/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>tales from the fab floor

>working in manufacturing facility as IT, place has 400 workers in its hayday.
>welders
>paint shop with ovens big enough to bake a truck
>laser cutter
>every bender and bolter imaginable and so much more...
>and that motherfucking DEBURR room. Or I should say rooms, two of them.
>one room for ALUMINUM ONLY and another for STEEL ONLY!!! Big fucking signs on the doors, giant vent systems going to separate ventilation systems.
>Theres a fucking reason for this people!
>Mexicans hired to cut cost, 5 mexicans working deburr room, mexicans nto big on following the rules it turns out.
>when unsupervised all the different metals get deburred in one room so they can talk and fuck around while grinding metal.
>weeks pass, nobody was paying attention.
>I hear alarms go off in the back, I charge out of my server room along with a couple of the other supervisors and head to the back.
>Smoke just pouring out of one of the quarter million dollar ventilation systems attached to the deburr rooms.
>chemistry mode kicks in; Oh shit you niggers did not!
>Were screaming at people to get back, fire extinguishers are rushed to us from all directions and that god damn VP shows up screaming about is ventilation system.
>somebody with welding gloves starts ripping out the 3 foot long tubular filters, and yep they are burning.
>Extinguishers unleashed from all directions, my mental note; uh that aint gonna do shit.
>extinguishers spent the VP yells at the mexicans to roll the filters on to a pallet jack get them out of the building.
>burned mexicans everywhere, i'm shaking my head at the wonders of chemistry, outside the fire keeps growing and proceeds to destroy a very expensive new pallet jack.
>when the fire department showed up I talked to the chief and told them what got mixed up in the filters, they waited until the last of it was spent before dousing the molten mass with water.

Kids, dont mix your metals in deburr.