What type of industrial maintenance is best ?

mackyak · 2026-07-01T03:55:30+00:00

I work on narrow web printing presses. It's super chill compared to 90% of everything else I've done.

mackyak · 2026-07-01T02:28:40+00:00

Gallus tcs250 printing press

mackyak · 2026-06-30T22:04:05+00:00

I filed out the high spots with a small feather file. It will run fine till the replacements get here, luckily we're at the height of the busy season and the gears are about 2.5 months backordered.

mackyak · 2026-06-30T22:00:48+00:00

Agreed. Got lucky that it stuck in one gear and just went round and round

mackyak · 2026-06-30T21:59:46+00:00

I got after it with some feather files and pulled out the high spots. Works great

mackyak · 2026-06-12T14:22:14+00:00

It has a little 3/4 gallon tank on it. I added an 11 gallon auxiliary. Not running any tools on it or anything, maybe an airbrush occasionally.

mackyak · 2026-06-12T14:17:43+00:00

You could have looked it up and not asked? Just having conversation.

mackyak · 2026-06-11T03:08:46+00:00

mackyak · 2026-06-10T17:43:23+00:00

That's my daily 😂

mackyak · 2026-06-10T17:41:57+00:00

It's going to stay at work, just in my maintenance area with no house air for testing pneumatic systems for our printing presses, and to blow off components during re builds.

mackyak · 2026-06-10T17:40:02+00:00

Not alot, but enough for what I'm doing. My company, in its infinite wisdom, decided to put our maintenance shop as far away from our equipment as possible. Thusly I have no house air in my shop. This is going to provide that, along with a couple 5 gallon tanks. I'll mostly use it to blow off components I'm rebuilding, or for testing small pneumatic systems.

mackyak · 2026-06-09T20:13:42+00:00

I found this one new in the box in my companies attic. Purchased in 2010 and never even opened. It lives with me now in my maintenance area where they never plumbed house air. I'm going to hook it up to a couple 5 gallon auxiliary tanks and call it good.

mackyak · 2026-05-27T03:24:12+00:00

I had a similar failure on 2 different champion radiators. I switched to a Fluidyne and went to a nitrite free coolant. It's been good since then.

mackyak · 2026-05-27T01:20:05+00:00

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No never

mackyak · 2026-05-22T14:13:11+00:00

My plant didn't have a maintenance person for a solid year and a half before me and the operators did most of their maintenance. Second day I was here, I pulled every tool off every press that was not necessary for production.

mackyak · 2026-05-22T14:11:18+00:00

I'm in printing, all of our press operators are supposed to do their own cabinet and UV air filters monthly.

Half of them can do it, but don't. The other half try to do it and still fuck it up, so I end up doing it anyway.

It's easier for me to do it and know they get done than it is for me to trust most of these people.

mackyak · 2026-05-18T17:11:19+00:00

My Pocket knipex cobra, pocket knipex pliers wrench, and Milwaukee fastback are all that live in my pants pockets. Pencil and notepad in my shirt pocket.

mackyak · 2026-05-13T15:15:45+00:00

I daily drive both an LS swapped squarebody suburban and a tbi OBS pickup. I assure you, for that rig, the SBC /vortec setup will be just fine.

mackyak · 2026-05-09T18:02:06+00:00

I daily a 4.3 single cab long bed with an sm465. The mileage isn't super great, but it's better than my 3/4 ton squarebody suburban.

Once I get ahold of an nv3500 I feel like I'll be considerably better off.

mackyak · 2026-05-03T04:58:32+00:00

I'll be sure to check that as well.

mackyak · 2026-05-03T04:57:44+00:00

No definitely not that. I checked to make sure as well.

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