So what's your "real" job?

[Marshy]

I'm getting trained to analyze diesel engines as part of my job. I really wish the equipment would work on high speed engines like chainsaws but it's for slow speed diesel engines and reciprocating compressors.

Here's and example of the data that's collected.
X axis is crank angle where 0 is TDC.
The blue line is the cylinder pressure. The squiggly lines are all vibration data picking up signatures from intake and exhaust opening. You can diagnose valve train noise, injector issues and other mechanical issues within the engine.

@Steve
@redline4

 

[Steve]

I'm getting trained to analyze diesel engines as part of my job. I really wish the equipment would work on high speed engines like chainsaws but it's for slow speed diesel engines and reciprocating compressors.

Here's and example of the data that's collected. View attachment 220864
X axis is crank angle where 0 is TDC.
The blue line is the cylinder pressure. The squiggly lines are all vibration data picking up signatures from intake and exhaust opening. You can diagnose valve train noise, injector issues and other mechanical issues within the engine.

@Steve
@redline4

Thats pretty neat stuff there! I have used pressure transducers for valve alignment diagnostics. Its pretty cool when you can have an accurate real time picture of what's going on in there.

 

[Marshy]

Thats pretty neat stuff there! I have used pressure transducers for valve alignment diagnostics. Its pretty cool when you can have an accurate real time picture of what's going on in there.

We were able to pick up a collapsed hydraulic lifter on an engine. Went in and found it was smashed. The peak firing pressure and the angle which it occurs is critical. There is a lot you can tell from that.

 

[Mastermind]

i haven't seen anyone renting pigs on here yet somebody young this could be a opportunity. just saying.

Rental swine? Surely not.

 

[Steve]

We were able to pick up a collapsed hydraulic lifter on an engine. Went in and found it was smashed. The peak firing pressure and the angle which it occurs is critical. There is a lot you can tell from that.

Isnt this stuff fun?!! The feeling you get when you can look at a line and accurately diagnose something.

 

[Skeans1]

Some days it cutting some days it’s fixing take your choice. I’d bet 95% of all of our Logging is commercial thinning vs clear cutting it’s a nice break up from just laying everything out that’s in front of you.

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[mettee]

 

[PA Dan]

View attachment 220875

What the hell is that...

 

[mettee]

What the hell is that...

Can you see it?

A 290' guyed tower

 

[PA Dan]

Can you see it?

A 290' guyed tower

Oh ya that's what I thought it was...[emoji12]

 

[BK13]

No thanks. Fat guys belong on the ground.

 

[Brush Ape]

We had quarter horses, rodeo stock and cow horses to be exact,...

That's where Randy screwed up. Shoulda got some of them cow horses. If you can't sell 'em for chuck roast you can still ride the dang things that's what I always said.

 

[RIDE-RED 350r]

My job changed back in September. I now work for National Grid as a fleet technician. It was a very good move for us. My income doubled what I was making at the highway department on day 1 and goes up from there.

 

[fearofpavement]

So when I started this thread some years back I was working for a mission as their director of aviation ministries. We subsequently resigned (in 2016). Looked into a few flying jobs and I decided that I never ever want to wear a necktie. So Groundi and I decided to go into real estate investing full time. We had about 2 1/2 years of rice and beans but now our income is stabilized. What we do is buy distressed properties, fix them up and then rent them out. So most days we're wearing clothes covered with paint and caulk stains and the majority of wood I cut is with a circular saw, miter saw or table saw. Our tree service business has become very small as we don't have much time to pursue it and also we're old and fat and tree work is tough on us. I still have way to many chainsaws but have thinned out a lot of them. We like what we do and oddly I don't really miss the aviation industry after being in it up to my neck for 39 years.

 

[David Young]

Rental swine? Surely not.

I clearly understand no rental pigs




But how bout dem bovines?

 

[Mastermind]

I clearly understand no rental pigs




But how bout dem bovines?

Sick people travel in groups I see.

 

[Bilge Rat]

Sick people travel in groups I see.

We are all here in some small part because of you.

Feel better now?

 

[Spladle160]

Mechanical project manager. I manage commercial plumbing and mechanical installations. Mostly public work at the moment, schools, fire stations etc.

 

[Mastermind]

We are all here in some small part because of you.

Feel better now?

Oh my.

 

[so il logger]

Still logging