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This is a good book. The uglys electrical is good. For YouTube “ave” or “this old tony.” He’s more of a machinist though. For ave look at his older stuff. He takes apart valves and stuff. Lots of good welding videos out there. “The engineering mindset” is a great Chanel for electrical work.
Exactly what I was thinking. These
I use this Klein tool bag I work in a 175,000 sq ft structural steel facility for context. I made a divider for the bottom out of cut up PVC fence planks to keep it from turning into a pit of despair. The guys I work with use the husky ones with a similar setup in the bottom.
This thing is a real life saver:
https://www.amazon.com/Titan-Tools-11212-10-Piece-Driver/dp/B00SQ4FN1I
The smallness and the flex head let’s it fit in literally ANY tight spot. Get a hex shank 1/4” socket adapter too. Going off that. Adapters, extensions, and flex head attachments for your socket set.
I don't know what your background is, but things like that are (as fucking cliche as it sounds) training opportunities.
The way I like to do things is if I have a new guy, he is required to think from day 1. I will give out random facts, but I will connect that fact to the subject we're learning today. This broadens the scope of the new guy to see how his job is indirectly connected to another's.
With the prox, the best opportunity there would have been for the team to then split, and someone determines with certainty that what you've said isn't the fix... and WHY.
I'm not saying you're a super-star, but it sounds like to me you're around a bunch of knuckle-draggers. Which can be good and bad... and more of the bad. I say this because I once was a mechanic, I'm now a controls engineer working with PLCs. I've been there and seen it, and certain attitudes don't have any place at running machines as they should. Be that as it may...
I don't know if you're in a union shop, but for proxes, carry around a 6" scale. I formed a sheath out of some stainless steel shim stock and carry a fowler with metric and SAE on it for the past 6yrs. It's .4mm thick, it's got .5mm carnal points on it, I magnatized one end and the zero-side has sharp corners for checking square while I leave the larger measured side dulled for scraping glue/junk/etc. I tape the sheath to a moleskin notebook and write down tons.
Just my $.02 to help you along while you deal with whatever you're having to deal with. Here's a link for a mitutoyo. It'll last you long enough to get some good footing in your career if you want to push yourself.
Cable jacket stripper. A little pricey, but damn is it handy to have. I've used it on everything from 4 wire prox cable up to heavily insulated 480 cord.
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