Haas Automation spotlight on our shop in Lafayette, In

[RockinRobert]

 

[QOTHL]

I used to work at a place where we machined depleted uranium.

 

[Virg464]

I used to work at a place where we machined depleted uranium.

Oh Boy! Let the sparks fly!!!

 

[QOTHL]

Oh Boy! Let the sparks fly!!!

You aren't kidding! The cuttings fell in to a tank of coolant. If you didn't clean it out often enough it would catch on fire. We made the penetrators for the A10 Warthog ammo.

 

[Virg464]

You aren't kidding! The cuttings fell in to a tank of coolant. If you didn't clean it out often enough it would catch on fire. We made the penetrators for the A10 Warthog ammo.

Right on, I know them well from my time in the Air Force. Those things made quite the light show when hitting the target!

 

[padam]

You aren't kidding! The cuttings fell in to a tank of coolant. If you didn't clean it out often enough it would catch on fire. We made the penetrators for the A10 Warthog ammo.

Wow, I heard that stuff was very dangerous to be around, a lot of health issues for vets from it.

 

[padam]

Awesome looking shop.
Seems like a very tough business to succeed in these days, so you guys must be doing a lot of things right.

 

[QOTHL]

Right on, I know them well from my time in the Air Force. Those things made quite the light show when hitting the target!

They showed us a video of what it does to a tank...not pretty, goes through the armor like tissue paper then keeps burning while inside. We had a prototype in the shop that was meant to go through 16" of honeycomb steel. It was huge. The stuff I cut weighed about 3/4lb and was maybe 4" long when I finished it. This prototype was over a foot long.

 

[QOTHL]

Wow, I heard that stuff was very dangerous to be around, a lot of health issues for vets from it.

We had to do urine samples every week to see if it glowed in the dark.

 

[Cranky]

We had to do urine samples every week to see if it glowed in the dark.

To see who glowed in the dark?? lol

 

[Virg464]

Wow, I heard that stuff was very dangerous to be around, a lot of health issues for vets from it.

Extremely dangerous! Besides being a low level "alpha" radiation emitter, you can suffer heavy metal poisoning from touching it. So you can imagine the inhalation hazard from it in a battle field environment. Bad Stuff.

 

[RockinRobert]

Awesome looking shop.
Seems like a very tough business to succeed in these days, so you guys must be doing a lot of things right.

WE are swamped with work, but it's almost impossible to find any skilled help!

 

[QOTHL]

WE are swamped with work, but it's almost impossible to find any skilled help!

Are they staying away because of mandates?

 

[moparedtn]

WE are swamped with work, but it's almost impossible to find any skilled help!

A familiar lament in most of the skilled trades anymore seems like...
Comes a time when any of us in such trades has to make the decision to take a chance
and hire unskilled and train them ourselves, with all the risks that entails.
The alternative is to go without - or to pay through the nose.

 

[padam]

A familiar lament in most of the skilled trades anymore seems like...
Comes a time when any of us in such trades has to make the decision to take a chance
and hire unskilled and train them ourselves, with all the risks that entails.
The alternative is to go without - or to pay through the nose.

Or another option is to design systems that unskilled people can use.

 

[padam]

WE are swamped with work, but it's almost impossible to find any skilled help!

At least you are proving that great products are still made in the US.