Rob01 said:

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45-90 said:

This is a good productive discussion.

Does a small company expand to meet demand or stay in the comfort zone?

After the nuclear collapse, I started with a small company. The two owners fought over expansion and CNC equipment so much, one sold the company to the one who wanted to expand.
The new owner changed the company name and went right after the expansionist idea.
I was hired to run the New CNC lathe.
Everything went good for a few yrs, then came the layoffs. Working in a mostly empty shop on a new job, the owner came to me and said he had just financed his house to make payroll, and would really appreciate it if I didn't scrap one of these expensive copper blanks.
I assured him I would not.
That almost collapse grew into one of the most successful state of art machining centers in the state.
Huge expansions many new buildings full of CNC equipment and nice new offices.
World wide contracts, and cornered 52% of the world's market in area that I worked in, and started.
Just me and my helper made half of the first million dollar month in the company history.

How did we do it?
Work our asses off, bring new developments into the processes.
We strive to be the best, no one in the world will out work us, no one will be as productive or out think us, we are never satisfied with our excellence, tomorrow is a new day for even more accomplishments.
Be a student of your work, learn, learn, learn, and make a contribution.

The company job, IS the employees job.
Your wife will leave you on day shift as easily as she will on night shift.
Mine left on day shift... so let's get to work.

Hire that working supervisor, a hardass company team leader, a motivator, and extreme leader. The supervisor who will clean your machine sump out, while you check in material for machining, do the dirty job for his helper or fellow machinst...supervisors don't do that, or lend a hand and do part of the other guy's job when he's behind plus yours.
Never laugh at someone's mistake, it cost us all, and now you all are not allowed to have a scrap part all month...gets their attention.
Nothing better in a manufacturing or machining company, than to have people you can count on that always have your back...assemble "that team" like your life depends on it, cause financially it does.

Companies need people who will work.
Whatever it takes...do your part.

So Frank would you volunteer to take a team on the 2nd or 3rd shift and give up the day shift that you worked so hard to be on?
I did, more than a few times, about 15 yrs worth...what ever it takes to build the company.
I trained 22 machinist for this particular job on 7 years before retiring. A lot of them just won't do heavy continous work.
Certain companies have better workers when looking for laid off machinist.
HP machinist are duds ...they are lazy and Woke before Woke was invented.

Son's who's fathers owned small machine shops are good, farm kids who want something else as helpers, some former aerospace, many veterans who have it together, my supervisor was a naval officer, not real likable but did his job, kinda like me I suppose, but might I win ya over eventually. I was always an overachiever, 2nd fastest in the state track meet, but no one cares about 2nd place. Live and learn.

Bartlein as company has decisions to make. Nothing here is easy, if it was everyone else would be doing it.
It's all hard, difficult, and almost impossible.
Always keep the CNCs running they are too expensive just sitting there.
I usually run two at a time, wear them out in 5 yrs. Running 2 10 hr shifts. Making over $2500 per hr minus $1200 for material, wages, overhead.
When I volunteered to night shift other CNCs are open, I run up to 4 CNC mills, at a time voluntary... kinda.
You want production, it's one way to get it.
You have cycle time don't just stand around, grab a cup of coffee and go to work...Do Not Ever run out of coffee.
When I retired, the owner told me, "I'll probably never find another employee who works like you." My answer, " probably not".
I had higher paying offers, but declined them. Loyalty has a price, but helping build a company was priceless.
Like coming across the finish line at a State track meet first instead of second, simply the best....
How much do you want to win?...how hard are "you" willing to work?

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TexPatriot said:

I'd just like to hear her speak English, as opposed to ebonics.

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TACC said:

How the fuck is that.
I don't take 85 days off in a whole year.

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Blue Sky Country said:

Dafuq???

Did Kanye West's account get hacked?

Everybody kinda figured something was wrong when he launched those T-shirts last year that featured a big swastika in the middle. He went from 'based, redpilled, he's on our side', to completely going off the rails in a short span. But this, if it was actually posted by him, is a new level of insanity. Damn...

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Dogsniper said:

Velocity?

