Sorters? Wax?

[EAMexception]

I never did this position but if the sup doesn't give you what you need couldn't you just keep stopping the belt to piss off the sup?

That is an option, but a more sensible one would be to talk to your shop steward, that's why we pay union dues. Make them work for it.

 

[HubBub]

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lol, thats the good stuff right there. There should be a station with a tapped 5 gallon bucket of that stuff combined with a water hose that dilutes it. When I was a pickoff, I'd fill several bottles with just the pure wax and no water and stash them somewhere. I'd dole it out to the other pickoffs like some sort of Robin Hood.

If the wax:water ratio is wrong it just makes the chutes even stickier and ends up being counter-productive. But the undiluted stuff will last the entire sort and make your life much much easier.

PS: Having to stop the belt to push a chute or break a jam means more hours for you which means more money for you. If management can't figure out that a small investment in lube equals a big return in production, then they take the hit while you make more money.

PPS: problems like this make me miss working in the hub.

 

[oldngray]

They are saving the lube for other uses.

 

[PT Car Washer]

They are saving the lube for other uses.

Pre sort meeting?

 

[oldngray]

Pre sort meeting?

Or Friday conference calls?

 

[brownsugar]

Sometimes they line chutes & slides with this black plastic stuff called Durasurf. Ask ur PE person.

 

[ResetWestPreload]

I wish my building had sorter positions, the robots took our jobs. I'd love an extra dollar an hour.

The wax works TOO well here. Sixty pound box down an over-waxed chute.... get the friend out the way.

Put it label down and it won't slide back your way

 

[Pickles]

Spit on it.

 

[brown bomber]

bleedinbrown58
pick a cheek..and kiss it
We covet wax bottles like a precious commodity here...otherwise people take them

like said in the past always use approved lube

 

[brown bomber]

You have tape

there should still be several rolls of tape, and a tapegun in my locker........but according to what I've recently found out, after 5 yrs. someone has emptied and claimed "MY" locker

 

[tacken]

Wax on Wax off!!!!!

 

[Number24]

Hey, to the sorters out there. What do you use to keep the shoots/slides slick so the packages just zip down. I don't know how other building are set up but ours is old with metal shoots. Where the loads separate. There is a metal flat piece right before the slides. I sort on a belt with 5 different load. We have wax in a spray bottle that is mixed with water and is crap. I have tried wd40 but its to expensive to use all the time. Anybody out there find something that works good. Half way through the night the boxes get harder to push as the slides get the spray wax off. It causes to get tired quicker/ fall-ins, belt turning off. Anyway thanks!

Ever go slide down a slide as a kid? Now just replace yourself with a box. Never heard of putting a wax on sort sliders or wd40...

 

[GetTacosOrDieTrying]

Chutes are rarely waxed in the sort area i'm in. Omaha steak loads just love sticking and jamming up chutes.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

Chutes are rarely waxed in the sort area i'm in. Omaha steak loads just love sticking and jamming up chutes.

I like to read the labels on those packages to see what the customer has ordered. The food is good but unless you have a coupon it is awfully expensive.

 

[TooTechie]

And you bumped this why?

 

[GetTacosOrDieTrying]

I like to read the labels on those packages to see what the customer has ordered. The food is good but unless you have a coupon it is awfully expensive.

I do the same if I have a slow unloader. I want to try out some oftheir stuff. Do they give ups employees discounts?

 

[UnconTROLLed]

Douse and splash is faster and more effective than spraying, with wax bottles. Just watch out for those fingers if the slide is empty..

 

[GetTacosOrDieTrying]

Also watch out for pee bottles the driver forget to remove from totes then put them on the metro belt that goes to slide.

 

[Catatonic]

Most do not even shave under their arms much less wax.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

I do the same if I have a slow unloader. I want to try out some oftheir stuff. Do they give ups employees discounts?

Yes but it is only 10%. You can do much better than that by Googling "Omaha Steaks coupon codes".