Many years ago I got made redundant, was hugely into my photography at the time so wanted to try it as a business
Managed to get a few jobs and hated every second, sucked all the fun out of it doing it as a job
+1 photographers are undervalued imo.
People are so used to just pushing a button, they assume that's all professional photographers do.
Using a machine tool is not the time for day dreaming listing to your favourite tunes
Like headphones when riding a motorcycle, if you aint switched on your ending up in a body bag
Ear defenders don't block sound as such. They help reduce the levels to a safer level.What doesn't make sense to me, in a workplace environment, regarding say hearing the fire alarm bell, wearing ear defenders may prevent that too??
My radio lives in the garage these days.Another question.
Are you as good as hood and some of the other pros on here at machining?
If you get the job theres no learning on the job, mess up a expensive lump of stainless or whatever the first time and you’re gone
And as far as music, if you’re working at speeds to keep up in a machine shop you definitely haven’t got time to be listening or fiddling with a ipod
Im not grumpy, just a business owner
Im not grumpy, just a business owner
Many years ago I got made redundant, was hugely into my photography at the time so wanted to try it as a business
Managed to get a few jobs and hated every second, sucked all the fun out of it doing it as a job
Ear defenders don't block sound as such. They help reduce the levels to a safer level.
Can still have a conversation with them on and can certainly hear an alarm.
Not so with headshones in/on
Ear defenders don't block sound as such. They help reduce the levels to a safer level.
Can still have a conversation with them on and can certainly hear an alarm.
Not so with headshones in/on
There is actually a fairly complicated calculation that must be carried out to ensure that HPE affords the required level of protection without over protecting.
What most folk do is that they go to the catalogue, buy the most expensive HPE with the highest level of protection and then find staff aren't using it as its uncomfortable (higher clamping pressure required for higher protection) or that it blocks out too much noise as the level of protection is too high for the environment.
Irrespective of any type of HPE, you will always hear any alarm. They are designed to make a noise that's always audible. there will be a few exceptions
Being a motorcyclist weaned me of the radio years ago, find the voices in my head far more entertainingMy radio lives in the garage these days.
Need to concentrate and music doesn't aid that.
Again, depends on the volume level,....in the past I have actually used them with ear defenders over the top and still heard people.
Also its not good to be using headphones etc for music. Seriously damages hearing. Lots of info about this
I've found the clamping pressure of the 'normal' ones to become too much, thankfully I've only needed to wear such equipment for say an hour or two at max,....feel sorry for anyone who's suppose to wear them 8 hours a day, don't think I could do it.
Again, it all comes down to how sensible you are with the volume control, personally I have mine set at a very low.[/QUOT
I agree, but now you are in charge of a factory with 75 workers, most of whom use some type of headphone to listen to music throughout the day.
How are you going to measure the noise inside the ear canal
Then how are you going to police the volume level
I agree, but now you are in charge of a factory with 75 workers, most of whom use some type of headphone to listen to music throughout the day.
How are you going to measure the noise inside the ear canal
Then how are you going to police the volume level
Is wouldn’t want to be a machinist.Anyone gone from using their own equipment/making stuff in their own garage to working for someone else in a unit/factory type of environment?
Aside from getting use to using much larger milling machines etc, how did you find the transition? I'm just trying to think of all the possible pros and cons and whether or not such a move would be suitable for me.
Here's some of my thoughts/questions in general, I'm guessing that you are stood up/by a machine for pretty much 8 hours a day? You have the noise of many machines around you going for all that time too, any chance of you having a radio/MP3 player just to help focus/drown out all that excess noise?
Guessing that it could be a world away from spending a few hours doing your own thing in your own garage which you have complete control of, maybe a workplace environment makes milling/turning less enjoyable??