# new from schenectady

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**Created:** [January 19, 2011, 11:29pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-from-schenectady/256525 "2011-01-19T23:29:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![AUDI\_JAY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/898d66/32.png) [@AUDI\_JAY](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/AUDI_JAY)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2011, 12:28pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-from-schenectady/256525/931 "2011-01-25T12:28:25Z")

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> [@need help: lifting my jimmy](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/need-help-lifting-my-jimmy/38707/18):
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> No but I used to hang out with the shop floor guys and the engineers and shoot the shit and check out how they make the stuff. Machine work was cool there too. in 66 the building I was in, they had a bunch of cool machinist’s I used to hang out with.
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> they built the pieces, they didnt install them on site! lol BUT the turbines, and the parts are HUGE in real life. Watching them sling dont know howmany ton billet steel blanks they machine down 20 feet in the air off the shop floor was crazy! The hunks of steel are like 15 feet in DIA and about 25 feet long!
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> Some cool shit there.
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> Speaking of which, I wonder if Obama walked around the shopfloor and liked the nudie pics and shit guys had posted on their computers, work areas and tool boxes! lol

I am sure obama thought to himself about smooshing a few.:lol

btw this is sorta what i was thinking when it comes to working on turbines etc.

[![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEK4NZ7zhfA)

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