Whats your favourite toy at work?

I just had a 128hz thermal imaging camera delivered today which I am looking forward to trying later tonight after some food. In fact I might check the temperature of my food.

The hot water urn without shadow of a doubt

The machine in the background! Bridgeport 5-axis machining centre. Very useful for all sorts of foreigners

One of those Stealth style wrenches

I love my Leica parallel plate micrometer when put onto my Leica NA2 optical level.

0.1mm accuracy with the Invar staff, now that’s proper engineering levelling stuff.

Cock on.

the one that does this

Incinerator or gas-axe, hard to choose

Heres mine

Massive box of tools, take just about anything ever put together apart.

Boroscope.

A workshop full of bikes to play with (sorry maintain) and a mac network. Nothing fancy but I get to be BOFH, we can’t afford a PFY yet!

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thermosflask containing a superconducting magnet

Sheffield? I recognise that NMR I think i used it a few years ago…

I fix these at work and yes that is a full hybrid drive truck 😀

This is mine!

Mines bigger than yours Binners.

My work is one big toy.

I have an A1 plotter I print plans etc. out on for hydro schemes.

I go offroading in my 4×4 up the Highlands.

I get to open big valves and tinker with massive forces of nature.

I may have no pictures but I know I win this thread!

And

And shortly

What are you using to print on TheDTs?
Film or paper?
http://europe.dupontteijinfilms.com/marketspaces/imageprinting/

Mostly self adhesive vinyl.

Ahh, just wondered. I maintain the machinery that makes film for photographic applications amongst other things. They dwarf any printer 😆

I was going to say JetBrains ReSharper, but I don’t think that’s going to win this thread!

My favourite of late had been this

68 predator with 3200bhp and surface drives

Makes a rooster tail like this and does 51knts

A simple set of knippex steel fixers nips. Used for so so many jobs!

Mine used to be this

But now this

I know which one I prefer 😀

Holy shit I have big thing for boats!

And that Sunseeker is epic

FUN

This was a fun day

I get to play with these while the Navy are on their holidays!

T45 Destroyer.
Just short of Billion quid a throw – I’ve sat in the captains chair and everything!

We’ve got a set of these.

It’s kind of cool being able to lift an 8 tonne bus up in the air so you can walk underneath it.

The button that opens the doors on my way out

Tangoman, I suspect one of those toys would be more fun than the other…..

Tangoman, that’s not a toy you very naughty boy.

Apologies… I meant to put this up… I’m an ethical practitioner really.

Hic! 😉

Toyed with and drunk various playthings with work recently

Got this to shoot in a few weeks 🙂

I remember donkeys years ago getting to play with Roland large format pen plotters when they were first around. We used to marvel at the way the so-called optimisation resulted in a seemingly random series of pen movements.

Sadly I don’t get to play with anything particularly exciting these days. What impressed me most were the Zeiss glass plate camera and stereo comparators I used for photogrammetry as a student.