Ambitious Engineering

Our workshop is over at Plot No. 812. It’s just a regular industrial plot where we do various types of engineering work. The name we picked might sound a bit grand, but the reality is just a few of us working with old lathes and milling machines. We spend most of our time looking at sketches on scraps of paper and trying to make pieces of metal fit together exactly right. There is always that distinct smell of cutting oil and burnt metal in the air here. Sometimes a machine breaks down and we have to spend hours taking it apart and fixing it ourselves before we can get back to our actual jobs. That’s just part of how things go in a shop like this. We don’t get many visitors, mostly just people dropping off a piece of iron that needs a specific hole bored or a new thread cut into it. The concrete floor is stained with oil and has seen better days, but it serves its purpose. We keep our wrenches and calipers on the wall so they don't get buried under the metal shavings. It is pretty quiet here when the motors aren't running, but that doesn't happen very often. We try to finish things on time, even when the work turns out to be more complicated than we first thought. It is just steady, practical work that we’ve been doing for years.