Like most jobs, mine can get tedious and, yes, a bit boring.
What to do? What to do?
Get creative. Have some fun!
My job entails much crushing and pulverizing of ore samples for x-Ray fluorescence assay. Hence, my own, personal, pulverizer!
A little while ago, I was watching my pulverizer pulverise (akin to watching paint dry), and thought, "you know, they pulverize peanuts to make peanut butter.", and I was off!
I bought a jar of dry roasted nuts, took them to work on a weekend, and got down to business.
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The pulverizer-a BICO vibrating unit that uses a steel bowl with steel rings and puck.
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Approximately 100g of nuts loaded.
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After about 40 seconds of intense vibration at about 900 rpm, 81gr of peanutty goodness!
So, pulverizer-$8200.00, steel bowl & rings-$2022.00, peanuts-$1.00 (dollar store!) = $1.56/gr, or approximately $638.00/lb. to recoup initial cost.
I'll begin taking orders next week.
I'll add honey for 10¢.