Thread: What are you working on?

Originally Posted by Gasman

The sandpaper scratching the brass for grip seems like something i should have thought about.

Hopefully you de-greased both sides well enough to allow enough grip, but as said, roughing up both surfaces would have added some extra points to adhere to.

Keep us posted about how they behave or misbehave.

One of my shop teachers told us never play raygun with a hand drill.

None of us had thought of doing that until then..............

That was close to 50 years ago and I still point a drill in the shop and tell people not to do that. With the built in lights now a days it adds more effect for the ray gun!

Tim, I just thought it was standard practise for boys of all ages to pretend everything that is not a gun, but gun shaped was to be wielded as a gun when not in use.

Very good point.

I was raised that guns were very useful but dangerous tools, the same with a hand drill.

You don't use these tools but for their intended purpose.

That being said I remember at least in my mind a few epic battles being fought with itch weed. There were large stands and after pulling them from the ground we would break them around 1 ft from the root clump and toss them at each other like German grenades.

Although my brother was covered with blisters from the reaction to the itch weed one time I don't remember any permanent injuries from that....

When I started in the oil field they told me if I was on the rig floor and the driller sat a stand of drill collars(9000 lbs) on my foot not to ask him to pick it up.

Just step back!

I was on a drill rig once and I stuck my head where it shouldn't have been.

In hind sight i think that the operator took my hard hat off on purpose to let me know that it didn't belong.....

Either that or I was lucky.

In the south we used magnolia cones for grenades. They look very much like a pineapple grenade anyway. You snap the stem off the top like pulling the pin and then throw it and of course make the explosion sound with your mouth. I don't trust a boy who doesn't pick up pointy things and pretend they're a gun. That's just unnatural.

Sorry for my influence but we should get back on topic.

Now I have to look up Magnolia cones.................

Originally Posted by AlanQ

That hurts just reading about it!

The incident is deeply etched into my memory banks. As was the rest of my classmates.

Its the first thing that comes to mind, every time I see a table saw.

Originally Posted by 32t

Sorry for my influence but we should get back on topic.

Now I have to look up Magnolia cones.................

The top half of the stem breaks off like it's sectioned. Makes for great pretend pin pulling.