Show what you do for a living...

[funhog]

I was at the dock yesterday saw what looks like a brand new coat of paint on the Spirit of Adventure. She looks Great. Congratulations and "rip some lips"!

[Lunker Larry]

Did almost 30 years in the Canadian Army in SIGINT (Signals Intelligence). Our trade was Communicator Research.  We intercepted and analyzed anything in the frequency range from DC to light. Got 6 tours at our isolated station CFS Alert which is 300 miles from the north pole. Also did an exchange posting with the USN at Naval Radio Receiver Facility Imperial Beach California from '77 to '79. Too bad the cold war ended. They were exciting times. After retirement from the military in 1998 I held a few unique contracts within the military as I held on to my Top Secret clearance. Finally finished working for the Canada Revenue Agency doing TRAs (Threat and Risk Analysis).
Now I fish Muskies and fix reels interspersed with a few cold beers. Life is grand.

[Lowprofile]

Don't have any on the job pics...

[0119]

Did almost 30 years in the Canadian Army in SIGINT (Signals Intelligence). Got 6 tours at our isolated station CFS Alert which is 300 miles from the north pole.
Too bad the cold war ended. They were exciting times.

Exciting times so true. I was USCG in Alaska at the end of the 70's early 80's.  Then home to a law enforcement career.  Did you every have any contact with the Canadian Indigenous Scouts? I imagine they are still patrolling to this day with Russia having an eye on artic oil/mineral rights.

[Cone]

Retired Firefighter. I was also an electrician. I love work. I could sit around and watch it all day!    Bob

[Lunker Larry]

Did almost 30 years in the Canadian Army in SIGINT (Signals Intelligence). Got 6 tours at our isolated station CFS Alert which is 300 miles from the north pole.
Too bad the cold war ended. They were exciting times.

Exciting times so true. I was USCG in Alaska at the end of the 70's early 80's.  Then home to a law enforcement career.  Did you every have any contact with the Canadian Indigenous Scouts? I imagine they are still patrolling to this day with Russia having an eye on artic oil/mineral rights.

Not on the Islands but a bit with the Rangers in Inuvik NWT. I was posted there for two years. Great grayling, Inconnu (I think they were called) trout and huge pike fishing.

[Alto Mare]

Retired Firefighter. I was also an electrician. I love work. I could sit around and watch it all day!    Bob

[Alto Mare]

Jonathan, I took a closer look at your work, I'm amazed.
I've been at it for over 40 years, I have never seen anything as you're showing... you're an artist!
If you could share some more info on that "backlit onyx island", your secret would be safe with me .
Thanks for sharing, your beautiful creations.

Sal

[xaf]

I spent 21 years in the USAF as an airborne special equipment operator.  Got to see the world, not much more I can say about that.  Then spent 23 years as a Certified Safety Professional working mainly for NASA contractors.  Have seen some pretty smart people do some pretty dumb things!  Now I help babysit my beautiful granddaughter (3 yr old), fish when I can and tinker around building fishing rods to use and working on my reels. No pics right now I'll see if I can find some to post.

[joel8080]

I grew up in Brooklyn NY and went to school there, I joined the Marine Corps my MOS was 7113 Parachute rigger, after I left the Corps I went to work for a major Corp in NY, I was sent to Asia for 2 years and ended up working there for 23 years. I moved to CA and lived there till 2000 I then moved Highland Beach Fla, in 2008 my wife and I moved to Panama and we  lived there for 6 years, 2 years ago we moved back to CA. We have a 28 ft Blackfin which we bought in FL and used it there a lot, we shipped it to Panama and I fished it there, Panama fishing is amazing and when we moved back to the CA we shipped it to CA, now my Son has it.
We have between us a Daughter in Ca, a Son in Ca, 2 Sons on Colombia, 1 Son in Hong Kong, 7 Grand kids and one more in the oven.

Joel8080

[Three se7ens]

I work at a "job shop" type machine shop.  The shop primarily serves big industry like paper mills, making parts that are obsolete, unavailable, or the lead time from the manufacturer is too long.  I can run and program any of the mazaks, including the 2 integrex's (lathe with 5 axis milling capability), run and program the waterjet, and do much of the welding when needed.  I also do most of the CAD work, including making drawings of customer samples for the shop to make new ones off of.  

The pictures attached are of a bearing adjuster on a paper machine.  This holds one end of a 25' long roll, and is adjustable to keep the paper centered as it passes around it.  The original part was a casting that was made in the 60's, they dont have any spare parts, and no blueprints, drawings, or even manufacturer data.  So I took the broken one, measured everything, redesigned it to be fabricated from plate and bar stock, and misc parts.  The green one is the sample they gave us, that was broken, and the blue is the final part, as we delivered it to the customer.  

[Three se7ens]

One more that I just thought was pretty crazy.  This is a threading die and wrench.  I believe it was a metric thread somewhere around 20" in diameter.  The die was machined from M2 HSS, then heat treated.  The wrench weighed over 40 lbs. 

[Bill B]

3x7...thats a monster wrench......wow  .....of the first support how much was original from the broken part.....thats some really cool work brother......Bill

[Three se7ens]

3x7...thats a monster wrench......wow  .....of the first support how much was original from the broken part.....thats some really cool work brother......Bill

Nothing in the bearing adjuster was reused.  Every last piece was new.  The "saddle" that holds the bearing housing was made a little easier because we already make the bearing housings that it holds.  So we already had  all the dimensions for the radius cut and locating pin in the "saddle".  Everything else I had to reverse engineer from the existing part.  All of the tolerances and clearances from one part to another had to be calculated and working into the final drawing for each of the many pieces of this part. 

[Alto Mare]

Very nice guys!

Adam, you build some interesting cool stuff.