Profpointy
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You may jest but when we were doing railway info systems, taking the PC apart and hoovering out all the brake dust and other shyte was very much part of our repertoire
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You may jest but when we were doing railway info systems, taking the PC apart and hoovering out all the brake dust and other shyte was very much part of our repertoire
ebikeerwidnes
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Yup - schools have similar
PCs in the woodwork room were notorious - for some reason they "had" to be near the machine that created the most dust
Art were the worst - paint and glue are not 100% compatible with the cooling system of a CPU
fritz katzenjammer
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Back in the early 90s I was working on an early machine vision system, I inherited the task from an outgoing engineer and so didn’t get to select the original hardware.
teaching machines to see, what can go wrong!
anyway, after a lot of development work it sorta worked in the lab so we decided to give it a shot on the factory floor. Well, in the heat of the plant the poor motherboard overheated and crashed before it could complete booting up. I fit two 450cfm fans ( 12x3” Muffins ) to the top of the cabinet to cool the system, you could fly a kite in that systems exhaust. Now I was able to get it to complete booting up before it overheated.
I ate up 35,000 dollars on that system only to find out that the original software couldn’t handle the resolution we needed and the computers of the time couldn’t handle the heat of a plastics plant, so the program was quietly scrapped. I was there six years and an amazing amount of money was blown on stupid projects just to use up money from a budget so we wouldn’t loose it on next years budget.
I’m retired now and don’t miss work a bit.
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ebikeerwidnes
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Hmm - I too have worked in places where we HAD to spend all the budget or it would get reduced next year
which made long range planning a farce as you had to spend up this year and the idea of saving for now and replacing stuff every 5 years was just impossible
All uphill
Still rolling along
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I'm retired too and have yet to miss work.
I remind myself it's early days, It's only 9 1/2 years since I finished.
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Why on earth have PCs in a wood working room. What incompetently managed school was this?
Dogtrousers
Lefty tighty. Get it righty.
For the same reason that you need a hammer and chisel in the IT lab, of course.
EckyH
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Punkawallah
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I’d argue that you -must- have missed work, or you wouldn’t really be retired . . .
I’ll see myself out.
All uphill
Still rolling along
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Maybe I wasn't really there in the first place...
Dogtrousers
Lefty tighty. Get it righty.
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ebikeerwidnes
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We did mention that concept but schools are weird places
The one with the main problem was a very old one running an old version of Windows and that was needed to control an very old cutting machine of some kind
We refused to even try to connect it to the network and the designs were transferred to it by USB stick
to be honest, I was surprised that USB sticks worked on it!!
raleighnut
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Yep a CNC machine will need a computer nearby to load CAD programs onto it, a long cable run in a workshop is not a good idea as it can easily be damaged. Schools/colleges do not have the funding for 'all singing all dancing' modern machines so tend to run older (yet still serviceable) machines not good enough for modern 'pro' workshops. I've worked in places that have CNC routers capable of holding and auto changing up to 20 different cutting bits automatically but a simple basic machine with manual bit change is capable of the same results but at a far slower pace than modern workshops demand.
