Some Stuff
So this week went by pretty quick for me. I've been quite busy at work qualifying a new machine to make a bunch of different part families of screws. We have a pretty involved process for making sure the machine can produce the parts we want. This involves getting my hands dirty with the machine as well as some stats, paperwork, programming and all sorts of other things. Out of curiosity I checked ebay to see if they had any synthes stuff. Turns out they had one of the exact part families I've been making at work with this new machine. Damn, 68 bucks a screw! I probably scrapped more than my paycheck in inventory this week trying to get the process right. But I guess that's what they hire us engineer folk for right? The beginning of the week was nice and sunny with temps in the mid 60's Tuesday and Wed. On Tuesday I went for the first after work ride of the year thanks to Daylight Savings Time. Rode at Palmer with a group of people from MTBR.com that I'...