The guy that works in the office next to me cut off his index finger
and severely damaged the next three fingers while cutting some siding
at home this past weekend. I had a great deal of sympathy for him
until I found out how he did it. He was cutting some siding on his
house and couldn’t get to part of it with a circular saw so he
decided to attach the blade from the circular saw on a hand grinder.
Can you imagine! Picture standing on a ladder holding an electric
motor with a shaft and a 7-1/4 inch unguarded spinning blade in one
hand! He is “lucky” he only lost one finger, that thing
could have killed him.
Why do people take chances like this?
Do you?
Do I?
It reminds me for some reason of another time when I saw a guy with a
gas motor strapped to his back with a shaft and a propeller sticking
out of it just above his head. Luckily his buddy couldn’t get
it started, or that guy would have been dead, and probably a few
others around him. Why do people take chances like this?
Scott
In article <[email protected]>, Young Carpenter
<Fiddleronroof*@*juno.com> wrote:
> I can hardly think of a 7
> 1/4" blade on a grinder a scientific experiment
I look at my grinder... I look at where the switch is on the grinder,
and where my hand is when I am ready to activate the switch... I
imagine a 7.25" blade on the grinder...
djb
--
"Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati"
He must have gone to a Texas public school. A while back while
attending a parent-teacher meeting I observed many equivalent examples
in history papers posted on a classroom bulletin board. I asked the
history teacher about it and his response was "...this ain't an English
class."
Of course when not "teaching" history he coached football, but we all
know that in Texas football is the reason high schools exist.
Phil
Edwin Pawlowski wrote:
> "charlie b" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>
>> Shallow end of the gene pool. Darwin normally
>> culls them before they reproduce but some get
>> through now and then.
>
>
> I know how to fix that. I had a job applicant yesterday. Under special
> skills part of the application he wrote that he did Genetorial work.
> Ed
>
>
The following are real answers given by children.
Q: Name the four seasons.
A: Salt, pepper, mustard and vinegar.
Q: Explain one of the processes by which water can be made safe to drink.
A: Flirtation makes water safe to drink because it removes large pollutants like
grit, sand, dead sheep and canoeists.
Q: How is dew formed?
A: The sun shines down on the leaves and makes them perspire.
Q: How can you delay milk turning sour?
A: Keep it in the cow.
Q: What causes the tides in the oceans?
A: The tides are a fight between the Earth and the Moon. All water tends to flow
towards the moon, because there is no water on the
moon, and nature hates a vacuum. I forget where the sun joins in this fight.
Q: What are steroids?
A: Things for keeping carpets still on the stairs.
Q: What happens to your body as you age?
A: When you get old, so do your bowels and you get intercontinental.
Q What happens to a boy when he reaches puberty?
A: He says good-bye to his boyhood and looks forward to his adultery.
Q: Name a major disease associated with cigarettes.
A: Premature death.
Q: What is artificial insemination?
A: When the farmer does it to the bull instead of the cow.
Q: How are the main parts of the body categorized? (e.g., abdomen.)
A: The body is consisted into three parts - the brainium, the borax and the
abdominal cavity. The brainium contains the brain; the borax
contains the heart and lungs, and the abdominal cavity contains the five bowels,
A, E, I, O, and U.
Q: What is the fibula?
A: A small lie.
Q: What does "varicose" mean?
A: Nearby.
Q: Give the meaning of the term "Caesarian Section"
A: The Caesarian Section is a district in Rome.
Q: What does the word "benign" mean?'
A: Benign is what you will be after you be eight.
Roy Smith wrote:
> In article <[email protected]>, Phil <[email protected]> wrote:
> >He must have gone to a Texas public school. A while back while
> >attending a parent-teacher meeting I observed many equivalent examples
> >in history papers posted on a classroom bulletin board. I asked the
> >history teacher about it and his response was "...this ain't an English
> >class."
>
> I found the following floating around the net a while ago. It's a
> classic:
>
> -----------------------------
> The following are supposedly genuine statements taken from history
> papers submitted last year ... enjoy!
>
> Ancient Egypt was inhabited by mummies and they all wrote in
> hydraulics. They lived in the Sarah Dessert and traveled by Camelot.
>
> Moses led the Hebrew slaves to the Red Sea, where they made unleavened
> bread which is bread without any ingredients. Moses went up on Mount
> Cyanide to get the Ten Commandos. He dies before he ever reaches
> Canada.
