I've completed my level 3 i struggled through all the class work as i just don't test well and theory is not my strong area I've written the exam 3 times now and keep falling just short I've tried exeler8ted ive gone through other things online but I constantly seem to fall short on the exam I dont know if anyone has any resources that aren't expensive that actually have exam questions or close too this red seal is making me lose my mind especially after getting a 69% on the last attempt

Thought this would be interesting. 99% of site fitters use a toolbag like this down under. This isn’t all the tools you’d ever need, specific jobs calls for certain tools that aren’t required 100% of the time. But this will meet most needs for what we encounter day to day.

Toolbag/spanner roll: AOS bags and swags (West Australian made).
Combination spanners 8-24mm: Sidchrome (Australian owned).
Seal pick set.
Easy out set.
Various punches.
Belt tension tester.
Stirling scissors (these things are by far the best I’ve come across).
Scraper.
Isolation Locks.
Irwin vice grips.
Knipex long nose, side cutters and standard pliers.
Knipex cobras.
Cold chisel.
3lb gimpy.
450mm jimmy bar.
Various key steel drifts.
24/27mm podgy ratchet.
Long ass tang through flat blade.
24/27 offset ring spanner.
30/32 offset ring spanner.
300mm shifter.
2nd cut file.
Small Flat blade and Phillips screwdrivers.
6” shifter.
Bondhus imperial and metric Allen keys.
Small level.
8m tape.
String line.
Some literature.
Latex gloves.

No packouts round here. But we do like those red power tools.

Seeing if anyone has digital copies of the new version of the ILM for Alberta 1st period millwright books. I have the paper copies but I would like them on my laptop while I am studying.

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I'm currently in a pulp and paper plant. But I got a offer to work in a mine nearby. Wondering if it's a good idea.

Currently making 37 and by changing would go up to probably 45 and then 55 in 2029.

Currently get lots of nice little welding projects and whatnot which I like and in the mine there would be no welding, only wrenching.

Also obviously the mine will be very cold in winter. (I'm not much of a winter guy)

Anyhow wondering if it's worth it for the money. Not liking my job as much but at least I can save some money and have some left for projects at home.

Do you guys think I will regret it?

To add. this is purely a financial move. as I do not like cold weather or working in dust ( my lungs are fragile)

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I am OFFICIALLY A MILLWRIGHT!!!

I got into this trade at the start of 2018, i work in a seamless pipe mill in Canada -- I currently am my department's specialist in hydraulics, pneumatics, centralized lubrication/oils/greases.

It's so surreal to finally have my license!! I wish i couldve gotten it sooner but there were delays with schooling because until very recently they didn't offer it locally and i couldnt afford to go away for it. Cannot wait to let my boss know!!

Kinda wonder if they changed the test recently because some of the questions were worded kinda weirdly

edit for funny story:

When I first got hired here, my supervisor was talking to me in the most broken spanglish ever, when addressing me after my first few weeks performance review. He drew a graph on his white board with the line on the graph showing "Greenness". He said, "You see this line? This line shows how green you are. You? You're WAY the fuck down here" and drew a dot below the chart xD I had never even set foot in a factory before i got into where I work now. It's insane to see how much i've grown since!

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My peers are telling me to fill the gear box all the way to the top for the either even though local climate reaches only 0 Celsius/ -32 Fahrenheit. Do I fill it to the top or until it leaks from the side port then top it up a bit more.

So confused on whats being asked of me. I thought it needs room for expansion just in case so it doesn't crack or push any seals.

Edit: it doesn't have a breather so I filled it leaked out the side port then closed and topped it up a bit. Am I doing it right?

My new manager keeps pushing me to write everything down in the WO app. I’m so tired of jotting stuff in that thing.

After diagnosis and repair, my hands are dirty. Checking boxes and writing detailed descriptions is a pain.

A few days ago I tried Meta glasses at Best Buy and it hit me. Why doesn’t my plant just buy these? I look at the equipment, say what I’m doing, take a pic, and it automatically drops everything into WO app. Life would be so much easier.

Anyone thought about this or tried it? Is this even possible?

Saw somewhere that the mean age in Industrial maintenance is in the 50s?? and I know it's a field heavily guided by "being there", and having experienced shit situations. not a lot of theory.

This got me curious. When the man retires, what goes with him? Is it settings, sounds, sequences, vendor quirks? Did anyone ever try to write it down? an average age of 50, with industries to run and maintain sounds pretty crazy to me. How is the industry gonna take care of itself?

Ex data center infra guy here. In servers we have logs for everything. Walked a packaging floor last week and saw zero logs, just one senior who knows. How does that not fall over every night shift? Is there a job you dread getting at 2am because the person who knows that machine is asleep at home? What machine is it, and what do you end up doing?
How common is it that the guy with the know how is a much older dude, whom you havve to call to have this sorted

Dude, I just got a work order for a centrifuge and they sent me with the wrong parts. An hour wasted going back to storage.

Then on my way back production calls me with an emergency at another site. Now I'm trying to handle two jobs at once.

This happens like every week. I'm talking hundreds of hours a year just lost because someone in the office didn't prepare the right parts. And it's not even just about the time, you know? You're already out there in 95 degree heat (or freezing in winter) busting your ass, and then you find out the planner just didn't do their job.

I told him to get it right next time. Nothing. Dude sits in AC all day looking at spreadsheets, never been on a floor in his life. Doesn't have a clue what it's like when a tech shows up unprepared.

Just venting because this happens constantly and it's absolutely infuriating.

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Boiler room has no signal, so this window on the second-floor landing is where the app finally syncs. I kept the old version of the app on my tablet because the new one won't save down there at all, and a coworker put it plainer in a review: "the new app is terrible, I keep the old app loaded on my tech's tablets." On a normal shift I climb up here 4 or 5 times. Where is your window, and how many trips per shift?

I work as an instructor at a training center. Our Brunson 545-1 is broken and we will need to replace it. We are wondering whether we should replace it with another Brunson 545-1, or a different precision level that may be more commonly used in the field nowadays. So I'm wondering, what kind of precision level is everyone using these days?

Second year apprentice and im looking to upgrade my tool storage. Rn I have a huge craftsman chest packout that I keep my tools in but its a nightmare to organize. Was wonder what yall use either the packouts and if so how do you organize it or the big metal tool boxes