Your Most Interesting thing from Work.

[jchu1988]

When I was doing my year-in-industry as an undergrad, I was tasked with testing various fire retardant formulations for a polyurethane company. Some of these formulations worked ok, but other caused the foams to burn far better than the virgin foam. To this day, no one has yet worked out why this is.


Currently, we have used a technique to amplify a 10mW laser to several watts. Just as a reference 10mW is nearly eye safe while several watts can be used to weld steel.

[L3nny]

In 15 years of work not one single thing of interest has ever happened to me. Never get a job on a IT helpdesk.

[dizzyblonde]

Saw about 1000 Walnut Whips shoot up into the air once, when a conveyor snapped.

Seeing a dozen temps jump for cover as the fell like bombs was priceless

Home time!

[tigersaw]

Many years ago the airport was shut due to snow. So we have a whole night shift to get through and an airport to play with. Gathering a few engine intake covers together, (bit like big fibre glass dustbin lids), we turned all the runway lights onto max and had mile long sled races being towed by the operation guys 4x4's.

But the best night of all was the night of the hurricane - as the wind built up and things became a bit serious we were all sent out to gather debris and protect the parked aircraft all all cost. Now some of the debris was huge aluminium hold containers bouncing down the taxiway at 20 mph - ramming them out of the way and crushing them into corners with a unimog was pretty amazing

Ironing board racing at a compnay house was funny, then the large amounts of helium I have used thy not sure which was funnier!

[MisterTommyH]

Hearing a client of ours asking why one of our drawings had 'f*** knows number thus' rather than 'X number thus' marked on a section was interesting.... and one of those stories that has become legendary in the office.

The draughtsman had asked how many of these are there.... The engineer had replied 'F*** knows' and it went from there.

While I was working in construction some years ago, we had a digger removing topsoil ready for a new access road. According to the plans of the site we'd been given, power and communication cables were running a foot out from the boundary wall and three feet down. The JCB driver was quite surprised when 6 feet out and less than a foot down he caught them with his bucket. There was a loud bang and alarms started going off as all the monitors etc in the security building went out. It was 20 years ago but I suspect the Official Secrets Act still forbids me from saying which military establishment this was!

I'm make race car and bike dampers for öhlins it's usually pretty interesting, get to work with so very tric bits of kit from basic stuf right up to f1 grade custom made one off stuf, we Do a lot of work with in a vast amount of motorsport eg f1,f2,f3,formula Renault, lmp1 proto types , lmp2 , btcc ,wtcc ,gt3 ,gt1 ,classics ,mx ,road bike,road car just to name a few,

We currently look after the whole f2 field of about 120 dampers and rebellion racing the only prototype team to be beating Audi and there a privateer ! We also do custom fabrication like making a set of TTX46 fit a porsche boxer s for hartech racing , then won on its second race outing ect ect ect

Also have use of a machine shop so make loads of stuf for my self

So yeh my jobs very interesting

[Messie]

I taught Damon Albarn