>
> Solomon had three hundred wives and three hundred porcupines.
>
> The Greeks also had myths. A myth is a female moth.
>
> Homer was not written by Homer but by another man of that name.
>
> Socrates was a famous Greek teacher who went around giving people
> advice. They killed him. Socrates died from an overdose of wedlock.
> After his death, his career suffered a dramatic decline.
>
> In the Olympic Games, the Greeks ran races, hurled the biscuits, and
> threw the java.
>
> Eventually the Romans conquered the Greeks. History calls people
> Romans because they never stayed in one place very long.
>
> Julius Caesar extinguished himself on the battlefields of Gaul. The
> Ides of march murdered him because they thought he was going to be
> made king. Dying, he gasped out: "Tee hee, Brutus."
>
> Finally Magna Carta provided that no man should be hanged twice for
> the same offense.
>
> In midevil times most people were alliterate. The greatest writer of
> the futile ages was Chaucer, who wrote many poems and vases and also
> wrote literature.
>
> It was an age of great inventions and discoveries. Gutenberg invented
> removable type and the Bible. Another important invention was the
> circulation of blood. And Sir Francis Drake circumcised the world
> with a 100 foot clipper.
>
> The greatest write of the Renaissance was William Shakespeare. He was
> born in the year 1564, supposedly on his birthday. He wrote
> tragedies, comedies and hysterectomies, all in Islamic pentameter.
> Romeo and Juliet are an example of a heroic couplet. Romeo's last
> wish was to be laid by Juliet.
>
> The next great author was John Milton. Milton wrote Paradise Lost.
> Then his wife died and he wrote Paradise Regained.
>
> One of the causes of the Revolutionary War was the English put tacks
> in their tea. Also, the colonists would send their parcels through
> the post without stamps. Finally the colonists won the war and no
> longer had to pay for taxis. Franklin discovered electricity by
> rubbing two cats backwards and declared "A horse divided against
> itself cannot stand." Franklin died in 1790 and is still dead.
>
> Soon the Constitution of the United States was adopted to secure
> domestic hostility. Under the constitution the people enjoyed the
> right to bare arms.
>
> Gravity was invented by Isaac Walton. It is chiefly noticeable in the
> autumn when the apples are falling off the trees.
>
> Johann Bach wrote a great many musical compositions and had a large
> number of children. In between he practised on an old spinster which
> he kept up in his attic. Handel was half German, half Italian and
> half English. He was very large.
>
> Beethoven wrote music even though he was deaf. He was so deaf he
> wrote loud music.
>
> The nineteenth century was a time of a great many thoughts and
> inventions. People stopped reproducing by hand and started
> reproducing by machine.
>
> Louis Pasteur discovered a cure for rabbis. Charles Darwin was a
> naturist who wrote Organ of the Species.
>
> The First World War, cased by the assignation of the Arch-Duck by an
> analyst, ushered in a new error in the anal of human history.
>
> Winston Churchill was king of England during the Second World War. He
> was known for many famous speeches such as "We will fight them on the
> benches." The king of Germany was Hitler who invalidated France and
> then drove down the Eiffel Tower in his tanks.
>
> The sun never set on the British Empire because the British Empire is
> in the East and the sun sets in the West.
CW wrote:
> I had a college electronics instructor that would grade you not only on
> content of your reports but also your spelling. He said (and I agree with
> him) that accurate communication is important.
I'd agree with him. I've been on Ph.D. committees and seen
dissertations submitted that were as bad as some of these examples.
None have my signature on them though.
Phil
> "Phil" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>
>>He must have gone to a Texas public school. A while back while
>>attending a parent-teacher meeting I observed many equivalent examples
>>in history papers posted on a classroom bulletin board. I asked the
>>history teacher about it and his response was "...this ain't an English
>>class."
>>
>>Of course when not "teaching" history he coached football, but we all
>>know that in Texas football is the reason high schools exist.
>>
>>Phil
>>
>>Edwin Pawlowski wrote:
>>
>>>"charlie b" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>>>news:[email protected]...
>>>
>>>
>>>> Shallow end of the gene pool. Darwin normally
>>>> culls them before they reproduce but some get
>>>> through now and then.
