Had an old mechanic from the northern oil fields of Alaska, dude knew his stuff and didn’t take gruff from no one. One of the belly pans for are dozer had gotten ripped off do to a operator not paying attention, told the boss it was because the mechanic didn’t tighten the bolts enough. Boss chewed out mechanic and the next day I was helping our mechanic do exactly this, lock tight with a so much torque I’m surprised the bolts didn’t break and then he spent 3 hours welding the belly pan on, 😅 can’t wait for the day we need to pull it off for something all because our operator couldn’t admit it was his own fault.
@@nucleogenexaffiliate there is to where Ricky has to bust some lugs but can't with the hand tools and keeps coming back for other tools. Final gets the torch and says can't be stuck if it's a liquid
@@leviqueen1504 mine is the one where Ricky actually gave a Fuck to the Safety Man and then Safety Man lost it, like literal paper coins with the word Fuck written on it, And both had to go probably for the best.
"That shit will never be loose.....Ever again." I felt that in my soul. I remember building a fence for one of my dads friends and he apparently called my dad and told him I hadnt used enough nails to secure the boards (I used 2 for every crossbeam, more than enough) And I got chewed out by dad. Went over the next day with 3 boxes of nails and a whole day to waste while the idiot was at the docks to drool over his shit boat. He came home to a fence that looked like a bed of nails from the inside and of course called my dad. When my dad came over to see the result, he started laughing and told his friend he got what he asked for. More nails.
We rigged all the engine parts off a navy ship and had to build crates for them to get sent off. All they told us was to build a box and throw them in. But instead we did all this crazy shit to make sure these parts were secured in each box (pistons, sleeves, rocker arms, heads etc.) one of the mechanics came by and took pictures of what we were doing then sent pictures off to his company saying our work was trash and that the parts weren’t secured enough. The last 4 crates we made out of 50, we used every different kind of screw you could imagine. Drilled in probably over 100 screws on each crate. Made sure we stripped most of them. Anything you could imagine to make their life hell when trying to open the crates
I work off of a work order system, and I have gotten these types of notes. When I see these, those who wrote it learn a lesson. Dont piss on the people who fix your F*ckups. Last time I was told that I didnt tighten the lugs enough ( used a calibrated torque wrench to finish the job, as well as marked the steel and counted revolutions when taking the bolt off ), I welded the bolt on, wrote the the engineers email next to the weld and noted "see engineer for questions and concerns"
When I was the log yard equipment mechanic I helped put new wheel motors on the Letourneau that unloaded the log trucks in one bite. When it came time to put the 2000 lbs of torque on the flanges I asked service rep if he had a torque wrench that big. He smiled and asked if I weighed 200 lbs and handed me a 10 foot piece of 2 inch conduit. He said "do the math... 200 lbs x 10 feet with 2 bounces is 2000 lbs of torque".
Isn't that the truth. I've done jobs that required paint pen parked fasteners with sheets signed on every bolt and nut, with a supervising assistant also signing off and painting his color. We would still get told we messed up when the grade 2 chinesium bolts failed that the engineer spec'd.
The inflection in Ricky's voice when he said "what am I doing?" whether by accident or on purpose, is just gold 😂. Because with that inflection, you KNOW what Ricky is about to do.
As a lifelong mechanic/ handyman I have recently taken up design working in engineering... the amount of information we have to comb thru and time we spend fretting over the smallest detail is mind boggling. All done with 3 dozen reviews with a half a dozen engineers or more, only to find that everything was altered in the field by a high-school dropout with a drinking problem and a backhoe. I understand both sides, but damn do I feel redundant sometimes.
There are engineers that do a great job but there are plenty that taint the pool by designing equipment with no regard for the poor bastard that's going to have to fix it, a dual compressor refrigerator I was working on the other day had the only suction access as a king valve between the 2 compressors with no good way to reach it and guess what's on the other side easy to reach, the pinched off suction stub from the factory. This was a problem created by someone who did not even consider someone might need to check suction pressure in the field, and it can only really be solved by replacing the compressor, oh and it could have been solved with a $2 access fitting and a $20k refrigerator. It's not all of you that cause the problem and I assume it's not you until I know otherwise but it's enough.
