On Wednesday morning the phone rang and when I answered it, to my surprise it was a guy from the company were I used to work. I hadn’t heard anything from them in two years. The guy who actually rang me is the company’s electrician. They have bought two second hand Automatic Die Cutting machines (Bobst 1575 EE) and in order to comply with modern Cutting Die standards they have to under go alterations
The question on me was would I be interested in helping them with the alterations (only theory) and of course expenses would be paid for.
Naturally I jumped at the chance to earn a bit of extra money (who wouldn’t?) My next question from me was, “when did they need me” and again to my surprise the guy said “ today”. The telephone call came at twenty past ten and twenty to twelve (the company being 100 km away from were I live) I was standing in the office of my former boss.
I spent the afternoon discussing the alterations with the fitters and the electrician. We were in the production building and across from were we stood the Rotary Die Cutter started and I estimated the speed at around five thousand blanks (boxes) an hour. Although the noise in the building was loud because of the other machines I heard straight away that something was not right on the machine. I informed the shift Forman and he stopped the machine immediately. On a Rotary Die Cutter one fastens the cutting die on the cylinder with bolts When we checked the machine out to my amazement the operator hadn’t mounted the Die correctly (not enough bolts, Die was lose). Can you imagine, what would have happened if that had broken lose?
During the afternoon I had the chance to tell the boss what I had heard and seen, once again to my surprise he offered me a small part time job. The job entails helping of course with the alterations and secondly drawing up maintenance documents for all of the automatic Die Cutters and helping out with my know how were I can.
The photos were taken in the production hall.
The first is the old Bobst 1575, the second is the Rotary Die Cutter, the third is the Cobra Automatic die cutter.
Take care out there were ever you are. Tschüss.
2 Kommentare:
A good story and congratulations. I hope some of the money you earn goes towards the microphone and WebCam. Enjoyed the Skype call.
This was a great story, and one of those can't put down stories until you've squeezed very word.
Keep it up and an excellent report together with the photographs.
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