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sirhrmechanic said:

I was making a cheese joke…

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Rob01 said:

OP you don’t need a 70 degree bolt throw. Been doing this over 30 years and never used anything but 90s and no issues at all on many rifles. That whole fear of scope issues is bolstered by companies selling 60-75degree bolt throw actions.

Glad you steered towards a steel barrel. I have a 27” 7 twist .223 Wylde chambered by PVA and it shoots the 75 ELDs great! I screwed it on my .308 TL3 action and it ran great. Don’t sweat magazines. Get some MDT polys and run them. I load mine at .020” off the lands in the Wylde chamber which has a .62 freebore. If you plan to mostly shoot the 77 and below the Wylde does a great job.

What actions are your .308 and 6.5? You may just be able to pop a barrel on one of them.

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Blue Sky Country said:

I think it was the "Arakwe". One of the much older Dixie Gun Works Black Powder Annuals had an excerpt on it. Strange but apparently true and the captain's quick wits secured the ironclad from being stormed. There was no Wisconsin named boats on the Civil War era ship roster but Wisconsin AKA BB-64 made legends of it's own when it's 16 inchers vaporized the entire top of a mountain housing North Korean coastal artillery positions during the Korean War...

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oldshooterback said:

Back in the day, most people got married in June because they took their yearly bath in May, and they still smelled pretty good by June. Since they were starting to smell, however, brides carried a bouquet of flowers to hide the body odor. Hence the custom today of carrying a bouquet when getting married.Baths consisted of a big tub filled with hot water. The man of the house had the privilege of the nice clean water, then all the other sons and men, then the women, and finally the children. Last of all the babies. By then the water was so dirty you could actually lose someone in it … hence the saying, “Don’t throw the baby out with the Bath water!”Houses had thatched roofs-thick straw-piled high, with no wood underneath. It was the only place for animals to get warm, so all the cats and other small animals (mice, bugs) lived in the roof. When it rained it became slippery and sometimes the animals would slip and fall off the roof, resulting in the idiom, “It’s raining cats and dogs.”There was nothing to stop things from falling into the house. This posed a real problem in the bedroom where bugs and other droppings could mess up your nice clean bed, therefore, a bed with big posts and a sheet hung over the top afforded some protection. That’s how canopy beds came into existence.The floor was dirt. Only the wealthy had something other than dirt, leading folks to coin the phrase “dirt poor.”The wealthy had slate floors that would get slippery in the winter when wet, so they spread thresh (straw) on floor to help keep their footing. As the winter wore on, they added more thresh until, when you opened the door, it would all start slipping outside. A piece of wood was placed in the entrance-way, subsequently creating a “thresh hold.”In those old days, they cooked in the kitchen with a big kettle that always hung over the fire.. Every day they lit the fire and added things to the pot. They ate mostly vegetables and did not get much meat. They would eat the stew for dinner, leaving leftovers in the pot to get cold overnight and then start over the next day. Sometimes stew had food in it that had been there for quite a while, and thus the rhyme, “Peas porridge hot, peas porridge cold, peas porridge in the pot nine days old.”Sometimes they could obtain pork, which made them feel quite special. When visitors came over, they would hang up their bacon to show off. It was a sign of wealth that a man could, “bring home the bacon.” They would cut off a little to share with guests and would all sit around and “chew the fat.”Those with money had plates made of pewter. Food with high acid content caused some of the lead to leach onto the food, causing lead poisoning death. This happened most often with tomatoes, so for the next 400 years or so, tomatoes were considered poisonous.Bread was divided according to status. Workers got the burnt bottom of the loaf, the family got the middle, and guests got the top, or the “upper crust.”Lead cups were used to drink ale or whisky. The combination would sometimes knock the imbibers out for a couple of days. Someone walking along the road would take them for dead and prepare them for burial.. They were laid out on the kitchen table for a couple of days and the family would gather around and eat and drink and wait and see if they would wake up, creating the custom of holding a wake.They used to use urine to tan animal skins, so families used to all pee in a pot & then once a day it was taken & sold to the tannery. If you had to do this to survive you were “piss poor.”But worse than that were the really poor folk who couldn’t even afford to buy a pot; they “didn’t have a pot to piss in” & were the lowest of the low.The next time you are washing your hands & complain because the water temperature isn’t just how you like it, think about how things used to be.

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