>>>
>>>
>>>I know how to fix that. I had a job applicant yesterday. Under special
>>>skills part of the application he wrote that he did Genetorial work.
>>>Ed
>>>
>>>
>>
>
>
Considering that is a story that should be submitted. How else could people
know to avoid him?
--
Young Carpenter
"Violin playing and Woodworking are similar, it takes plenty of money,
plenty of practice, and you usually make way more noise than intended"
"Lawrence L'Hote" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>
> "vmtw" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> > The guy that works in the office next to me cut off his index finger
> > and severely damaged the next three fingers while cutting some siding
> > hand! He is “lucky” he only lost one finger, that thing
> > could have killed him.
> >
> > Why do people take chances like this?
> > others around him. Why do people take chances like this?
> >
> > Scott
>
> ..see darwinawards.com
>
> Larry
>
>
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I think Jeff Foxworthy has a whole spiel on people who need to wear signs
saying "I'm stupid"
--
Young Carpenter
"Violin playing and Woodworking are similar, it takes plenty of money,
plenty of practice, and you usually make way more noise than intended"
"vmtw" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> The guy that works in the office next to me cut off his index finger
> and severely damaged the next three fingers while cutting some siding
> at home this past weekend. I had a great deal of sympathy for him
> until I found out how he did it. He was cutting some siding on his
> house and couldn’t get to part of it with a circular saw so he
> decided to attach the blade from the circular saw on a hand grinder.
> Can you imagine! Picture standing on a ladder holding an electric
> motor with a shaft and a 7-1/4 inch unguarded spinning blade in one
> hand! He is “lucky” he only lost one finger, that thing
> could have killed him.
>
> Why do people take chances like this?
>
> Do you?
>
> Do I?
>
> It reminds me for some reason of another time when I saw a guy with a
> gas motor strapped to his back with a shaft and a propeller sticking
> out of it just above his head. Luckily his buddy couldn’t get
> it started, or that guy would have been dead, and probably a few
> others around him. Why do people take chances like this?
>
> Scott
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In rec.woodworking
[email protected] (Doug Miller) wrote:
>In article <[email protected]>, [email protected] (vmtw) wrote:
>[snip]
>>Why do people take chances like this?
>
>Because they're stupid.
You know, I don't buy that theory, not all the time. Now the guy that lost
all his fingers trying to trim his hedges by picking up his running
lawnmower was definitely in that category but sometimes anxious beats out
stupid. So does frustration, lack of money, anger, boredom, and fatigue.
We've all gotten away with, and been bitten by stupid things like this.
I haven't gotten around to mixing the too. The neighbors might not
appreciate the added noise
--
Young Carpenter
"Violin playing and Woodworking are similar, it takes plenty of money,
plenty of practice, and you usually make way more noise than intended"
"C Wood" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>
> "Young Carpenter" <Fiddleronroof*@*juno.com> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>
> : "Violin playing and Woodworking are similar, it takes plenty of money,
> : plenty of practice, and you usually make way more noise than intended"
>
> Heh, I play the violin while the glue is drying.. :-)
>
>
>
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o cmon u cnta be seerius. I mane wat u sya is importnt nota how u say ti
--
Young Carpenter
"Violin playing and Woodworking are similar, it takes plenty of money,
plenty of practice, and you usually make way more noise than intended"
"CW" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> I had a college electronics instructor that would grade you not only on
> content of your reports but also your spelling. He said (and I agree with
> him) that accurate communication is important.
> "Phil" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> > He must have gone to a Texas public school. A while back while
> > attending a parent-teacher meeting I observed many equivalent examples
> > in history papers posted on a classroom bulletin board. I asked the
> > history teacher about it and his response was "...this ain't an English
> > class."
> >
> > Of course when not "teaching" history he coached football, but we all
> > know that in Texas football is the reason high schools exist.
> >
> > Phil
> >
> > Edwin Pawlowski wrote:
> > > "charlie b" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> > > news:[email protected]...
> > >
> > >> Shallow end of the gene pool. Darwin normally
> > >> culls them before they reproduce but some get
> > >> through now and then.
> > >
> > >
> > > I know how to fix that. I had a job applicant yesterday. Under
special
> > > skills part of the application he wrote that he did Genetorial work.
> > > Ed
> > >
> > >
> >
>
>
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At least they did something useful for humanity. I can hardly think of a 7
1/4" blade on a grinder a scientific experiment (outside of genetics).
