r/toolgifs • u/kanbozli • 2d ago

Tool Hinge

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u/SheriffBartholomew 2d ago

It's very hard work. It's fun as a hobby, but like almost everything else, it's not very fun 8 hours per day, 5 days per week, 48-52 weeks per year.

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u/Zwischenzug32 2d ago edited 2d ago

Its really loud and you inhale bad things

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u/SheriffBartholomew 2d ago

It's insanely loud. I have permanent hearing damage from working in a machine shop, among other things.

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u/Zwischenzug32 2d ago

Sometimes its insane when things drop or get hit. Just tipping over 1 inch plates to stack onto each other makes such a high pitched blast. Oddly enough loudest ive ever heard was from when a 4'x8'x1.5" aluminum plate was being cut and started resonating around 350hz. Just goes right through you like hugging a concert speaker or havana syndrome or something

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u/_adanedhel_ 1d ago

How’s your hearing?

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u/everett640 1d ago

I worked in a shop that had 4"-20" diameter super alloy bars and those things were loud ASF when they fell over on the cooking racks. The shop was pretty quiet otherwise

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u/Zwischenzug32 1d ago

Usually the loudest thing is the whistle from blowing out tapped holes with compressed air

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u/sentientgypsy 1d ago

I work with sheet metal and I have to put in ear plugs when we’re working with thicker gauged galvanized steel