What do you do for a living? With pics.

[Satan]

Slight diversion here, I need to repoint the front of my house, 1906 Edwardian I think its a lime mortar mix and advice on raking out as not to damage the bricks and what product should I use for the mortar mix, preferably ready mixed.

[martauto]

Mart is that injection moulding?

Yes it is mate, I spent over 25 years in that game in a few local toolrooms and we turned out quality gear but along came China and over night the whole lot went pear shaped. Thank you China and succesive governments!!!
Most of the lads walked away from engineering and very few guy`s have been trained in the last 25 years so us toolmakers are quite rare nowadays.
Shame.
I`ve been on cnc`s now for over 25 years but computers do not solve it all as most people think, it sometimes takes a bit of crazy thinking.lol.

Mart.

[Satan]

Mart is that injection moulding?

Yes it is mate, I spent over 25 years in that game in a few local toolrooms and we turned out quality gear but along came China and over night the whole lot went pear shaped. Thank you China and succesive governments!!!
Most of the lads walked away from engineering and very few guy`s have been trained in the last 25 years so us toolmakers are quite rare nowadays.
Shame.
I`ve been on cnc`s now for over 25 years but computers do not solve it all as most people think, it sometimes takes a bit of crazy thinking.lol.

Mart.

And the quality has plummeted........


I was also an electrician in the past, worked on the refurb at T2 back in the 80's (its still standing so I did well), set up the temp mains at the British Library as well as finishing my apprenticeship at the V+A museum, interesting place, lots of stuff hidden away in the basement as when I walked in to one of the storerooms I found the boots from Tommy, shame no digital cameras in those days.



Also spent a few years in IT at EMI and Virgin and also worked at Abbey Road studios interesting place especially the main studio also worked with a few artists and met quite a few work wise.

The free beer and parties made it all just about bearable.

[Satan]

This thread will run out of steam soon, sooooo what do your partners do for a living out of interest to see if there is a balance.

[Jesus325iTouring]

love the mirrors,

the work at longleat looks very impressive.

as for the lime pointing, i don't think there are many folk left who can do it properly these days, seems to be a dying art worse luck. maybe a skill to teach the kids just in case.

just had a look online & they say there's only a handfull of mud & stud houses left in lincolnshire but i know there is a fair few more than the "experts" know about as most have had a brick "skin" put up around them over the years in an attempt to "protect" them,

i think one of the biggest we worked on was just outside spilsby on the way to boston, it was a huge 4 bed-roomed mud & stud that the owners of the land were unsure what to do with, safe to say that after me & a mate had given them a quote as to it's worth after it was rebuilt they changed their mind & as far as i know were going to use it as a hotel of sorts, might have to go back & see what they've done with it.

also, while in that line of work we also worked at bagenderby near somersby the birthplace/home of lord tennyson, while my mate did some lime pointing on st Margaret's church in the village,

unfortunately i was'nt working with him when he was asked to help build flag fen by francis pryor thoigh i did meet him when it was part way through, really nice guy & so passionate about his work.

i really miss being in that line of work but can't go back to it as the materials would do my chest in even more

Quite right, there isn't many people who do it right. Even on the estate I live on (all old properties) their "stonemason" doesn't do it properly, he use cement but claims as he puts some lime in the mix so thats ok
Came back from holiday once and he had done some patch work to my house, it looks utter shit and what he has done serves no purpose other than to have made my house worse by adding cement to the stonework.

Shame you have you health issues, sounds like you could have continued to work in a really interesting field mate.

[Jesus325iTouring]

Mart is that injection moulding?

Yes it is mate, I spent over 25 years in that game in a few local toolrooms and we turned out quality gear but along came China and over night the whole lot went pear shaped. Thank you China and succesive governments!!!
Most of the lads walked away from engineering and very few guy`s have been trained in the last 25 years so us toolmakers are quite rare nowadays.
Shame.
I`ve been on cnc`s now for over 25 years but computers do not solve it all as most people think, it sometimes takes a bit of crazy thinking.lol.

Mart.

Thats an expensive game too, my moulds are dear to build, but injection moulding, even in China, is still bloody dear.

Problem with China, is their quality has improved a lot over the years, at one time they used to pump out cheap rubbish, now the pump out cheap quality. At least they do in the statue and giftware industry.

[Satan]

Couldn't you have repaired your own property Rog or at least take over the maintenance of the whole estate?

[Jesus325iTouring]

I would love too, probably could repoint my whole house, most of the pointing while old is and various colours is still stable. The pointing owrk the mason did was pointing that didn't need doing, and he left bits which did

As for working for the Estate, if they didn't have a bad reputation for slow payments I would love to look after them!

[Satan]

Give them 14 day terms.

[Satan]

Just remembered I also used to look after comms and telex equipment for a Japanese company based in London who had contracts with various large Japanese banks in Europe was interesting flying in to Paris spending 1 hour replacing a PSU in either a Mix or Telex printer and flying out to be home quicker then if I was in the office at Tower Bridge.

Moved on to data cabling and spent a few years installing dealing rooms in the City post de regulation working for a sub contractors to Reuters, the old Stock Exchange was an interesting place. Lots of parties in those days and fun times as the cash was flowing around.

[Jesus325iTouring]

Give them 14 day terms.

I don't give anybody terms, payment due whenever I present an invoice, works well for me.

[Jesus325iTouring]

I lay a cable every morning, usually about 7.15am