--
Young Carpenter
"Violin playing and Woodworking are similar, it takes plenty of money,
plenty of practice, and you usually make way more noise than intended"
"charlie b" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> vmtw wrote:
>
> snip
>
> > Why do people take chances like this?
> >
> > Scott
>
> Shallow end of the gene pool. Darwin normally
> culls them before they reproduce but some get
> through now and then. On the other hand, I'm
> sure the Wright brothers were looked on with
> concern.
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have whole box of them. My Bro. in law got them as "rejects".
--
Young Carpenter
"Violin playing and Woodworking are similar, it takes plenty of money,
plenty of practice, and you usually make way more noise than intended"
"CW" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> You can get those discs in a fiberglass reinforced style. Much more
durable.
> "Lazarus Long" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> >
> > Ouch. Those'd hurt. When I replied earlier, I had in mind some thin
> > abrasive discs that are used at my employer on a Dremel. The do a
> > great job cutting sheet metal, but are as brittle as all get out.
> > They break with just a hard stare. Them little saw blades you point
> > out would do some wicked damage to flesh and not break.
>
>
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I heard it once a semester at college. Played it during white Glove on the
campus Radio station
--
Young Carpenter
"Violin playing and Woodworking are similar, it takes plenty of money,
plenty of practice, and you usually make way more noise than intended"
"Jerry Maple" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> "Young Carpenter" <Fiddleronroof*@*juno.com> wrote in
> news:[email protected]:
>
> > I think Jeff Foxworthy has a whole spiel on people who need to wear
> > signs saying "I'm stupid"
> >
>
> That was Bill Engvall (his goofy sidekick from the TV show). He came out
> with a CD a couple of years ago called "Here's Your Sign". My wife
> played that thing till it practically wore out. While it was popular,
> you couldn't listen to a country station here in Phoenix for more than
> about 10 minutes without hearing it.
>
> --
>
> Jerry Maple
> General Dynamics Decision Systems
> Scottsdale, AZ
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"charlie b" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
: vmtw wrote:
:
: snip
:
: > Why do people take chances like this?
: >
: > Scott
:
: Shallow end of the gene pool. Darwin normally
: culls them before they reproduce but some get
: through now and then. On the other hand, I'm
: sure the Wright brothers were looked on with
: concern.
Watch what you say about my great uncles.
I had a college electronics instructor that would grade you not only on
content of your reports but also your spelling. He said (and I agree with
him) that accurate communication is important.
"Phil" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> He must have gone to a Texas public school. A while back while
> attending a parent-teacher meeting I observed many equivalent examples
> in history papers posted on a classroom bulletin board. I asked the
> history teacher about it and his response was "...this ain't an English
> class."
>
> Of course when not "teaching" history he coached football, but we all
> know that in Texas football is the reason high schools exist.
>
> Phil
>
> Edwin Pawlowski wrote:
> > "charlie b" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> > news:[email protected]...
> >
> >> Shallow end of the gene pool. Darwin normally
> >> culls them before they reproduce but some get
> >> through now and then.
> >
> >
> > I know how to fix that. I had a job applicant yesterday. Under special
> > skills part of the application he wrote that he did Genetorial work.
> > Ed
> >
> >
>
"charlie b" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>
> Shallow end of the gene pool. Darwin normally
> culls them before they reproduce but some get
> through now and then.
I know how to fix that. I had a job applicant yesterday. Under special
skills part of the application he wrote that he did Genetorial work.
Ed
In article <[email protected]>,
[email protected] says...
> On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 15:28:03 GMT, "Edwin Pawlowski" <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > I had a job applicant yesterday. Under special skills part of the application he wrote that he did Genetorial work.
>
> Ah, he worked on genitals. Interesting work if you can get it ;)
>
>
Probably dangerous for the company that hires him, what with
harassment lawsuits and all.
You can get those discs in a fiberglass reinforced style. Much more durable.
"Lazarus Long" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>
> Ouch. Those'd hurt. When I replied earlier, I had in mind some thin
> abrasive discs that are used at my employer on a Dremel. The do a
> great job cutting sheet metal, but are as brittle as all get out.
> They break with just a hard stare. Them little saw blades you point
> out would do some wicked damage to flesh and not break.
Yep, a Darwin award candidate on some future date.
