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DeBangis
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What's plater?I was a very good plater in my late teens and 20,s
colnerov
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It's a form of 'union'.
pressbrake1
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Two meanings
One is boilermaking, vessels and other large fabrications mainly from plate steel
The other makes you very popular with the ladies if your ranking is platinum
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Your quote "the travesty is platers being paid £12 an hour and welders the same."
It has always been like this - you stick a bucket on your head and look a bright light all day - suffer the positions you gotta get into - suffer the metal fume and nobody values your input.
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But I think "engineering is everything" - nothing happens without it.
Food production - manufacturing - transport. Take engineering out the equation - and it all grinds to a halt.
But nobody values you input - you would be better off on a till in Lidls - money wise!
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When I am "making stuff out of metal" I work in my pal's Fabrication shop and we refer to it as "the Fab shop" when my mrs inquired I explained that I went there to be FABulous! Ergo fabricators are just fabulous!
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I did a five year apprenticeship as a ‘Fitter and Turner’ and I’ve got an ONC , bear in mind this was the sixties. I guess the ONC would be a BTech now? But I wouldn’t call myself an engineer, I’ve always thought that Engineer implied a degree or similar qualification.
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Hnc minimum
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I believe that who does engine management mapping is on another level in this sectorPaint sprayers in the motortrade also suffer with this as well....
Tell them it’s just 0’s and 1’s
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What I've heard about the stories of my neighbour who spent a good 40 year of his life offshore, oil plants , drilling platforms and pipe layers .
The jobs are very differentiated .
The are various figures who do different tasks
Workers specialized in just one thing and they do just this thing.
Flame cutters they can cut a hole enough straight to look like drilled .
There were others who had the ability to oxyacetylene welding.
Welders who as said up above , they can just weld , if seen doing something else they are not supposed to do they are immediately fired .
He told me about the fact that it was done to maintain the standard , and musclear abilities.
They were not even allowed to chip off the slag.
If was required to drill a hole within a tolerance, they called a machinist to make the drilled hole .
Fabricators were called to prep and tack parts together
Many times not even tack , operations done by the welder.
The jobs are very differentiated .
The are various figures who do different tasks
Workers specialized in just one thing and they do just this thing.
Flame cutters they can cut a hole enough straight to look like drilled .
There were others who had the ability to oxyacetylene welding.
Welders who as said up above , they can just weld , if seen doing something else they are not supposed to do they are immediately fired .
He told me about the fact that it was done to maintain the standard , and musclear abilities.
They were not even allowed to chip off the slag.
If was required to drill a hole within a tolerance, they called a machinist to make the drilled hole .
Fabricators were called to prep and tack parts together
Many times not even tack , operations done by the welder.
Engineer is a professional qualification like Doctor, solicitor, barrister, architect etc
But it in the Uk it is not a protected designation sadly.
Anyone with a toolbox can call themselves an engineer
As a very good engineer friend of mine says:
“What’s the difference between an engineer and a technician ?
Maths !
The thing is when those other professions get things wrong, generally it only has financial implications and consequences (dr might kill a person, granted)
When engineers get things wrong, lots of people die
Trains derail, aircraft fall out of the sky, bridges or buildings collapse, power plants explode
The stuff we put our name to and designs we sign off on, kill people if we don’t get it right.
That’s what people don’t appreciate, and it’s a travesty that “Engineer” is not a protected term.
But it in the Uk it is not a protected designation sadly.
Anyone with a toolbox can call themselves an engineer
As a very good engineer friend of mine says:
“What’s the difference between an engineer and a technician ?
Maths !
The thing is when those other professions get things wrong, generally it only has financial implications and consequences (dr might kill a person, granted)
When engineers get things wrong, lots of people die
Trains derail, aircraft fall out of the sky, bridges or buildings collapse, power plants explode
The stuff we put our name to and designs we sign off on, kill people if we don’t get it right.
That’s what people don’t appreciate, and it’s a travesty that “Engineer” is not a protected term.
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When a doctor or a nurse that can’t count a dose right it’s how it is but a engineer goes to prison if they mess upEngineer is a professional qualification like Doctor, solicitor, barrister, architect etc
But it in the Uk it is not a protected designation sadly.
Anyone with a toolbox can call themselves an engineer
As a very good engineer friend of mine says:
“What’s the difference between an engineer and a technician ?
Maths !
The thing is when those other professions get things wrong, generally it only has financial implications and consequences (dr might kill a person, granted)
When engineers get things wrong, lots of people die
Trains derail, aircraft fall out of the sky, bridges or buildings collapse, power plants explode
The stuff we put our name to and designs we sign off on, kill people if we don’t get it right.
That’s what people don’t appreciate, and it’s a travesty that “Engineer” is not a protected term.
