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Showerthought: The new guy tried to cool a mold with a garden hose
About three summers ago, we had a trainee named Dave who was convinced he could speed up the process. He saw a hot sand mold sitting on the floor and ran to grab a garden hose from the yard. He got about two seconds of spray on it before the steam explosion sounded like a cannon and covered him in wet sand. The foreman just walked over, looked at the mess, and said, 'Son, that's why we use time, not water.' Dave spent the rest of the shift sweeping. Anyone else have a story about a well-meaning but disastrous shortcut someone tried?
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lisa_brown23h ago
But honestly, can we blame him for trying? Sometimes the old way of doing things is just too slow, and a little creative problem solving moves the whole industry forward. If nobody ever tried shortcuts, we'd never have innovations. Maybe his method was wrong, but the desire to improve a boring wait time is how progress happens. What if he had just used less water or a different spray pattern?
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