Occupation?

I think I have one of the best jobs a car guy could want. By trade I'm a machine toolbuilder. Since 1995 I've been building metal cutting machines that do all of the cylinder block machining starting out with a almost raw casting and when it's finished you have a finished cylinder block ready for the honing machines. When you're done assembling this massive transfer machine or machining centers you get to run them off for the customer to prove that they pass a capability run for quality. Some of these machines are 100 feet long and have several stations that do different operations. The finish machines are pretty amazing. Finished crank bores are held .012 microns in diameter and straight within .015 microns from front to rear. Some of these machines produce a engine block every 23 seconds. A typical block line might have 10 transfer machines to take the block from rough to finish. Last year I join Detroit Diesel Corp after working on the install of there new machining centers for a 15.0 liter block line. Each machining center cost 1 million dollars with all of the tooling. So I get to spend my day walking around a modern engine plant having a part in what makes the world move. Jayson