What Is Your Day Job?

[🪦 TONY MORAN FAN ●]

I work for a huge forging/finish machined rings company called Doncasters and have been there now for nearly 17 years!We basically make tons of different sized components for jet and airoplane engines etc, well anything that flies really lol.I work on Lathes and Borers and my job is to simply remove any flashing or cracking of the metal after it has come outfrom the furnaces, jobs tend to "Flash up" sometimes on the diameters after expanding etc and must be removed before the next opp for that particular job. Both the hammer and press drive thru what we call "Punches" straight downthru the middle of most jobs which then creates a hole which is then eventually finish machined to a certain size in mm.We have two forges where we have a 5 ton hammer and a very big press (couple of ton), the press simply squashes big solid metal lumps down to size and the hammer does the same thing on with repeated blows. Watching howeasy both these squash and flatten solid metal lumps down to certain thicknesses is an eye opener. Hours are fab and are 6 til 2 Mon to Thurs and 6 til 1.30 every Friday which gives me all afternoon to go tothe gym lol, and a big bonus with work only being a short 10 min drive if that for me!I'm extremely busy all the time thankfully which can only be a very good thing <img src=\"style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/thumbsup.gif\" style=\"vertical-align:middle\" emoid=\":thumbsup:\" border=\"0\" alt=\"thumbsup.gif\" /> -D