert witness in a court case. What happened was a grain elevator had been built and it collapsed resulting several deaths and the design company was sued. They contended that the design was sound and the construction was faulty. The school was given the job of constructing a section of the elevator wall according to specification and verify its capacity. As I recall, the specification called for two quarter-inch beads of glue and a nail every six inches on every board which were 2x4s with their wide side laid horizontally. They built about a 10x10 foot (I think it was) section of the wall and put it in the school's press to test it. This press was not nearly has massive as the USAF's in that article but it was pretty hefty. After testing, they found the specifications for the wall to be more than adequate. The wall was supported in the test by an I-beam whose members were one-inch thick steel and what happened was the I-beam began to deflect before the wall did so that verified that the wall was as stout as intended. The court found that the design was sound and the builders skimped by using one bead of glue and half the number of nails so the construction company was at fault.
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As a hobbyist woodworker I appreciate the power of glue when assembling projects and tend to over use the number of screws and inflate the size in diameter and length Nails have higher sheer strength but not an issue for what I build with the exception of one Work Bench legs I built. Built one with 14 Ga and 16 Ga nails once I disagreed but client said he did not care wanted it rock solid so 4 by 4 legs and nails it was Nails and Glue are so cheep why skimp ? Thanks for the story
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i see no problems with link or site. plane historia is a pretty plane jane site (pun intended). lots of new info for me.
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Years ago I worked for a company that among other thing made paper milk cartons. We would take all scrap to a press that would press the paper into a bundle so it could be recycled. The lip of the press was at floor level and the moving part of the press came down into the floor. We had a guy working there that was a real moron, and one day me and another guy were taking some cardboard to the press and when we started the machine we heard a groan from the pit and here's this guy down there. He had fallen in!
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While living in Oregon I got to visit Boise Cascade plant where they made plywood I ask the guide what would happen if someone fell in the press he replied "The plywood would be red and ruined" OSHA wanted a fence around the press that did not happen it slowed the loading process Working at Diebold Lock & Safe the crane operator high up 100 ft or more dropped a Bank Vault door because the load was not rigged up secure by the loader
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OG I did not have that experience I did click the CLOSE when they asked about push notifications and no other pop up questions after that I am using Firefox with a lot of blocking enabled in the settings Thanks for explaining
Probably because you're in the USA. Explicitly asking for permission to collect and sell your data is mandatory in the EU.
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I'm not reading it. The GDPR banner for that site is one of those "you have to disable each vender individually - here is a huge list, have fun." ones and life is too short to spend 10 minutes clicking on "No, I don't want you get my info to do with as you will" checkboxes.
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Same. When I really want to see such a website I open up the console and disable all checkboxes programmatically :D In this particular case you could use:
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It's not the link trying to steal info, it's the GDPR management screen that insists you untick everyone you don't want them to sell your info to - if you just pressed "accept" to get rid of it once it will sell it to every on on a long list because you have said they can. They have to show the GDPR dialog, but they don't have to have just an "accept" and a "reject" button. That annoys me because they deliberately make it hard to prevent them doing it. So I just walk away and don't go back.
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I've never seen (or in reality, noticed) such a long cookie-mamagement list, but had a go at deleting a few - then gave up. Allowed what was left, removed the whole set of cookies from FF and could then read at my leisure. Probably won't be going back.
