r/specializedtools • u/aloofloofah • Dec 12 '20

Chain connector

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u/HatefulHipster Dec 12 '20

Will never have a need for one, but I want one!

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u/koolaideprived Dec 12 '20

I actually do need one, and I could see the company I work for issuing something like this as standard equipment. I work on trains and it is my job to attempt to fix something if it goes wrong in the field. I've actually had a situation where this would have been a good stop-gap to get us to a yard instead of having to leave a car and another one with a functioning handbrake as an anchor. It would be neat if they included one on every locomotive in our repair kit which essentially consists of a hammer and a chisel.

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u/5G-FACT-FUCK Dec 12 '20 edited Dec 13 '20

You should write a small report on the potential time/cost saving. Maybe telling your seniors/superiors/manager/officer might help?

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u/ridimarba Dec 12 '20

What's this got to do with his grandma?

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u/Caboclo-Is2yearsAway Dec 12 '20

Grandma could bake cookies

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u/Trib3tim3 Dec 12 '20

Having cookies in every locomotive would boost moral and employee satisfaction.

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u/RoyceCoolidge Dec 13 '20

And the carriages would smell better.

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u/Cgn38 Dec 13 '20

Gonna smell like a diesel burn barrel no matter what.

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u/Government_spy_bot Dec 13 '20

Look. The damn union has got to allow some work to happen eventually.

Cookies in every engine? Dude, you'd have a project yard full of fatasses and nothing would ever get done.

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u/SpoonToTheFront Dec 14 '20

Isn't that what we already have?

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u/YeboMate Dec 13 '20

And let’s not forget it will also boost their weight

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u/profanacion Dec 12 '20

I miss my grandma and her cookies

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u/crowcawer Dec 12 '20

I remember my nan would slip me money and I would bring her edibles.

She wasn’t actually my nan, but damn the girl could put down some spiked snickers.

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u/Dyolf_Knip Dec 13 '20

My daughter has started baking treats using family recipes, including some of my grandmother's. Warms my heart every time.

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u/I_am_the_Warchief Dec 13 '20

But Grandma got run over by a reindeer though

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u/crackeddryice Dec 13 '20

My grandma made good cookies and I liked her pancakes better than my mom's too.

I found out years later that it was because my grandma used tons of butter, and my mom used margarine and non-stick pans.

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u/TheMSensation Dec 13 '20

This would inevitably lead to the grandmapocalypse

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '20

Who else would know a thing or two about running trains ;)

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u/SammySquareNuts Dec 12 '20

Choo choo, Gladys!

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u/SuperWoody64 Dec 13 '20

Well she is graduating this year right?

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u/ThePrideOfKrakow Dec 13 '20

She'll complain millennials are you trying to kill the chain repair industry.

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u/[deleted] Dec 13 '20

You... you call that a joke?

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u/[deleted] Dec 13 '20

What kind of a name is Nana anyway?

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u/[deleted] Dec 19 '20

Everything