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Knobhead
The old jack of all trades, master of non goes out the window when you become an industrial electrician.
Occasionally you get to play with the odd wire, but 9 times out of 10 you’ll be sorting out gear boxes, hydraulics, blockages, welding, digging holes, lining drives up, crane driving and even unblocking the bogs!
Fitter in blind panic mode, he’d been left a shaft to take a pinion off. Simple job if you cut down with the gas axe on to the key and stop at that point. He didn’t! He cut through the key and continued in to the shaft. So what should have been a quiet night for me ended up with me welding up the shaft, turning it in the lathe, re-cutting the keyway on the miller, I was bloody knackered! That was only my 2[SUP]nd[/SUP] day working with him! Eventually the management had to split us up before I strangled him.
Occasionally you get to play with the odd wire, but 9 times out of 10 you’ll be sorting out gear boxes, hydraulics, blockages, welding, digging holes, lining drives up, crane driving and even unblocking the bogs!
Fitter in blind panic mode, he’d been left a shaft to take a pinion off. Simple job if you cut down with the gas axe on to the key and stop at that point. He didn’t! He cut through the key and continued in to the shaft. So what should have been a quiet night for me ended up with me welding up the shaft, turning it in the lathe, re-cutting the keyway on the miller, I was bloody knackered! That was only my 2[SUP]nd[/SUP] day working with him! Eventually the management had to split us up before I strangled him.