@@keldon_champion The engineer sat upon his drafting board A wealth of knowledge in his head was stored Like what can be done with a radial drill A turret lathe or a vertical mill. But above all things a knack he had Of driving gentle machinists mad. So he mused as he thoughtfully scratched his bean "Just how can I make this thing hard to machine? If I make this perfect body straight The job had ought to come out first rate But would be so easy to turn and bore That it would never make a machinist sore So I'll put a compound taper there And a couple of angles to make them swear And brass would work for this little gear But its too damned easy to work I fear So just to make the machinist squeal I'll make him mill it from tungsten steel And I'll put these holes that hold the cap Down underneath where they can't be tapped Now if they can make this it'll just be luck Cause it can't be held by dog or chuck And it can't be planed and it cant be ground So I feel my design is unusually sound. And he shouted in glee, "Success at last! This dam thing can't even be cast!"
@@apersonontheinternet8006 metal 3d printing comes into chat "eh, I heard you need this done in titanium, no sweat!" But yes printers still have fabrication limits, and you forgot to mention the tolerances some engineers spec out (like the fellow aerospace engineers in the office were insisting I did 0.03" tolerance on a 2x4 for a building, and I insisted the length I chose was completely arbitrary to begin with and +-1" would be more than adequate and did we really need to scrap a part if it was 0.04" too short when nobody would notice anyways?) Good poem though, don't forget to pick a datum in a weird spot too.
An engineer thinking it's ok to call a worker a dumbass without repercussions tells me he hasn't been around very long.... Not to mention a pinky ringer calling someone a dumbass is the definition of Pot/Kettle Colour check, over.
@@jodystradesstuff5048 A Tard that went to College and thinks that the B.S. Shit-Ticket on the wall makes them better than the Guys that are unfu*king said College-Boys stupidity.
I've had conversations exactly like this, and that's exactly how I responded to a few of them. Needless to say I no longer got any complaints afterwards
This is the exact reason I believe engineers should go through a mechanics gauntlet. They design it, they test it. Anybody can write out an equation and say "good enough for me" but who's going to point out the mistake? Damn sure not the person that did it. A sense of knowing both sides of the fence.
There is a long list of engineers that if I ever meet them they are getting slapped, I was working on this Carter Hoffman dual compressor refrigerator the other day and the only suction side access to system 2 is on a king valve between the 2 compressors, as I'm sitting there both arms stretched as far as I can reach face pressed into the side of the refrigerator so I can reach it I swore I'm slapping that engineer if I ever meet him lol.
@@keldon_champion There are various types of engineers. Design engineers are the ones designing the equipment. Then there are other engineers who go out and actually test the stuff. I'd bet that the design engineers probably don't have time to properly test it due to company pushing them, or they are lazy. But, if its a good place they will test it . If they don't test it; something is wrong with how its organized.
I've seen this kind of thing happen before, and when the engineer gets pissed a year or two later, maintenance was MORE than happy to tell them EXACTLY how it happened.
Got ripped off on a "running" engine once, that was seized solid with a piston at 30° inside the bore. Guy only wanted to give me a partial refund. Safe to say before returning said engine, every bolt in that sucker got the red loctite & rattle gun treatment.
make sure you use the red stuff as you will need a torch to get it apart after that. or maybe even the green bearing seize stuff. It definitely will never be loose ever again.
Yep. And then I was the maintenance guy that to go dig that broke bolt out. Man I did the every night for a year until they had a big layoff. Funny how it never happened again.
I have done things like this while saying to myself "I feel sorry for the next poor SOB that has to work on this" only to have it be me that has to work on it next several years later.
This is SO me. All would have been cool and I would have double checked with the torque wrench. But they put the "dumbass" in there....game over. That stuff ain't never coming back out. Ricky is my spirit animal on this one
And this here is why equipment will always be broken enough to be inconvenient most of the time, but not broken enough to justify the expense required to bring it back up to spec.
Here's a perfect example of an uptight engineer that violated the rules of requesting help from a mechanic. Those rules are: 1) Never tell them how to do their job. 2) Never insult them. 3) Avoid pissing them off. Anyone that violates said rules... well, Ricky already forecasted the result.
sometimes torque specs are meant to be broken. ive seen torque specs for stuff sooo tight that it damaged the parts before you ever reach them and ive seen specs sooo loose they the part is still floppy when at spec. a big problem with torque specs is many people dont know the difference between foot/pounds and inch/pounds. also you can have have several different sources with different specs for the same part
It's a crime that we didn't see the aftermath of what Ricky did with that Loctite I could just see Ricky going to the engineers office and see the top engineer that was talking crap about him in the paperwork and just locking him in his office
