Comments by "Bo McGillacutty" (@Mrbfgray) on "Discovering Skills " channel.

@timothysimpson1561 At best the surface is scarred and will blow the seals in a matter of hours. If all those workers were making Western wages it wouldn't even be cost effective if it came out as good as new. BIG respect for resourcefulness and efforts--they apparently don't have a better option or this could tide them over until proper expensive rebuild/replace. We'd never think of repairing a rod lk that, it's likely already gashed and it will be more after such press methods, that it's not perfectly straight not the problem, surface damage that's bearing quality cannot be retrieved, naturally also loss of rod strength and/or fatigue resistance likely but this is not a permanent solution anyway.
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OSHA would paint everything dayglow warning colors between plastered warning labels and have 40 sirens going off constantly, call it GOOD.
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@Zach's Shack NOT A CHANCE. lol ALL of them have significant hearing and vision damage doing things that way, those unlucky will lose an eye or worse.
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@Zach's Shack Yup, not universal tho and after over 4 decades in heavy industry my hearing is still excellent as I protect it as a matter of disciplined routine.
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@Zach's Shack Sounds appropriate, so to speak. Note of caution--dad was an economic geologist and spent time underground, hard rock mine. They had earmuffs mounted on hardhat he'd use (maybe not as good as today's versions) and he still lost all his high notes by mid age and was too vain to get a hearing aid till death at 82. Couldn't here birds chirping or half of the classical music he enjoyed. Granted when your in a tunnel with air powered rock drills hammering steel to steel to rock--it's damn loud, he had the attitude that "I can take a little pain" but it doesn't pay to be tough in some ways. He SHOULD have had both plugs AND muffs. I've always relied just on plugs but rarely worked underground and not around drillers.
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@TheWonderfulStevieP It sure exemplifies why they are poor, competing directly with machines is a losing gambit, like digging a trench by hand vs using a modern excavator...your time can't be worth much.
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Fascinating. 11:10 done my share of that sort of thing and wouldn't do it more than once w/o a left hand insulated leather glove, lol. (he did FINE job given circumstances! Except for using torch as a hammer) Yeah #5 cutting glasses and wouldn't even enter that space w/o ear protection. None of these guys are expecting to last long doing this unfortunately.
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Nearly what we do with ONE OFF custom work , machines would have made 50 in this much time with greater quality and consistency, this is why they are poor...competing with repetitive machines. The inefficiencies here are staggering.
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