Oct 25

Today my bay coworker was walking away from the sink with an empty cassette and hit it against the sink wall accidentally and it slipped out of his hands, dropping it. The cassette did a pretty awesome “open book pelvis split”. He has never seen this happen and neither had I. He took it down to the cassette cleaning room where they clean and dispose of broken cassettes. The cleaning lady says it happens nearly daily and had a big pile of broken cassettes.
Also today I loaded 49 Ash and when I put the cassette down on the sensor and the ball bearing rolled out from under the platform and into a small hole. I thought about grabbing it but the door was already starting to close. So… no! Then I went to tell my bay coworker because I didn’t know if it was important. As I was telling him he said “it must have been as the machine just signed itself down”. When the maintenance man came he told him about the ball bearing. The man fixed it and made a comment on our program that it had broken off a sensor. It had been an interesting day and it was all before 8:30. The rest of the day was SLOW. Maybe 6 lots an hour. (on a usual quicker day we could do at least 50 lots an hour)