OT. Is there any Sapa, Alcoa or Indalex employees here?

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Pistol Mike
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OT. Is there any Sapa, Alcoa or Indalex employees here?

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Just curious since i'm a Sapa employee my self!

I'm working as a die corrector at a 3250ton 9" aluminum extrusion press at the Brogard plant in Vetlanda (Sweden).
So if there's any other die correctors here we might talk about work instead of guns and such stuff! :wink: :)
Would be nice to here how it is on your job and how you work.


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Re: OT. Is there any Sapa, Alcoa or Indalex employees here?

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BTT

I'm not but it sounds interesting.
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Re: OT. Is there any Sapa, Alcoa or Indalex employees here?

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Well... guess it's like any other job! some days are good, some are even better! :wink: :D

But to be honest i think that a "Die Corrector" is the best job you can get if you want to work on "the floor".
you have a lot of responsability and must "use your head" with both imagination and knowledge to come up with solutions (corrections) to get the dies to work. So that the profiles are what the customer ordered.


Regards Mike

Links of intrest!?
http://www.sapagroup.com/en/

Some of the die suppliers we buy our dies from
http://www.compes.it/eng/index.html
http://www.phoenix-spa.com/PAGES/profile.html
http://www.matec.be/en/default.htm
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Re: OT. Is there any Sapa, Alcoa or Indalex employees here?

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When I was a kid our next door neighbor worked for Alcoa in Maryland. I don't know what he did exactly usually he just said he was a maintenance man. I do know that a lot of the other neighbors used to say he could do anything in the plant and had done most things for at least a while. They had the first reloading set up I ever saw. The guy bought his son, who was my age a Mec shotgun loading press for his birthday. They were big time shotgun hunters.
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