{"id":16885,"date":"2015-09-16T01:00:30","date_gmt":"2015-09-16T11:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=16885"},"modified":"2015-09-13T16:35:23","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T02:35:23","slug":"just-a-little-smoke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=16885","title":{"rendered":"Just a Little Smoke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With aluminum shavings flying about I was enjoying an after work session in the machine shop.<\/p>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_16864\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16864\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><script>(function(d, s, id) {  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.3\";  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><div class=\"fb-video\" data-allowfullscreen=\"true\" data-href=\"\/\/www.facebook.com\/video.php?v=10206203129268622\" data-width=\"300\"><\/div><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16864\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Machining the mirror cell from an aluminum scuba tank on the lathe<\/figcaption><\/figure>Making the heavy cuts to rough out the part I needed to remove a lot of material with a boring bar, I was cutting hard.  The tool was also getting bogged down with aluminum sticking to the steel tool, to prevent this I was using a little machine oil while cutting.  Predictably things got hot and started smoking, no problem, just stop and let the metal cool as I watched a streamer of smoke waft up from the spinning part.<\/p>\n<p>Then the fire alarm goes off.<\/p>\n<p>A moment of disbelief ensues, this had never happened before, and this was certainly not the first time I had created a little smoke in the machine shop.  Nothing to do but call our facilities manager and let him know that I had just set off the fire alarm, not that he could mistake the loud ringing in the background of the phone call.<\/p>\n<p>I also realized that earlier that day the fire alarm company had been about, replacing old sensors on the alarm system.  This had to be related.  With my phone call complete I joined everyone else outside.  Admitting responsibility led to a round of good natured joking at my expense&#8230;  Yeah, I will hear about this for a while.<\/p>\n<p>Fire alarm reset everyone went back to work.  I hope my disruption of the night crew preparing to observe was not significant.  It was still quite light out and observations had not yet begun.  I returned to finish the part, this time carefully not creating any smoke in the process.<\/p>\n<p>The next day I found out what really happened.  It had been decided to replace the heat detectors in the machine shop with smoke detectors.  To my mind not a great decision, they will get set off.  It is not a question of if, but when and how often.  I just find it amusing that this occurred the first day.  No worries, I expect it will get fixed.  The same person who made that decision gets the phone call when the alarm goes off.  Sufficient motivation to deal with the problem I expect. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With aluminum shavings flying about I was enjoying an after work session in the machine shop. Making the heavy cuts to rough out the part I needed to remove a lot of material with a boring bar, I was cutting hard. The tool was also getting bogged down with aluminum sticking to the steel tool, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=16885\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Just a Little Smoke&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[206],"tags":[2127,207,2125,2126],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16885"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16885"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16892,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16885\/revisions\/16892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}