While working with early tape driven NC Cincinatti Milicron milling
machines at Boeing Plant 2 in Seattle, I occasionally had to deal with
"Engineer Laison" workers.
One incident with a particulary persistent engineer wannabee concerned
her query as to why it took longer to produce a finished aircraft part from
a small run of parts than a large run of parts on a time per-part basis
(set-up time is constant).
I told her that the make-up parts were left-handed and they took longer
because there weren't as many left-handed machinists.
I can't remember seeing her again.
Ken Spurling
1.6L
At 02:23 AM 1/13/01 -0000, you wrote:
>When I worked for the Ministry of Defense here in the UK the apprentices
>regularly got sent to the supply stores for a ball of whitworth thread and a
>long weight.
>Worked every time :-)
>
>Eddie
>England
>1969 SRL311
>eddie@ratdat.com
>www.ratdat.com
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