Re: Is this just one of those "Secret" Machinist things?

Let the record show that etpm@xxxxxxxxxxx (Eric R Snow) wrote back on Sun,
30 Oct 2005 17:59:30 GMT in rec.crafts.metalworking :
>On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 14:25:55 GMT, pyotr filipivich
><phamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>Greetings and Salutations
>>
>> Other day, I'm sent over to the Mori Cell in Bldg 1, and the first
>>thing Bob says is "Okay, clear off the granite slab, get a cup of coffee,
>>pour it on the slab and wipe it off."
>> ?Wash the slab with coffee?
>> "Yeah, it cuts the oil from the Komo." [The Komo has spray and chip
>>issues. Even with shower curtains going up near the ceiling, it still
>>manages to fling chips on our rock. Bad Komo, bad.]
>>
>> Anyway, I figure "WTH, he's been doing this longer than I..." and clear
>>off the slab, pour the coffee and start wiping. It works, too! And after
>>all I've said about building 1's coffee, you really _can_ use it as an
>>industrial cleaner....
>>
>>
>> So, is this just one of those 'field expedites' or just something
>>Machinists Know, which Engineers lack the hands on experience to know?
>>
>>
>>tschus
>>pyotr
>Who gave you permission to post this secret? Man, nobody can be
>trusted anymore. Now that you've posted this the Chinese are going to
>flood the USA with cheap machine tools!

Ah, but first they will have to learn how to make Proper Coffee. That
is the Secret.

And no country of Tea Drinkers will ever get that down pat. Not unless
Starbucks goes and sells out ...
--
pyotr filipivich.
as an explaination for the decline in the US's tech edge, James
Niccol wrote "It used to be that the USA was pretty good at
producing stuff teenaged boys could lose a finger or two playing with."
.

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