Ordinary tools are dangerous enough without going looking for trouble.
Those lancelot carving wheels some folks use on right angle grinders
look extremely dangerous, and they have guards!
A Dremel tool with a little abrasive cutoff wheel would've worked and
been safer.
On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 13:34:05 GMT, [email protected] (Doug Miller)
wrote:
>In article <[email protected]>, [email protected] (vmtw) wrote:
>[snip]
>>Why do people take chances like this?
>
>Because they're stupid.
On 17 Sep 2003, Doug Miller spake unto rec.woodworking:
>>Why do people take chances like this?
>
> Because they're stupid.
... and they either don't have, or choose to ignore, that little voice in
their heads that screams "DANGER! DANGER! DANGER!" when preparing to do
something that puts them at the head of the line for the natural selection
process.
"Young Carpenter" <Fiddleronroof*@*juno.com> wrote in
news:[email protected]:
> I think Jeff Foxworthy has a whole spiel on people who need to wear
> signs saying "I'm stupid"
>
That was Bill Engvall (his goofy sidekick from the TV show). He came out
with a CD a couple of years ago called "Here's Your Sign". My wife
played that thing till it practically wore out. While it was popular,
you couldn't listen to a country station here in Phoenix for more than
about 10 minutes without hearing it.
--
Jerry Maple
General Dynamics Decision Systems
Scottsdale, AZ
No more so than all the ones who had flown before them. Of course, the
general population thought all these guys were crazy.
"charlie b" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> vmtw wrote:
>
> On the other hand, I'm
> sure the Wright brothers were looked on with
> concern.
On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 09:04:17 -0500, Lazarus Long <[email protected]>
wrote:
>Yep, a Darwin award candidate on some future date.
>
>Ordinary tools are dangerous enough without going looking for trouble.
>Those lancelot carving wheels some folks use on right angle grinders
>look extremely dangerous, and they have guards!
>
>A Dremel tool with a little abrasive cutoff wheel would've worked and
>been safer.
>
>
http://www.micromark.com/ stock numbers 14133 through 14138.
Work great, cut _fast_.
Balsa, bass, birch ply, fingers, . . .
BTDT.
Cheers,
Fred McClellan
the dash plumber at mindspring dot com
On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 15:28:03 GMT, "Edwin Pawlowski" <[email protected]>
wrote:
> I had a job applicant yesterday. Under special skills part of the application he wrote that he did Genetorial work.
Ah, he worked on genitals. Interesting work if you can get it ;)
In article <[email protected]>, Phil <[email protected]> wrote:
>He must have gone to a Texas public school. A while back while
>attending a parent-teacher meeting I observed many equivalent examples
>in history papers posted on a classroom bulletin board. I asked the
>history teacher about it and his response was "...this ain't an English
>class."
I found the following floating around the net a while ago. It's a
classic:
-----------------------------
The following are supposedly genuine statements taken from history
papers submitted last year ... enjoy!
Ancient Egypt was inhabited by mummies and they all wrote in
hydraulics. They lived in the Sarah Dessert and traveled by Camelot.
Moses led the Hebrew slaves to the Red Sea, where they made unleavened
bread which is bread without any ingredients. Moses went up on Mount
Cyanide to get the Ten Commandos. He dies before he ever reaches
Canada.
Solomon had three hundred wives and three hundred porcupines.
The Greeks also had myths. A myth is a female moth.
Homer was not written by Homer but by another man of that name.
Socrates was a famous Greek teacher who went around giving people
advice. They killed him. Socrates died from an overdose of wedlock.
After his death, his career suffered a dramatic decline.
In the Olympic Games, the Greeks ran races, hurled the biscuits, and
threw the java.
Eventually the Romans conquered the Greeks. History calls people
Romans because they never stayed in one place very long.
Julius Caesar extinguished himself on the battlefields of Gaul. The
Ides of march murdered him because they thought he was going to be
made king. Dying, he gasped out: "Tee hee, Brutus."
Finally Magna Carta provided that no man should be hanged twice for
the same offense.
In midevil times most people were alliterate. The greatest writer of
the futile ages was Chaucer, who wrote many poems and vases and also
wrote literature.
It was an age of great inventions and discoveries. Gutenberg invented
removable type and the Bible. Another important invention was the
circulation of blood. And Sir Francis Drake circumcised the world
with a 100 foot clipper.
