[Unrepentant VN Vet]

...pondering the manufacturing holes...

I'll just suggest a HOLE that I've been workin' around for most of the last thirty years.

Metal treatment and distribution warehouses. "Treatment" to include heat treat/induction hardening, surface grinding and (the big bugaboo with EPA) metal finishing.

Over the years, EPA's dictums have made me sometimes feel as though I was trying to design/build a piece of machinery with materials and methods of manufacture from the damn Stone Age.

(Okay, plastics can replace metals....I've done it, too. Sometimes..you..just..gotta..have..some..real..meat.)

[stylin19a]

Metal treatment and distribution warehouses. "Treatment" to include heat treat/induction hardening, surface grinding and (the big bugaboo with EPA) metal finishing.

Friend of mine did this for a living. I worked, for a short while, at the factory he worked at. His work attire was a hard rubber apron\boots and gloves - mostly no mask though sometimes he wore what looked like a welders mask. Mostly heat and chemical treating of metal parts made for autos and airplanes.

He was a young man when he died and nobody talked much about what he died from or whether his job contributed to his early demise. When asked, the subject got changed...

[stylin19a]

Metal treatment and distribution warehouses. "Treatment" to include heat treat/induction hardening, surface grinding and (the big bugaboo with EPA) metal finishing.

Friend of mine did this for a living. I worked, for a short while, at the factory he worked at. His work attire was a hard rubber apron\boots and gloves - mostly no mask though sometimes he wore what looked like a welders mask. Mostly heat and chemical treating of metal parts made for autos and airplanes.

He was a young man when he died and nobody talked much about what he died from or whether his job contributed to his early demise. When asked, the subject got changed...