| Posted by Ranger |
9/25/2005 3:39 AM | remove |
He is not kidding about the weight. Each of those weighs in at about 1800 lbs when full.
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| Posted by mewthree |
1/24/2008 3:37 PM | remove |
about.. I used to move those around in 2002..
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| Posted by Samurai |
1/24/2008 7:06 PM | remove |
they call these 'gaylords'... not sure why. When I worked in plastic injection molding and extrusion molding, the name always left me scratching me melon.
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| Posted by mewthree |
1/25/2008 4:04 AM | remove |
yeah .. that got me too..
Once I saw one that was 3/4 full of polypro regrind topple. not cool. I basically had to do the cleanup cause i was fairly new then.
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| Posted by nostra-YOUPPI! |
1/25/2008 2:23 PM | remove |
you were the new guy did they send you for a skyhook down in the basement next to the box of powdered oil?
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| Posted by mewthree |
1/25/2008 4:39 PM | remove |
nope, basically a grind vac and a new gaylord
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| Posted by nostra-YOUPPI! |
1/25/2008 10:03 PM | remove |
well they keep the dry oil down next to the checkered paint and the right handed wrenches
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| Posted by Samurai |
1/26/2008 8:41 PM | remove |
Mew, did you ever regrind the stuff? They had these things at work that your put the runners and junk parts in and it chewed them up... used to have to empty those.
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| Posted by mewthree |
1/26/2008 8:46 PM | remove |
well just to clarify .. I worked at Zohar for a short time.. and i worked at another plastics place that used to be in Griffon town a few years ago.
Yes I did make re-grind, Basically they used a wood chipper to regind the "bad parts" or defects. There were a few rules on what could be put through a particular chipper, depending on what type of regrind you planned on making. for example: black poly-pro regrind meant you could put any colour of poly pro in it.
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| Posted by Samurai |
1/26/2008 8:48 PM | remove |
each of our machines (18 of them!) had their own regrinders. Basically, they were about 5ft tall, had an opening at the top and the grinder in the bottom. Under the grinder was a drawer to catch the plastic chips. Most of the time, the regrind was dumped back into the machine and rerun. Other shit couldn't be re-run, though.
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| Posted by mewthree |
1/26/2008 9:07 PM | remove |
yes that is the way our system pretty much worked as well depending on the quota for colours. our grinders were pretty much the same as those. I used to be the guy who took them apart and cleaned all the parts inside.
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| Posted by Samurai |
1/27/2008 12:48 PM | remove |
whenever we did a color, order or mold change, I was the guy that had to clean them out with acetone and a rag. Had to make sure to get every trace of last material out of them.
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| Posted by mewthree |
1/28/2008 5:40 AM | remove |
yes i know that routine... once I saw a guy hit the racking when trying to place a mold (on a palette) up on the rack after it was no longer being used... anyways the rack collapsed and 3 molds got cracked and several had scratched and had dents in them.... fuck that made a sound.. the guy was lucky he wasn't killed top it off because he knew he hit it and went up a ladder to investigate but was just off to the left about 8 or 10 inches . What an idiot! he caused some ridiculous amount of tens of thousands of dollars worth of damage.
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| Posted by Samurai |
1/28/2008 12:22 PM | remove |
with us, we had an overhead I-beam crane that lowered the molds into the press. After that, they were hung and bolted in... from what i gathered when i worked there (1996-98), a good sized molds' price tag started at $75k (that was for design, materials and construction)
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| Posted by mewthree |
1/28/2008 2:11 PM | remove |
yes exactly!
that is what we had as well to mount the molds. but to store them they would be put on hardwood palettes and placed on a rack. Yeah we had some molds that were as cheap as 50k, but those were for small things. I knew a douchebag who took his exacto-knife and scratched the inside of the mold (it was a gloss finish) and it costed over 3k to repair it.
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| Posted by Samurai |
1/28/2008 8:45 PM | remove |
ours were stored out in the warehouse under lock and key. We also would get molds from other companies and run them as subcontractors... we did instrument panel backings for Ford Taurus, fuel tank selector switch housings for Ford F150's, hose nuts, electric meter covers (lexan ain't cheap), bindings for Tubbs snowshoes... it was pretty weird what we ran out of there.
And they had the balls to pay us $5.70 an hour!
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| Posted by mewthree |
1/29/2008 12:53 AM | remove |
We made cases for things.. sort of like lunch box type things, and also these mini briefcase type things. some of them were components for products sold in stores (example: the case your dog grooming kit came in)
Also we made these colour sample chart type things, which were basically these sticks that were supposed display the colours this grout (for tiles) company had to offer. that was a pain.. also other odds and ends. not huge things.
I got paid ok there for the time, which was about 6 years ago and I made $8.50/h
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| Posted by Samurai |
1/29/2008 12:43 PM | remove |
one of the most fun things we ran was an experimental run of MegaBlocs (like oversized Legos) What was neat was that they ran extra for us all... I had so many, I had a 6-7 ft MegaBloc tower in my room. :oP
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| Posted by nostra-YOUPPI! |
1/29/2008 1:43 PM | remove |
samurai, we know what mega blocks are, mega brands(formerly ritvik) is based in montreal :)
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| Posted by mewthree |
1/29/2008 2:21 PM | remove |
I worked there for a while driving a forklift!
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| Posted by nostra-YOUPPI! |
1/29/2008 4:52 PM | remove |
which plant? the old miracle mart warehouse in st laurent, the old eatons warehouse in st laurent or the old northern telecom plant in lachine?
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| Posted by mewthree |
1/29/2008 6:14 PM | remove |
the old eatons I believe it was.
the hickmore one next to the yard.
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| Posted by nostra-YOUPPI! |
1/30/2008 4:42 AM | remove |
yeah that was eatons, i loved the cool gas pump islands they had
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| Posted by mewthree |
1/30/2008 6:16 AM | remove |
I loved operating the beam crane for the big batteries.
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