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Old 07-04-2021, 8:42pm   #1
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Default National Bureau of Standards swag

Paging Tom Armstrong.

Before it was NIST, it was NBS. In 1976 they had an open house and passed out some swag. My Dad ended up with this little treasure. It’s aluminum.
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Old 07-04-2021, 9:27pm   #2
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I probably have some NBS stuff somewhere.
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Cool pieces. I remember all the bicentenial logo themed stuff. I'm surprised I haven't come across any of it so far going through Mom and Dad's house so far. Surely they would have kept some of it for memorabilia... they kept everything else.
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In 1976 is when I started to get into metrology as a career.
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In 1976 is when I started to get into metrology as a career.
Be careful. Most folks on here will now ask you for weather reports.
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Be careful. Most folks on here will now ask you for weather reports.
Depends on witch way the wind blows.......
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That’s pretty cool. Oh, because I know you know DAB, NIST is selling our NIKE site. Should bring between $5-15M.
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Nah, just SNV.
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In 1976 is when I started to get into metrology as a career.
I wasn't even a filthy thought in my parents' minds until 1977
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Metrology - the science of measurement

for those that don't know.
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Metrology - the science of measurement

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Possibly the worst "conversion" I ever went through at our company was going from almost none, to a verifiable and validated metrology program. We had thousands of measuring instruments that needed both a written process and record keeping. Took two years and countless hours to get back to just being able to keep a straight face.
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Possibly the worst "conversion" I ever went through at our company was going from almost none, to a verifiable and validated metrology program. We had thousands of measuring instruments that needed both a written process and record keeping. Took two years and countless hours to get back to just being able to keep a straight face.
Yep! Been there and done that. We had custom software we used and created ourselves using Dbase 3/4. We had it all documented each component and how it worked. Auditor did not like it and we were forced to use a commercial program. Then came having documented procedures, which we did have on a local drive, all created by me, but the auditor was not happy about that so we had to have them go through our document control department.

Right before I retired in May 2020, my last project was getting ALL of our calibration procedures updated to the latest template, and having verbiage about TIME measurements. This project took me almost a year to complete. Again, due to an auditor not happy with our procedures. Hell, even the Maintenance and Equipment departments had to revamp their procedures just for this auditor.

I'm so happy I don't have to deal with that crap anymore.
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76 was a good year for me. I graduated high school.
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