We start at 4pm and day shift leaves promptly afterward.  A few people stay till 6...but by 8 ....it gets real quiet despite the machines echoing through the building.  pneumatic and hydraulic pumps...electric motors whirring...steel bars rattling in tubes rotating at 2000rpm...the clang thud slam as the AcmeGridley automatic screw machines spindles rotate into the next position like a giant slow moving 30,000lb Gatlin gun.

From right to left: Fred Stassir, the back of Curt Nixons head, and the criminals declined to be photographed.
when I first started it was just Curt and Fred aka"Bad Ass Mother Fucker" ... I call him that because he has two bad knees, has had two hip replacement surgeries, is a Veitnam vet, and works 5 twelve hour days a week lifting steel rods and wrenching on these machines.