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That's looks like a great work environment.

Nothing for me to post just a computer and long desk.

 

a giant breast implant.

 

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This was 1 of the calls from yesterday........People can't drive in DC.....
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What the hell happened?

Looks like a pretty narrow street with a mph around 35.

 

Ran into the back of a parked car and flipped over. Speed limit is 25, there is a school right behind me.

 

That is a every morning occurance here in Florida. 99.9% caused by Snow Turds

 

Days at the office......


Last one is the office here. Sorry it is kind of dark!
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Holy crap! I had a mouthful of coffee when I read your post!!! (And my Blackberry cell cam handy).
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Not so fancy, but it pays the bills and the commute is all of about 30 seconds...
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I see the injured parked car now.

My friends a fireman and I've heard countless of his stories. His ambulance ride along stories are almost unreal.

lol

Much cleaner than my dads desk.

 

Third one down...Fchat on the laptop and loaded magazines to the right; beware of the F-Chat Police!

 

Where'd you get that picture?

 

God bless your work.

 

Yea! I just noticed that! Cool!

 

i made it all by myself.

 

I must've been editing my post when you quoted it. I added another observation...the loaded magazines.

To echo PeterS, thanks for your service.

 

Yes. Had just gotten in from the field but we were at condition 3 the first few months in country. What is more funny and I also notice now is that it seems the loaded rifle is pointed right at whoever I was talking to!!

 

Well this is a little history of where I work at:

Ball Metal Beverage Packaging Division:
Facility Info: The Williamsburg facility occupies 400,000 square feet on a 29-acre tract between Williamsburg and Newport News, Va. High-speed production lines provide an annual capacity of more than 2 billion beverage cans. The plant's customers include the Anheuser-Busch brewery in Williamsburg, and various Pepsi and Coke locations.

History: The Williamsburg plant was the second of Ball Corporation's metal beverage container plants. It was completed in 1972 with three production lines. It underwent a $23 million expansion in 1979-80 and a $16 million modernization in 1985. An 180,000-square-foot warehouse was added in 1998.

Each number goes in order of the pictures:

1) Explains the basic layout of our plant and what a can goes through to become a can. The process starts in the lower left of the picture where it says Lubrication System and ends at the Palletizer in the lower right of the picture.
2) This is our Uncoiler, it uncoils the sheets of Aluminum into the Bodymakers.
3) This is a Bodymaker, this machine makes the can into a 12 or 16 oz. can.
4) This is a Trimmer, we use this to trim the can to the right height or to remove any rough edge at the top of the can.
5) This is one of our 4 Printers that we have in the plant, it has 8 inkers that puts the image on the cans and then a varnish roll that applies varnish to the can to make the image look better on the can.
6) This is one of 6 Neckers that we run at our plant, they make the neck that you see on the cans.
7) This is called the Flanger and it is a section of the necker, the last process, that makes the Flange on the can so that the top can be put on the can after it gets filled.
8) This is what the cans look like once they reach the Palletzier and the pallets are made and then they are sent to be strapped so they can be shipped.
9) After 21 layers are made on the Palletizer they are dropped to a strapper and this is the final step before they are sent to there new home, the customer.

I hope you guys enjoyed this little tour, there are a lot of other things that go on in our plant so it's almost impossible to put every little step and process on here, but this is the basic way that a can is made. There is a test after class today!...lol...lol...
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What's with the massive condom?

 

Technically, I am a chemical and HAZMAT engineer with the USMC. That was a 500 gal BLACK RUBBER pod of basically rocket fuel that the army had OVER FILLED, put on a SILVER pallet, and sat in DIRECT sun in 125deg heat. So it was splitting down the side and the pin prick leaks were volitising in air. In effect making the area a thermobaric weapon:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermobaric_bomb

So my job was to get as much of it out of the pod and stop the leak before all hell broke loose. And because the geniuses that caused the problem placed the problem next to the Predator hanger (Read: <$100m wort of stuff in the tent plus a stack or five of HellFires) it was decided to fix the problem rather than just clearing the area (2k radius) and letting nature take its course.

Got a medal and became a smoking buddy of the general after fixing that one.

 

I never knew that you were in the service, just want to say thanks for all of the hard work that you guys do and putting you're life on the line for us! Keep up the good work!

 

I work for an apartment developer/owner and thanks to technology (laptop & smart-phone) I "work" from wherever I am. Usually I'm on-site in a construction/leasing trailer...
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ON8yj8GbJw

 

Scary but good story.

Thanks you!