The greatest write of the Renaissance was William Shakespeare. He was
born in the year 1564, supposedly on his birthday. He wrote
tragedies, comedies and hysterectomies, all in Islamic pentameter.
Romeo and Juliet are an example of a heroic couplet. Romeo's last
wish was to be laid by Juliet.
The next great author was John Milton. Milton wrote Paradise Lost.
Then his wife died and he wrote Paradise Regained.
One of the causes of the Revolutionary War was the English put tacks
in their tea. Also, the colonists would send their parcels through
the post without stamps. Finally the colonists won the war and no
longer had to pay for taxis. Franklin discovered electricity by
rubbing two cats backwards and declared "A horse divided against
itself cannot stand." Franklin died in 1790 and is still dead.
Soon the Constitution of the United States was adopted to secure
domestic hostility. Under the constitution the people enjoyed the
right to bare arms.
Gravity was invented by Isaac Walton. It is chiefly noticeable in the
autumn when the apples are falling off the trees.
Johann Bach wrote a great many musical compositions and had a large
number of children. In between he practised on an old spinster which
he kept up in his attic. Handel was half German, half Italian and
half English. He was very large.
Beethoven wrote music even though he was deaf. He was so deaf he
wrote loud music.
The nineteenth century was a time of a great many thoughts and
inventions. People stopped reproducing by hand and started
reproducing by machine.
Louis Pasteur discovered a cure for rabbis. Charles Darwin was a
naturist who wrote Organ of the Species.
The First World War, cased by the assignation of the Arch-Duck by an
analyst, ushered in a new error in the anal of human history.
Winston Churchill was king of England during the Second World War. He
was known for many famous speeches such as "We will fight them on the
benches." The king of Germany was Hitler who invalidated France and
then drove down the Eiffel Tower in his tanks.
The sun never set on the British Empire because the British Empire is
in the East and the sun sets in the West.
My surgical colleagues use some nice oscillating saws to cut bone. Low
risk of damage to soft tissues, plenty of control. Nice example at:
http://www.de-soutter.com/htm/products/orthopaedic_md_mcx.htm
Any non-squeamish woodworker would enjoy the use of saw and jigs in
total knee replacement.
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Reverend Jim Peasboro
On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 10:22:23 -0400, "Young Carpenter"
<Fiddleronroof*@*juno.com> wrote:
>Considering that is a story that should be submitted. How else could people
>know to avoid him?
Nope. Darwin Award recipients are required to have removed their
genes from the pool permanently during their 'adventure'.
Not dead only gets you Honorable Mention, and you really gotta screw
yourself up to get that. Taking off a finger or three won't cut it.
[can't believe I said that . . . ]
Cheers,
Fred McClellan
the dash plumber at mindspring dot com
In article <[email protected]>, [email protected] (vmtw) wrote:
[snip]
>Why do people take chances like this?
Because they're stupid.
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Doug Miller (alphageek-at-milmac-dot-com)
"Young Carpenter" <Fiddleronroof*@*juno.com> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
: "Violin playing and Woodworking are similar, it takes plenty of money,
: plenty of practice, and you usually make way more noise than intended"
Heh, I play the violin while the glue is drying.. :-)
On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 22:25:21 GMT, Fred McClellan
<[email protected]> wrote:
>On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 09:04:17 -0500, Lazarus Long <[email protected]>
>wrote:
>
>>Yep, a Darwin award candidate on some future date.
>>
>>Ordinary tools are dangerous enough without going looking for trouble.
>>Those lancelot carving wheels some folks use on right angle grinders
>>look extremely dangerous, and they have guards!
>>
>>A Dremel tool with a little abrasive cutoff wheel would've worked and
>>been safer.
>>
>>
>
>
>http://www.micromark.com/ stock numbers 14133 through 14138.
>
>Work great, cut _fast_.
>
>Balsa, bass, birch ply, fingers, . . .
>
>BTDT.
>Cheers,
>Fred McClellan
>the dash plumber at mindspring dot com
Ouch. Those'd hurt. When I replied earlier, I had in mind some thin
abrasive discs that are used at my employer on a Dremel. The do a
great job cutting sheet metal, but are as brittle as all get out.
They break with just a hard stare. Them little saw blades you point
out would do some wicked damage to flesh and not break.
