LSP_Ron Posted January 12, 2022 Share Posted January 12, 2022 All the sound effects and music is actually kind of funny, like a Loony Tunes episode. TAG, Shawn M, JeepsGunsTanks and 8 others 9 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juggernut Posted January 13, 2022 Share Posted January 13, 2022 Nice. Boy those rivet guns are working overtime. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AirCorps Library Posted January 13, 2022 Share Posted January 13, 2022 Those were the days - not a hard hat or pair of safety glasses in sight! LSP_Matt and D.B. Andrus 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jager Posted January 13, 2022 Share Posted January 13, 2022 If you have ever bucked rivets, ear pro is essential too. LSP_Matt, D.B. Andrus and Woody V 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juggernut Posted January 13, 2022 Share Posted January 13, 2022 2 minutes ago, Jager said: If you have ever bucked rivets, ear pro is essential too. Nah, I’ve shot literally thousands of rivets in my life and the only ones I needed hearing protection for were the monel/stainless rivets in the bearing keeper on the rudder of the Gulfstream IV while using a 4x rivet gun. My hearing is perfectly fine at 60 years old (unless you ask my wife, that is). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jager Posted January 14, 2022 Share Posted January 14, 2022 On 1/13/2022 at 10:22 AM, Juggernut said: Nah, I’ve shot literally thousands of rivets in my life and the only ones I needed hearing protection for were the monel/stainless rivets in the bearing keeper on the rudder of the Gulfstream IV while using a 4x rivet gun. My hearing is perfectly fine at 60 years old (unless you ask my wife, that is). Bucking rivets in the aft fuselage hot section of the F15, MDC required our assemblers to wear ear pro. Not so much on our DC8 re-engining program. Buck-on Bros. D.B. Andrus 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juggernut Posted January 17, 2022 Share Posted January 17, 2022 Clues as to where this is....that last few seconds showing a DC-3 in the background. This footage is most probably from the Douglas assembly line. There are other clues that also lead me to believe this is the Douglas plant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woody V Posted January 17, 2022 Share Posted January 17, 2022 On 1/12/2022 at 7:26 PM, Juggernut said: Nice. Boy those rivet guns are working overtime. When I moved to North Carolina I heard that familiar sound somewhere close in my neighborhood and figured that someone must be building an airplane. Turned out to be a woodpecker hammering on my rainspout. Landrotten Highlander, Juggernut and D.B. Andrus 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dodgem37 Posted January 17, 2022 Share Posted January 17, 2022 'not a hard hat or pair of safety glasses in sight!' Nor hearing protection, OR a spot of grease. Sincerely, Mark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Posted January 17, 2022 Share Posted January 17, 2022 On 1/13/2022 at 11:22 AM, Juggernut said: Nah, I’ve shot literally thousands of rivets in my life and the only ones I needed hearing protection for were the monel/stainless rivets in the bearing keeper on the rudder of the Gulfstream IV while using a 4x rivet gun. My hearing is perfectly fine at 60 years old (unless you ask my wife, that is). FWIW as I've gotten older (56 now) I have gotten much more into PPE. I used to be 100% WFC I am too tough to need it. These days, when operating power tools in my woodshop (table saw, router table, jointer, planer, etc) I always wear a dust mask AND hearing protection. The hearing protection is doubly valuable because any time one of these machines is running, the vacuum that drives the dust collection system is running too, so more noise. One thing that's super-obvious is that if I ever forget and turn a machine on without the hearing pro on, GOD it is loud. Given that at any age over 50 we're just trying to manage the rate of decay to be as shallow as possible, I'm all into protection. Hopefully the dust mask keeps me running for a few more years before my lungs give out... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeepsGunsTanks Posted January 18, 2022 Share Posted January 18, 2022 (edited) No one ever talks about it, but well over 70k Americans died producing war goods. Something like 200 GM executives died at their desks of heart attacks and things like that. Some of the things they were doing were so new, they had no idea how to make safety rules. Just think of the Kaiser ship yards, and welding big sections of ship together, and moving the big chunks around with cranes and trains, they were figuring out how to do the job, and didn't have a lot of time to think about safety. And yeah, the Kaiser of Kaiser Ship yards, was also the guy who came up with Kaiser Permanente. He came up with it because of wage freezes, he needed another way to get people to come work for him, and since no one offered it, employer paid Healthcare was a pretty big deal. Cool Video. Almost a surprise the B-17 was still in production in 1944, when better aircraft were available. Of course the 8th might have revolted if they forced B-24s on all their air groups. Edited January 18, 2022 by JeepsGunsTanks Woody V and easixpedro 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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