Work

It's nice to be handed a blueprint for something friendly and familiar.  A piston!  The aluminum stock shown here will be lathe cut into a huge piston for some kind of diesel prototype. Here, I'm milling the fixture to hold them in the lathe.

Sometimes at work...

...I get to mill a keyway on one of these, and I like it. In the fantasy version, I'm wearing a flat cap and smoking a Lucky, and my boss is dead.

means of production

This is a nice drill press I use often. It's about 9 feet tall. Leland Gifford double spindle, probably from the '50s.