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Jesse,

Thanks for the tour. Saw a lot of Wright goodness in there !! And some wrench sizes a little bigger than the typical automotive box.

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Don't have photos, but the box still exists in his son's garage. A relative spent forty years as a millright at US Steel in Fairfield, AL. He worked out of a seven drawer machinist's box. He had a 6" Starrett scale, a 1" micrometer; the rest he did with inside and outside calipers, a few punches, chisels, couple of crescent wrenches, small ball pein hammer; you wouldn't give $25 for everything, but he did the job and raised a family on the paycheck

Oh, yes, he kept a .25 cal automatic in there. Today's guys have no idea what a factory floor was like back in the bad old days.

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All the milwright here at work have pretty much craftsman 26" combos and normally work out of tool bags.
 
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My ATD 70401 and my pocket tools on top, currently working in a Food Facility where we make Bacon. Sorry for upside down photos, something is wrong with my camera.











 
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Bacon Man said:
My ATD 70401 and my pocket tools on top, currently working in a Food Facility where we make Bacon. Sorry for upside down photos, something is wrong with my camera.











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Like the Setup, see your rocking the wiha screwdrievers aswell.

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Looks like a well organized setup, but what happened to the dynamic jaw of that poor vise?
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Not sure just picked that up the other day at the swap meet across the street on my lunch and gave it a quick once over with the sand blaster and some paint, figured couldn't complain for ten bucks.

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What do you classify as a millwright?


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A Tradesmen who installs industrial equipment (rigging, occasionally running services, leveling, test running/dialing in), Maintains equipment, welds, Fabricates, alignments. really the list could go on forever but the above are my bread and butter.

Packard V8 said:
Don't have photos, but the box still exists in his son's garage. A relative spent forty years as a millright at US Steel in Fairfield, AL. He worked out of a seven drawer machinist's box. He had a 6" Starrett scale, a 1" micrometer; the rest he did with inside and outside calipers, a few punches, chisels, couple of crescent wrenches, small ball pein hammer; you wouldn't give $25 for everything, but he did the job and raised a family on the paycheck

Oh, yes, he kept a .25 cal automatic in there. Today's guys have no idea what a factory floor was like back in the bad old days.

jack vines
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:beer: Sounds allot like my mentor when I first started out.
 
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Man do you guys do any work with those tools or did you just happen to get new ones? Look awfully nice to be in the same trade as me

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Millwright is an umbrella term. Can be someone that does installation, rigging, or maintenance, all the same.

I work in a food facility, it's a very clean environment for the most part. Mainly battling rust due to the fact that everything is wet.
 
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The millwrights we use here at work travel around. They all have small boxes with 3 drawers. Craftsman, Viper and Husky.
 
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TheCraneGuy said:
Isn’t that what an industrial maintenance technician does?


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The difference is that a millwright is an actual tradesperson. "Maintenance technician" is what a plant calls their guys when they are too cheap to support apprenticeship programs and/or pay the wages that a millwright (or industrial mechanic) costs.
 
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Millwrong said:
The difference is that a millwright is an actual tradesperson. "Maintenance technician" is what a plant calls their guys when they are too cheap to support apprenticeship programs and/or pay the wages that a millwright (or industrial mechanic) costs.
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It just matters, all places are differant. Last place I worked we were considered GMM's(general maintenance mechanic). But we dealt with everything in the plant from vfds, plc, robots, machining and fabricating replacement parts,welder, pipe fitter, basically we did It all, and if there was an issue and we were at a dead end trouble shooting then we would call in our "maintenance tech" who would hopefully give us some insight and help solve the issue. We had one tech and 5 gmm's per shift. The steel mill I work at now there's millwrights, electricians, iron workers, technicians etc. I'm an electrician and while I thought it would be a big relief of only having to worry about electrical instead of being a jack of all trades I was wrong. I'd go back to being a gmm anyday if it wasn't for the over the top pay and benefits of the steel mill. Nobody does apprenticships anymore hardly, all these companies didn't think ahead and realize that hey all these baby boomers with 30+ years of experience in the plant are going to all retire within a 5-10 year period. Now the companies are running around like a headless chicken trying to play catch up and just throwing guys with no credentials in the same position with the same pay that somebody with 30 years experience was doing. And then wondering why there maintenance department is going to ****, which is the backbone of all manufactures even though we're considered the opposite from the plant managers and upper half.

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Millwrong said:
The difference is that a millwright is an actual tradesperson. "Maintenance technician" is what a plant calls their guys when they are too cheap to support apprenticeship programs and/or pay the wages that a millwright (or industrial mechanic) costs.
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So because there isn’t a union, I’m not a millwright?


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OP, thanks much for the thread and tour. Your box is 10 times more interesting than, say, one belonging to a Nissan tech, to me anyway, and I could work up some serious jealousy for your job.

I'm in MILL country, lumber Mills and plywood Mills, and the literal millwrights are non-union.
 
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My grandfather was a millwright and master machinist at American Brass in Kenosha, WI. for decades. He had a Gerstner box full of his precision tools and, yes, a nickel .25 cal automatic in the bottom drawer. He also had a pocket full of little brass tool crib tokens. The plant had a big tool crib with every imaginable tool in it. Employees weren't expected to provide their own tools back in the day except for precision stuff that could be easily wrecked by multiple users.
 
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wyattrose69 said:
Man do you guys do any work with those tools or did you just happen to get new ones? Look awfully nice to be in the same trade as me


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I find it fairly easy to wipe down my tools before they go back in my box, nothing worse then getting a handful of grease before even touching the equipment you will be working on. I also work in a ISO Medical Device Manufacturing Facility if something is damaged or "looks ratty" off it goes to my box at home and the tool crib girl orders me a new one for "wearing it out". Not something I would normally do but my employer encourages it to keep up appearances for customers.

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The difference is that a millwright is an actual tradesperson. "Maintenance technician" is what a plant calls their guys when they are too cheap to support apprenticeship programs and/or pay the wages that a millwright (or industrial mechanic) costs.
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Luckily for me I'm in the middle of Boeing Country and was able to complete a 4 year Apprenticeship and have all my supplemental classes paid with ease, there is a real shortage of guys around here, the employer I'm with now realizes this and also has a state recognized apprenticeship program with a fairly decent number of guys in it. It's refreshing to see
 
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Not at all. A millwright is a millwright, unionized or not.
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Ok. Well, I’ve never been called a millwright, but reading all of this makes me believe I am. I have done pretty much all of the things I’ve read, installation of machinery, rebuild and repair of stationary machinery, both electrical and mechanical. Install and programming of PLCs.

I’ve done fabrication of parts and guarding, grease monkey, certified welder and HVAC. Designed and installed electrical distribution in new facilities and remodel of production facilities.

I built, installed, and torn down overhead cranes, along with being a certified inspector. I’ve managed maintenance technicians, along with training them.

My weak areas are plumbing, and machinist and CNC operations.

Jack of all trades, master of none...


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most of the plant maintenance types i see have tools and tool boxes provided by the company.

their most used tool is a flashlight so show outside mechanics/technicians what they think the problem is.

one guy i see about once a week has finally got a "handle" on swapping tires after 3 years on the job.

my apologies to any real plant maint guys/millwrights



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Roll cart, just the stuff I use everyday, have a gang box and a Durham cabinet with my less used junk


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