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 02:20:26 GMT, Lazarus Long <[email protected]>
wrote:
>Them little saw blades you point
>out would do some wicked damage to flesh and not break.
If you're going to use "tiny sawblades" hand-held, then look at a Fein
Multimaster. It oscillates, rather than rotating. Cuts hard things
beautifully (they're used to take plaster casts off in hospitals) but
the worst you get from skin contact is a line of pinpricks.
I'm trying to production-engineer these right now:
http://codesmiths.com/shed/things/trays/
Cutting the narrow stopped groove for the copper is a nightmare. Only
way I've found to cut them in reasonable time is a slitting saw in the
milling machine, and a custom-made fence to run the stock along. It's
an ugly lash-up and it's putting my fingers far too close to a
whirling sawblade, even with a pushblock 8-(
"Fred McClellan" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 10:22:23 -0400, "Young Carpenter"
> <Fiddleronroof*@*juno.com> wrote:
>
> >Considering that is a story that should be submitted. How else could
people
> >know to avoid him?
>
> Nope. Darwin Award recipients are required to have removed their
> genes from the pool permanently during their 'adventure'.
>
> Not dead only gets you Honorable Mention, and you really gotta screw
> yourself up to get that. Taking off a finger or three won't cut it.
>
> [can't believe I said that . . . ]
> Cheers,
> Fred McClellan
> the dash plumber at mindspring dot com
Agreed, but there is one more condition. You must remove yourself from the
gene pool before you have children, otherwise the stupid genes just keep on
replicating.
Mekon
"Jerry Maple" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
(snip)
> While it was popular,
> you couldn't listen to a country station here in Phoenix for more than
> about 10 minutes without hearing it.
>
(snip)
If you wilfully listen to a country radio station, you get what you deserve.
:)
Mekon
Mekon wrote:
> If you wilfully listen to a country radio station, you get what you
> deserve.
Agreed. Unfortunately, 98% of radio stations play country now. Gotta love
this "new country" where they play rap beats on acoustic drums and say
"yeehaw" a lot.
That's why I listen to NPR, preferably stations of the all-news variety.
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"vmtw" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> The guy that works in the office next to me cut off his index finger
> and severely damaged the next three fingers while cutting some siding
> hand! He is “lucky” he only lost one finger, that thing
> could have killed him.
>
> Why do people take chances like this?
> others around him. Why do people take chances like this?
>
> Scott
..see darwinawards.com
Larry
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 02:20:26 GMT, Lazarus Long <[email protected]>
wrote:
>On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 22:25:21 GMT, Fred McClellan
><[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 09:04:17 -0500, Lazarus Long <[email protected]>
>>wrote:
>>
>>>Yep, a Darwin award candidate on some future date.
>>>
>>>Ordinary tools are dangerous enough without going looking for trouble.
>>>Those lancelot carving wheels some folks use on right angle grinders
>>>look extremely dangerous, and they have guards!
>>>
>>>A Dremel tool with a little abrasive cutoff wheel would've worked and
>>>been safer.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>http://www.micromark.com/ stock numbers 14133 through 14138.
>>
>>Work great, cut _fast_.
>>
>>Balsa, bass, birch ply, fingers, . . .
>>
>>BTDT.
>>Cheers,
>>Fred McClellan
>>the dash plumber at mindspring dot com
>
>Ouch. Those'd hurt. When I replied earlier, I had in mind some thin
>abrasive discs that are used at my employer on a Dremel. The do a
>great job cutting sheet metal, but are as brittle as all get out.
>They break with just a hard stare. Them little saw blades you point
>out would do some wicked damage to flesh and not break.
Yup. Nasty scar running across four fingers attests to that.
I now use them _rarely_, and with serious consideration aforehand.
Still, there are a very few jobs where nothing else will do.
Otherwise I use the cut-off wheels, sanding drums, and plethora of
other decidedly more safe Dremel attachments.
There are two main varieties of cut-off wheels for Dremels, the
'plain' type and the reinforced type. The differences are readily
seen; the reinforcing fabric in the latter is quite obvious. The
'plain' wheels shatter in a New York Second, but the reinforced
variety are pretty tough customers. I use 'em to slice up stainless
sheet and tube when building control fittings for the models.
Cheers,
Fred McClellan
the dash plumber at mindspring dot com