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Originally posted by chiQ: I got bored anyway Say hello to white with blue tips

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Originally posted by bitWISE: They never do. I've tried to figure it out but gave up.

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it's normalised to what the people who rated you, vote like, as a pattern. If you were rated 1, by 10 people that only ever rated 1 (i.e., really not very nice people, who were trying to ruin other peoples ratings..) then you wuld get something close to 10, as their range of votes is 1, and youre at the top of that range.. if they voted 1 or 2, and gave you a 1, then your score would be more like 5.. halfway through the range they normally express...

                 

[This message has been edited by Eraser : 11-25-2002.]

                 

Thought I'd finally post a pic. I decided at a great
time I guess? At work and dirty. Hehehe.

All who know me? I wave Hi to you. Not in the pic though.
I took the pic with a digital camera I got
quite a few months ago. Put it on top of a File cabinet
and finally figured out the self-timer on the camera.
5 mins later I had the pic. I'll have my son take a
few other pics when i get home maybe.

Again... Hello to you all @ QUake3World.

Stop by Quake3 Movies and Demos forum and say hi.

                 

I am mostly not sitting down at this desk. Saturdays
are the only time I really am on these systems. The
other Tuesdays thru Fridays? I'm out in the shop
Heat Treating Parts. I get in 4:30 am (pacific time)
and work until around 2:30 to 4:30pm. You can see a
few pics my wife just took a bit ago before we went to
lunch. I'll try and explain a little on each pic.

Above is a picture of me pulling some parts out of a
molten salt pot. The parts you see wired are 1550°F.

Above is a picture of me quenching parts in a specialized
oil used in quenching parts rapidly. Hot stuff! The pictures
aren't that good a quality, I know... sorry.
Best we can do with the lighting in the shop and the
camera itself. It's not that good but it does the job.

Above is a picture of me having the outer door open and
flame curtain on( the lower flames out of all of them )

Above is a picture me reaching into the inner chamber
of the furnace you see. I have a long bar (about 15'
long) grabbing onto a tray inside. The tray has parts
that are also 1550°F.

Above is a picture of me taking the parts from an inner
chamber where they are heated for a specified time. We
then pull the parts to the middle chamber (which has an
elevator for raising and lowering parts into a 300
gallon tank of the same specialized oil as before in a
prior picture) We pull the tray with a basket on top
into the middle chamber and Quench the parts, basket,
and tray.

Above is the last picture I'll post. It's the finishing
of the quench. I'm about to close the door. I want to
thank my wife for taking thse pictures. Takes some
talking to her to take pictures of me doing that. She's
not thrilled about the flames and dangers of the job.
I had an accident a few years back with one of these
furnaces... but I won't go into that right now.

Hope these pics show up and are not too crappy a
quality for you to see a little of what I do for a
living? I will try and get some better pics of some
other things here in the shop in anyones interested.

All of a sudden I had this quote pop into mind.....
Not sure why but thought I would post it for a laugh.

Out of the frying pan and into the fire!

Take care everyone.

EDIT:icture links worked fine.... typos though...

                 

That shirt I'm wearing is thicker than a normal uniform
shirt. The only thing that is hot is my face. The
exposure to the flames is at times over-whelming(SP?)
but it's only 10 seconds tops from the tme you turn
the flame curtain on, open the outer door, open the
inner door, pull out the tray w/basket of parts into the
middle chamber and quench the parts in oil, closing the outer door and turning off the flame curtain.... Hehehe.

But yeah it is a little hot at times..... Great place
to work in the winter..... WORST place to work in the
summer.. exspecially living in the High Desert of
California.

Well back to work for me... been messin around on the
computer for too long. Will check back later today
and see if any more questions on the pics... hhehehe

                 

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Originally posted by SaTurN: Hah, nice pics Piecemaker

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Thanks SaTurN! I figured it was time to post a
pic of myself. So what the heck....

Here are a few more I posted in the thread I made in
Quake III Movies & Demos forum. Check em out.

                 

'bout 40 mins of work

[This message has been edited by Eraser : 11-25-2002.]

                

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Originally posted by SaTurN: There was a time when I wasn't too lazy to do stuff like that. That's why we hired a young fresh puppy like you Eraser

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now, how about that payraise