So stoked right now

Spent my first day in a machine shop today. It was seriously awesome. I helped two other guys create a sheet of carbon fiber that will sit under solar panels of a solar car. It took two hours for a sheet that was just 14 square inches (and we need several square meters), but it was worth it.

Twas fun. Can't wait to go back.

Hah, I had that for like 2 days, "Metal shop" and then they chose our class to try the first electric class. Hated that crap. I got my lowest grade in it too. Metal shop was so fun.

It's not a class, it's an extracurricular.

Because I had clumsy hands, I did not enjoy an engineering class I took in middle school.

never had that in my trash school

jj16802 wrote:Because I had clumsy hands, I did not enjoy an engineering class I took in middle school.

You had engineering classes in middle school? Be grateful you even had that... none of my middle schools or highschools even offered a basic workshop class.

Ace wrote:

jj16802 wrote:Because I had clumsy hands, I did not enjoy an engineering class I took in middle school.

You had engineering classes in middle school? Be grateful you even had that... none of my middle schools or highschools even offered a basic workshop class.

The only things I remember from that class was designing a stool using cardboard, using AutoCAD to create a model of a basic aerodynamic car and then using a piece of wood and a saw to create it. I would have enjoyed it if it weren't for my clumsiness.

jj16802 wrote:

Ace wrote:

jj16802 wrote:Because I had clumsy hands, I did not enjoy an engineering class I took in middle school.

You had engineering classes in middle school? Be grateful you even had that... none of my middle schools or highschools even offered a basic workshop class.

The only things I remember from that class was designing a stool using cardboard, using AutoCAD to create a model of a basic aerodynamic car and then using a piece of wood and a saw to create it. I would have enjoyed it if it weren't for my clumsiness.

That's pretty awesome, bruh. And who wasn't clumsy in middle school? :P

This is the end result of the car:


Look at that imperfect curve and how the hole isn't in the middle!

jj16802 wrote:This is the end result of the car:


Look at that imperfect curve and how the hole isn't in the middle!

looks pretty good dude

In my 2 days of metal shop I designed a metal tic tac toe board.

@jj: Looks sweet, good job

lol you guys and your hands on stuff.

I read the title as "So stroked". Needless to say; I was confused.

So I was told today that I was exposed to toxic materials, because I did everything (as did the two veteran team members that were instructing me) without any protection aside from safety glasses. I should've worn a facemask to prevent breathing in carbon dust (which is very bad) and gloves, which I didn't do and cut my finger as a result.

But I regret nothing, for now.

inb4 mutant ace

Ace wrote:So I was told today that I was exposed to toxic materials, because I did everything (as did the two veteran team members that were instructing me) without any protection aside from safety glasses. I should've worn a facemask to prevent breathing in carbon dust (which is very bad) and gloves, which I didn't do and cut my finger as a result.

But I regret nothing, for now.

Join the X-Men.

But seriously though, that was stupid of you. Carbon dust does nothing serious, but yeah if you breath in a lot of it, it could do damage.

El Qahira wrote:

Ace wrote:So I was told today that I was exposed to toxic materials, because I did everything (as did the two veteran team members that were instructing me) without any protection aside from safety glasses. I should've worn a facemask to prevent breathing in carbon dust (which is very bad) and gloves, which I didn't do and cut my finger as a result.

But I regret nothing, for now.

Join the X-Men.

But seriously though, that was stupid of you. Carbon dust does nothing serious, but yeah if you breath in a lot of it, it could do damage.

Stupid of me? I did exactly what I was told to do, and I didn't think of breathing anything in at the time. I was more concerned with not getting my finger sliced off by various cutting instruments. And yes, carbon dust can do serious damage. It just takes a lot of exposure to get to that point.

I'll chat with the lead guy next time I'm in the shop about it.

If he told you to jump out the window, will you do it because he told you?

That's what I keep on telling you in all our arguments...you have a brain, use it. Don't take anyone's word for anything. Analyze it first.

Ahmed, put yourself in his shoes, or at least put up a realistic scenario.

I mean come on now, you'd never think about the details while you're on the spot in the moment.

Craig wrote:Ahmed, put yourself in his shoes, or at least put up a realistic scenario.

I mean come on now, you'd never think about the details while you're on the spot in the moment.

In lab I wore face masks and goggles when dealing with the rat. They never told us to bring one.

El Qahira wrote:If he told you to jump out the window, will you do it because he told you?

That's what I keep on telling you in all our arguments...you have a brain, use it. Don't take anyone's word for anything. Analyze it first.

You didn't quite get it. If he hadn't told me to jump out a window, I certainly wouldn't have. I wasn't given some blatant stupid instruction. I wasn't told to ignore getting a facemask, it just wasn't brought up in the first place.

I had never worked with carbon fiber before. How would I have known that it's sharp and dangerous to breathe in? You're expected to know what to bring to chem lab because you're had lab before, and all possibly damaging materials are clearly labelled as such. There's just several meters of carbon fiber rolled up in a corner of the workshop. No warnings or anything.

This wasn't a failure on my part, this was a failure on my two instructors, or the person/people who taught my instructors. Don't be so harsh, brah. I was still getting used to the awesomeness of being in a machine shop.

Ace wrote:

El Qahira wrote:If he told you to jump out the window, will you do it because he told you?

That's what I keep on telling you in all our arguments...you have a brain, use it. Don't take anyone's word for anything. Analyze it first.

You didn't quite get it. If he hadn't told me to jump out a window, I certainly wouldn't have. I wasn't given some blatant stupid instruction. I wasn't told to ignore getting a facemask, it just wasn't brought up in the first place.

I had never worked with carbon fiber before. How would I have known that it's sharp and dangerous to breathe in? You're expected to know what to bring to chem lab because you're had lab before, and all possibly damaging materials are clearly labelled as such. There's just several meters of carbon fiber rolled up in a corner of the workshop. No warnings or anything.

This wasn't a failure on my part, this was a failure on my two instructors, or the person/people who taught my instructors. Don't be so harsh, brah. I was still getting used to the awesomeness of being in a machine shop.

Lol ok, well don't worry too much. Youre not in danger.