this is how it's made
would you want your child working here?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhiNhzQH9Ck
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When you insist on buying the lowest cost part...
Scott Conger
Tyranny under the guise of law is still Tyranny
NH Full Flow Float Valves
Obsolete carburetor parts manufactured
Tyranny under the guise of law is still Tyranny
NH Full Flow Float Valves
Obsolete carburetor parts manufactured
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Steel toes? Sandals.
Safety glasses? No
Machine guarding? What's that?
I suspect the filmmaker chose to film workers who still had most of their fingers.
I'm having custom turnbuckles made for a product I designed. The turnbuckle manufacturer in China sent me a video of a worker forging the components. I can imagine the forging was being done in the back of the sprocket factory since the working conditions look the same. Those conditions seem to be normal in some countries.
Safety glasses? No
Machine guarding? What's that?
I suspect the filmmaker chose to film workers who still had most of their fingers.
I'm having custom turnbuckles made for a product I designed. The turnbuckle manufacturer in China sent me a video of a worker forging the components. I can imagine the forging was being done in the back of the sprocket factory since the working conditions look the same. Those conditions seem to be normal in some countries.
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You should have seen that shop before they cleaned it up for filming!
That shop looks spotless and un cluttered compaired to the machine shop down the road from me. I can't believe they haven't been shut down.
That shop looks spotless and un cluttered compaired to the machine shop down the road from me. I can't believe they haven't been shut down.
1922 Coupe & 1927 Touring
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A good machinist can work in those conditions. The mess was made by him and he can deal with it. People who aren't machinists need to just stay out of the way and stop worrying about hazards that don't exist. Bob
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Film it in black and white add a couple model T’s and you have an early ford factory i bet those machines where taken out of American factories deemed unsafe. Those people are in there Industral revolution as our country become couch potatoes. Did you see how close the spinning wheel was to that guys head?! in time they will form unions and develop osha….
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Great video, Scott. Thanks! I worked at a shop about that condition my junior year in high school. My shoes wore out from getting soaked in oil in just 3 months. I wasn’t allowed to by Ohio law but the football coach’s neighbor owned it. Two summers there always made me appreciate union shops and OSHA later in life.
My neighbor is an IT guy for a big importer. He says when the containers get to them, they are filled with child’s bare footprints who did the loading,
My neighbor is an IT guy for a big importer. He says when the containers get to them, they are filled with child’s bare footprints who did the loading,
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Perry Keet, unless your local shop has 10 employees, they probably will never see osha ( until the first amputation ) There is a copper kettle company hereabouts ( I don’t want to put a bullseye on them) that is actually medieval. First time I’ve ever seen large copper knife switches turning on belt driven machinery. Scariest place I’ve even been in.