Still plugging away as a wage slave, have not been fired yet but suspect it has come close, Close to quitting anyway. New service manager hired last week, can't say it was a good thing, better if the position was not filled.
 On a brighter note another great low voltage DC motor of industrial quality came home with me. I wish I could post pictures of some of these motors when I have them apart. Brushed DC motors are a mature technology being replaced by brushless but some of these DC brushed motors (the industrial quality ones) are just a pleasure to work on, and construction is first rate.
This last one was in service for 8 years until the bearings started going and caused the breaker to trip. The company just replaced the motor of course (4 figures) that's how I got it. The brush wear was so little I did not even have to replace them, just the bearings for about 25 bucks.
So I added another 0 to 48 ish volt DC motor to my collection. I was lacking low volt DC motors in my tickle trunk, had plenty of 90 volts to 200ish Dc volts motors from my previous working life but not so much low voltage DC motors of quality and power. More motors coming my way next week as the other guy's will start saving the motors they change out for me.