Topic: Making spokes..

[CycleRanger]

Measuring out the nipples is hoot.

[Alan F.]

Wow, but my back hurts just from watching that.

[ekpent]

Chairs and work benches must be in short supply ! Work boots also. Hate to be the guy standing in water all day in sandals. These vids are always very interesting to watch.

[Kelly E]

Seeing stuff like that makes you appreciate OSHA.

[CycleRanger]

Seeing stuff like that makes you appreciate OSHA.

Yep.
Watching these videos makes me appreciate a lot of things!

[BomberMann650]

Hate to be the guy standing in water all day in sandals.

Pretty sure some of what they're sloshing around is electro plating solution.

[simon#42]

it is , and the reason they are all young is that everyone over 40 has already died

[Steve F]

Anyone over 40 there had their feet rot off from the chemicals.  I'd bet there's no EPA there either.

[Don R]

 I learned to sit on my shoes like those guys when I was a service plumber, later I carried a shower curtain for a drop cloth. I could crab walk in a crawl space but never could do that bird squat for any length of time.
 
  I did a pipefitting job in a Japanese owned bearing factory once, (NTN Bower) there was oil in the air from the quench hardening and machining processes. Every floor fan had a puddle of oil under it and there were blisters in the paint in the rafters and beams. If you poked them they were like oil zits. My boss was one of those wingtip shoe wearing guys. I suggested he leave the $$ shoes in the car or slip on his rubbers. After a week I could taste the oil even before I got there in the morning. Thank goodness when the hard part was done, I got moved on to a new project.

[Steve F]

I learned to sit on my shoes like those guys when I was a service plumber, later I carried a shower curtain for a drop cloth. I could crab walk in a crawl space but never could do that bird squat for any length of time.
 
  I did a pipefitting job in a Japanese owned bearing factory once, (NTN Bower) there was oil in the air from the quench hardening and machining processes. Every floor fan had a puddle of oil under it and there were blisters in the paint in the rafters and beams. If you poked them they were like oil zits. My boss was one of those wingtip shoe wearing guys. I suggested he leave the $$ shoes in the car or slip on his rubbers. After a week I could taste the oil even before I got there in the morning. Thank goodness when the hard part was done, I got moved on to a new project.

Years ago in the place I retired from, we had over 100 automatic screw machines, single and multi-spindle machines working with cutting oil.  There would be a blue haze in the air by the end of lunchtime.  They later installed electrostatic high-voltage air cleaners and that mostly eliminated the oil mist in the air.  Before that, the oil would cling to everything including the roof struts, conduits and pipes and eventually drip off.... usually right onto your head.  Yuck.  I was so glad for those air cleaners, and today it's really nice since almost the whole plant is now CNC machines using water soluble coolant (cutting fluid) and there's no more mist in the air from them.  I look at these videos of these factories in India and Turkey and Pakistan and wonder if tables were outlawed or something.