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When you insist on buying the lowest cost part...

Post by Scott_Conger » Tue Jun 21, 2022 11:13 pm

this is how it's made
would you want your child working here?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhiNhzQH9Ck
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Re: When you insist on buying the lowest cost part...

Post by Mark Nunn » Wed Jun 22, 2022 8:09 am

Steel toes? Sandals.
Safety glasses? No
Machine guarding? What's that?

I suspect the filmmaker chose to film workers who still had most of their fingers.

I'm having custom turnbuckles made for a product I designed. The turnbuckle manufacturer in China sent me a video of a worker forging the components. I can imagine the forging was being done in the back of the sprocket factory since the working conditions look the same. Those conditions seem to be normal in some countries.

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Re: When you insist on buying the lowest cost part...

Post by perry kete » Wed Jun 22, 2022 8:51 am

You should have seen that shop before they cleaned it up for filming! :D

That shop looks spotless and un cluttered compaired to the machine shop down the road from me. I can't believe they haven't been shut down.
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Re: When you insist on buying the lowest cost part...

Post by tmodeldriver » Wed Jun 22, 2022 10:50 am

A good machinist can work in those conditions. The mess was made by him and he can deal with it. People who aren't machinists need to just stay out of the way and stop worrying about hazards that don't exist. Bob


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Re: When you insist on buying the lowest cost part...

Post by Bryant » Wed Jun 22, 2022 12:03 pm

Film it in black and white add a couple model T’s and you have an early ford factory :lol: i bet those machines where taken out of American factories deemed unsafe. Those people are in there Industral revolution as our country become couch potatoes. Did you see how close the spinning wheel was to that guys head?! :lol: in time they will form unions and develop osha….
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Re: When you insist on buying the lowest cost part...

Post by Dropacent » Sat Jun 25, 2022 3:06 pm

Great video, Scott. Thanks! I worked at a shop about that condition my junior year in high school. My shoes wore out from getting soaked in oil in just 3 months. I wasn’t allowed to by Ohio law but the football coach’s neighbor owned it. Two summers there always made me appreciate union shops and OSHA later in life.
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Re: When you insist on buying the lowest cost part...

Post by Dropacent » Sat Jun 25, 2022 9:24 pm

Perry Keet, unless your local shop has 10 employees, they probably will never see osha ( until the first amputation ) There is a copper kettle company hereabouts ( I don’t want to put a bullseye on them) that is actually medieval. First time I’ve ever seen large copper knife switches turning on belt driven machinery. Scariest place I’ve even been in.

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