Wednesday October 4th,
I woke up today with work on my mind. Being a machinist is the path I have chosen to provide for my family, so I have accepted the good with the bad. I got dressed and cleaned up for work and then drove the whole four minutes to work and somehow made it to work on time. I’d say that is a pretty lucky break for anyone to have so like I said I take the good with the bad.
I have been running large copper parts at work for an aerospace company. There are three different parts that will be brazed together to create one massive nozzle. It cannot be achieved in a single block of copper because the internal must be a solid shaft yet have a cavity inside it that allows fluid to move which will keep the part itself from not overheating. This is the end of weeks of running the three components and I assume tens of thousands just in raw material. I got those done successfully and then got to change over to a Delrin part which is resin material version of plastic. That wasn’t as stressful as it was simply a pipe shape that needed to be shaped to size for a pharmaceutical company. There was only one of those so after I was done with that part, I had to switch over to a third part of the day. This was some brass parts for commercial burner nozzles for one of the world’s largest commercial burner companies. Making good parts for companies is internally rewarding but also very stressful to know there is risk in the process. I will finish the rest of that order tomorrow.
After work I had to get to the Masonic lodge as we had a new candidate going through his last step to becoming a Master Mason. It was a good event, and everyone seemed to enjoy themselves. After we were finished, I had to leave quickly and make some calls to prepare for the tomorrow night’s Shriner member meeting. We have a massive dispute with the Indianapolis Shriners basically doubling their dues and most of our local members are switching their membership to the Fort Wayne Shriners and the Indianapolis group is trying to force our members to stay under them and not lose dues from its members.
Anyways it’s a short journal but a long day so I will end it here and say: “we made it through another day.”