Excellent video.

[bobabode]

I hear ya Dave. If only the cubicle hounds would just shut the phuck up and let the guy who knows what he's doing do his job. They could then go back to patting themselves on their backs and claim victory around the water cooler. It's a freakin' mindblower how mechanically inept most of 'em are.

I'm waiting for the day that the muckity mucks in Washington restart the WPA so I can take a job retraining hedge fund pissants and ex stockbrokers the fine art of digging foundations or laying roadbeds or even which end of a framing hammer to use. Captive apprentices would be soooo much fun! Yeah, I do have a sadistic streak, heh heh heh.

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by BlueStreak

Here's a video from Krones Contiroll. We have two of these machines.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3asIBA1C36k

Dave

Those are pretty cool machines Dave. German made?

[Rex E.]

Originally Posted by bobabode

I hear ya Dave. If only the cubicle hounds would just shut the phuck up and let the guy who knows what he's doing do his job. They could then go back to patting themselves on their backs and claim victory around the water cooler. It's a freakin' mindblower how mechanically inept most of 'em are.

I'm waiting for the day that the muckity mucks in Washington restart the WPA so I can take a job retraining hedge fund pissants and ex stockbrokers the fine art of digging foundations or laying roadbeds or even which end of a framing hammer to use. Captive apprentices would be soooo much fun! Yeah, I do have a sadistic streak, heh heh heh.

Yup, us stoopid cube dwellers wouldn't know a monkey wrench from a pipe wrench a Boba....

[Twodogs]

Originally Posted by bobabode

I hear ya Dave. If only the cubicle hounds would just shut the phuck up and let the guy who knows what he's doing do his job. They could then go back to patting themselves on their backs and claim victory around the water cooler. It's a freakin' mindblower how mechanically inept most of 'em are.

I'm waiting for the day that the muckity mucks in Washington restart the WPA so I can take a job retraining hedge fund pissants and ex stockbrokers the fine art of digging foundations or laying roadbeds or even which end of a framing hammer to use. Captive apprentices would be soooo much fun! Yeah, I do have a sadistic streak, heh heh heh.

The Lake I live on was a WPA project spanning 1935 to 37. It's not a huge lake (175 acres maybe), but the dam is all hand laid stone, as are most of the structures that are still around from when they built it. I imagine some stone masons apprenticed here, it's a damn big dam with a two lane road on top. Three men lost their lives during the project. My wife is kind of the local lake historian and she dug until she found the original charter. The land around the lake was divided into building lots (mostly fishing cabins which is what my house started out as) and you paid 75 dollars per lottery ticket. There was a lot of trading around after the lots were drawn so that folks could get their lots next to one another. To buy a lot, you had to be a white male. No kidding, it says it right on the document, White Males only were eligible for lots. At the time when she found that, I had a very good friend who was a Mexican living across the lake from me. I went over to his house with a copy of the charter and told him he was gonna have to hit the bricks. Man did he get pissed, I guess it was a bad joke. We ended up getting drunk and laughing about it though, so all was cool.

I don't know if it's a small town KS thing or what, but this town is white as it gets. I told yall about seeing a couple black kids walking down the street after some section 8 housing got built behind the grocery store, well, they are gone, and nobody talks about it. I had a guy from Memphis come visit once and we went to Walmart. After about 5 hours here, he whispered in my ear "Where are the black people?" I replied that all we had was white trash and hilljacks.

[BlueStreak]

Originally Posted by bobabode

Those are pretty cool machines Dave. German made?

Ya, Vom Deutschesland. We had some ragged, twenty year-old Trines that barely ran 250 cpm and we had a hard time running a nice looking label on them. When the Italians took over those things were the first to go along with some antique (Built in the 1920s.) equipment. The old stuff was kinda cool, but we're trying to run serious production. We're not a museum.

Those Krones ran ~$1,000,000 a piece. But, they are mighty sweet.

Dave

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by Rex E.

Yup, us stoopid cube 'zombies' wouldn't know a monkey wrench from a pipe wrench a Boba....

Don't be gettin' all touchy on me Rex. What's a monkey wrench? grin. Oh, yew mean one o' them hex head rounding off, knuckle skinnin' wretches. Those things are dangerous. Did you check out those labelers in the vid? That shit Dave and Jay work on would have me in a cold sweat thinking about the cost of screwing the proverbial pooch probably for a year (or more likely five) before I was comfy. Then again I would probably steer my truck into a freeway abutment doin' a 120 if I was chained to a desk for very long. Different strokes, my man...Where's that Wrecks-everything name come from?

[Twodogs]

Originally Posted by bobabode

Don't be gettin' all touchy on me Rex. What's a monkey wrench? grin. Oh, yew mean one o' them hex head rounding off, knuckle skinnin' wretches. Those things are dangerous. Did you check out those labelers in the vid? That shit Dave and Jay work on would have me in a cold sweat thinking about the cost of screwing the proverbial pooch probably for a year (or more likely five) before I was comfy. Then again I would probably steer my truck into a freeway abutment doin' a 120 if I was chained to a desk for very long. Different strokes, my man...Where's that Wrecks-everything name come from?

My Boss tells me I'm lucky because I don't have stress in my job. I tell him to come push the start button on a half million dollar chiller after you just did a 100k overhaul on it. No stress my ass, you are thinking of every nut, bolt, and allen screw in the thing and trying to remember if you got them all tight.

[d-ray657]

Just a guess, Dave, but it seems that the part of the labeling process that would be most likely to gum up the works (pun intended) is the application of adhesive. What special applications keep that part of the process clean. Lots on pretty stainless steel in those monsters.

Regards,

D-Ray

[BlueStreak]

Don,

You're right, the glue can be a PITA. But, really, the best way to keep it where it belongs is to have it set up right, and keep dirt and debris out of the applicator. At the speeds these guys run, it doesn't take long to make a hell of a mess once it starts slinging around.

But, if you have everything dialed in just right, the glue only goes where it's supposed to.

Dave

[merrylander]

Originally Posted by Rex E.

Yup, us stoopid cube dwellers wouldn't know a monkey wrench from a pipe wrench a Boba....

Speak for yourself, before they made a computer jockey out of me I played with 4000 Amp DC power plants and suchlike.