No just slipper's for me or in garage those slip on foam/ plastic things, but when I heavy or or large drilling leather boots👍
Phil UK 🤗

Getting back to model boats...
Do you build your boats bare-foot in the mud? (I've seen some operate their boats here while barefoot. Haven't seen 🙈 any toe nibbling gators around lately.)

Lew
Florida 😎, USA

Lewz,

Soles cut out from old tires, you say? 🙄 They got another 5000 Km before for the wear-bar shows😉

Maybe the poor lads with bare feet could not afford the safety sandals. Unbelievable how much the straps protect the top of the feet. The non-slip soles are also helpful.
Lew
Florida ⛱️, USA

The sandals were a gift from the Roman Empire Doogle😉

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Hi Ed,
Re "... just wear flip flops in my workshop ..."
Be a bit chilly round the nether regions this time of year for that wouldn't it?❄️⛄

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Toasted cheese all round eh Nick?😋

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Hi Ross,
Yep, the lathe is CNC.
Could Not Care!🙄

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Loving the high quality sandal footwear, 🤣🤣.

I'm just off to lie down in a darkened room. 😉

Indian engineering at its best ,not did you see the slop on that key way🤣🤣🤣
Phil

Ed, I'm going to try my furnace out in bare feet....

Who needs PPE and health and safety.
They only increase production costs.

I think I am going to just wear flip flops in my workshop, even when I use machinery.


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Handraulic..

I wonder what the rate for foot injuries is in a country like that 🤕. Most with bare feet or sandals, one or two people with shoes and one with boots. Hammering the old blades with steel/iron shards flying everywhere. Hard, dirty, and unsafe jobs! Got to hand it to them though...

With those "wobbly" propellers they must have some fantastic u-joints. No Dumas "dog-bones" here!

Lew
Florida, USA

Yes insane so could someone tell me, IS THAT A CNC LATHE?

WOW!

The speed that prop was spinning for boring/facing was nuts, and no guard! Coulf easily take someone's arm it they were't carefull. As for accuracy I have watched video of huge helical geard being made with the most rudimentary measuring equipment and 100 year old British made lathes borers etc. Or how about welding two halves of an engine block together with just a stick welder and a hand held welding shield. I have seen some of them wearing safety sandals....

Hair-raising and mesmerising😮
Safety standards? What standards?
Machining accuracy? Makes you wonder if the prop was also so wibbly-wobbly out of balance on the ships they were made for.
The connection with 'World's largest ship' escapes me though.
What I have seen of propeller production (at Daewoo Shipbuilding in Geoje, South Korea) for some of the world's really large ships, such as VLCC super tankers (ca 440m LoA, 500,000+ tons DWT), also mesmerised me.
For different reasons. SHEER SIZE!! Some 7m (~23ft) diameter.
Cheers, Doug😎

Amazing and frightening!!!

Chris