"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile) 03/08/2019 at 11:19 • Filed to: far side friday

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TheRealBicycleBuck > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 03/08/2019 at 11:36

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Friday is here!

Today I get to work half a day, then go pick up my wife and daughter from the airport. We’ll see if visiting NYC during the coldest time of the year g ave my daughter second thoughts about applying to schools up there.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > TheRealBicycleBuck 03/08/2019 at 11:46

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By all rights I ought to work half a day, but something is simmering in the sales department that is refusing to come to a timely boil, and I have to do drawings for it.

I’d already worked a full week by about 10 AM. Actually more if you count the time I was here that I futzed with some drawings while not actually officially here (long story).

Maybe the cold at least depressed washerman and panhandling aggression?

TheRealBicycleBuck > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 03/08/2019 at 11:57

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I hear you. Since I was working from home this week, I had a hard time walking away from the computer. Night before last, I made dinner, we enjoyed some father/son bonding time, then I took a short nap. I was up again and working at 9:30 and didn’t go to bed until around 1:00 am. The dogs made sure I was up by 6:00 am so they didn’t miss their breakfast....

nerd_racing > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 03/08/2019 at 11:59

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Definitely me on the right. AT least on fridays. 

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > TheRealBicycleBuck 03/08/2019 at 12:29

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Meanwhile, I’m fixing the drawings for something I drew up four years ago, because the welding department decided to be “creative” in interpreting something I failed to specify, and the solution is apparently to completely change how the part works. Yay.

TheRealBicycleBuck > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 03/08/2019 at 12:39

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When my wife was working, she was constantly drawing up details which were not specified in the architect’s drawings. When she was working for a design-build firm on design-build contracts, that was part of her job. When she started working as the owner’s rep for a school system, that became a liability issue. The project couldn’t wait for a two-week turnaround for new drawings , so the school just accepted the liability and told her to fix it.

I’m glad she’s not in that situation any longer.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > TheRealBicycleBuck 03/08/2019 at 13:18

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I am right where the rubber meets the road - whole ensembles of parts that have to fit with or into or onto one another with as little as a sixteenth of an inch tolerance. Sometimes that means getting blindsided by sheet metal getting bent with less tonnage than normal, people reading old versions of parts into a punch so I end up making a fix twice (too far) and then back again , things getting welded erratically, and the ever-popular “I couldn’t figure out how this went together because I didn’t read the instructions and so I made something up and that required me to ask for some little angles and can you draw those angles and put them on the drawing?”.

Or the fix before the “welder being creative”, today mind you, which was “sheet metal has been making this wrong for years, and the bad parts have been going to welding and getting welded wrong, and the piece which fits to these has historically been assembled wrong, so we’ve been redrilling these four holes every time and didn’t tell you until just now.”

Or last week (?) , which was “Oh, yeah, I guess the caster got changed like a month after you drew up the conditioner base, so it now interferes with the isolator foot, so we’ve been taking the feet off to move the conditioners and putting the feet back on by picking up the whole 800lb unit once it’s about in place. Sorry, didn’t tell you about that.”

WHEEEEE

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > nerd_racing 03/08/2019 at 13:19

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It’s no longer a Friday thing for me, I assure you.

TheRealBicycleBuck > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 03/08/2019 at 14:15

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I spent an hour this morning discussing the finer points of scale with an engineer. He insisted that some drawings  were done at 1”=500’ and that enabled them to put the projects on 100 sheets, implying that I’m a moron because my draft set was 156 sheets. He ignored me when I told him that I measured the scale and it was 1”=400’, the original sheets were 34x22 and he was printing them at 11x17, and that the scale I was using for my draft matches their scale exactly. His biggest concern was the number of sheets, so we finally agreed to adjust the scale so we could get the sheet count under 100. Why the count was more important than using a normal scale, I’ll never know. Perhaps it’s the same thinking that leads to price tags for $9.99 instead of $10. 

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > TheRealBicycleBuck 03/08/2019 at 14:34

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Because we (the drafters) don’t really do architecture or survey except to say “in the building drawings that you have provided us, our insulated room and conditioner go here”, we’re mostly able to steer clear of representational scale to sheet on anything. Since we have such a wide range of part sizes, it wouldn’t even help that much. We just dimension the shit out of the parts (or rooms/etc.) and rely on sufficient levels of detail and accuracy, then let people in fab or customer reps contact us if they have questions.