Good Thursday Morning guys. Just one more day to go until the weekend. Oh and more rain in the forecast for today AGAIN. Anyway have a good Thursday and be safe out there!! :tup:

Rainy dayz here.

I forgot to follow up on some dogs we saw at the shelter. Theyre probably already adopted. Im not one for little yappy type dogs, but I saw this sweet chihuahua. Spent about ten minutes with it and not once did she bark, really friendly. But they arent outdoor type dogs and Id be scared that theyll break their little tiny legs..

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I'z up. :yawn:

Someone get the number of the trunk that hit me. :icon14: Got to quit on going to bed at 2 am and getting up at 7:30 am. :icon14: Last couple of mornings. Have to take some Bayer Back and Body to get the body moving. :shakes head:

Time to jump in the Z and head for work. :driving: Highlight of my day. :driving:

I went to bed at 930pm, got up at 230am :eekdance:

Pouring down here too.:shakes head:

Ok. What do we think are the best ways to have EW ship me his old set of wheels?

I dont mind. Good sleeping weather to me.

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I don't mind it either if i didn't have to be in and out of it bringing cars in the shop.And of course we are swamped with them today.

That does kinda sucks.

Pony Express

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Let the daily beatings begin. :icon14:

Almost done this audit. 1 minor finding (manufacturing failed to update a work instruction after changing their procedure). I'm waiting for the auditor to finish up documenting his observations, then we negotiate on a few points, he closes the meeting, and can :gtfo2:

I was ready to strangle him yesterday by 5 pm.

They will try to drag it out. The longer it goes. The more money they get. Unless you have a contract with a set amount.

They nic-picked us to death at Elliott.

You guys didnt go through a dry run on the work instructions? We used to have constant meetings with each department going through them before we went through the audit.

Quick answer is no. Longer answer is we've got literally hundreds of Work Instructions, some of which are out of the scope of what I do. My branch of the company is only 41 people, so having the manpower to do a dry run of all potential work instructions the auditor could be going through prior to an audit is... not out of the question, but unlikely. Especially in an area that I don't directly control. Getting our director of manufacturing to do anything like that is difficult.

Edit: I will add that the areas performing to the work instructions are supposed to be reviewing their work against the WI on a regular basis, but we're still working on the discipline of that mindset. Right now it's still a little too much of a "if quality isn't watching, it doesn't matter" thought process.

Al (the auditor) is actually pretty good about sticking to his plan. It helps that Dekra (certifying body) wants us to keep using them, which means that they try to limit unexpected costs.

I finally bought a Dremel. It is supposed to arrive this weekend.

I've practically memorized that thread, I've looked at it so often in the last few weeks :tiphat:

Be careful. You're going to start finding stuff to use it, whether they need it or not lol. "Hmmm, this edge needs some beveling..."

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Another great Amazon story... Ordered some silver/graphite anti-seize last weekend cause I didn't want to use the copper stuff I have. But I also saw they have the stick form of copper anti-seize, so I also ordered one of them (the stick form is so easy to use!).

Order arrived yesterday (w/o Prime btw). There were 2X sticks of copper and no silver anti-seize in the package. No response from the seller yet. Screw Amazon. I'm just going to call my credit card company. They will take care of me.

That's the idea :tup:

I keep seeing shìt everywhere that needs a little touch up. Hand filing and cutting is getting old.

You haven't been to Austin...

Biggest problem is the runners. They are all over the place. But they're easy to handle. I just trip them as they run by. Most of the time they aren't even paying attention :rofl2:

Harbor Freight. 4pk of funnels = $0.79. For that price they are practically one-use worthy. After use, I store each one in a different plastic bag for the varying fluids

I feel you. I went back to using hand files bc when I Dremel it tends to go like this:
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I've got an old metal funnel I use for oil. It goes in the 'empty' oil jug when I'm done with it. The 'empty' jug also gets used to drain oil jugs into when they are 'empty'. I've got almost 3 quarts of oil I use for the mower in my 'empty' jug. :rofl2::rofl2:

Done the audit. Excellent.

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Almost to 30K :postwhore:

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The screws on mine are self-tapping. But the extra room will definitely help :tup:

Gonna grab the silver anti-seize locally. Also looking at grabbing some nickel anti-seize at the same time. The nuclear grade is much more expensive, but for the quantity I can get locally, it is actually cheaper than the non-nuclear grade. Far less quantity in the nuclear grade, but $35 of non-nuclear grade is way more than I'll ever need.

Worth it? Thoughts?

about time lol catching up to me now.

I think regular anti-seize will be fine.It takes me a few months just to go through one small bottle at my shop.

You mean the silver?

I probably don't even need the variety. But if I get some nickel stuff I am just wondering whether I should get 8 oz of the non-nuclear grade for $35 or 1 oz of the nuclear grade for $12. Since I have silver and copper, the nickel would just be for specialized uses. Thinking there's no need for me to have 8 oz of the stuff.

Drove an hour to interpret for client but, client said did not need and interpret. Told staff to sign doc, left w $200.00 richer. Yesterday had another assignment near my house and pt failed to show up. Another easy $100.00

Ian B

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