I almost peed my pants reading this! So funny .... I know it wasn't for you at the time.
2nd lesson .... remove watch an all bling !
Is your arm okay?
It's official
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womenfly2
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Re: It's official
Love2Fly ...
Keri-Ann
Web site: Keri-Ann's Pietenpol Plan Packages
Picture site: Keri-Ann's Pietenpol
Keri-Ann
Web site: Keri-Ann's Pietenpol Plan Packages
Picture site: Keri-Ann's Pietenpol
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mtaylor
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Re: It's official
Qualified! Different chapter, but right up there with the best of them! All the years we spend out in the shop working alone (happily) we don't think about what if...
Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for sharing!
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M Lightsey
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Re: It's official
This has been around the block, but this seems like an appropriate place to recycle it.....
Subject: Tools and their usage Explained
1. DRILL PRESS: A tall upright machine useful for suddenly snatching flat metal bar stock out of your hands so that it smacks you in the chest and flings your beer across the room, denting the freshly-painted project which you had carefully set in the corner where nothing could get to it.
2. WIRE WHEEL: Cleans paint off bolts and then throws them somewhere under the workbench with the speed of light . Also removes fingerprints and hard-earned calluses from fingers in about the time it takes you to say, 'Oh sh*t!'
3. SKILL SAW: A portable cutting tool used to make studs too short.
4 .PLIERS: Used to round off bolt heads. Sometimes used in the creation of blood-blisters.
5 .BELT SANDER: An electric sanding tool commonly used to convert minor touch-up jobs into major refinishing jobs.
6. HACKSAW: One of a family of cutting tools built on the Ouija board principle... It transforms human energy into a crooked, unpredictable motion, and the more you attempt to influence its course, the more dismal your future becomes.
7. VISE-GRIPS: Generally used after pliers to completely round off bolt heads. If nothing else is available, they can also be used to transfer intense welding heat to the palm of your hand.
8 .OXYACETYLENE TORCH: Used almost entirely for lighting various flammable objects in your shop on fire. Also handy for igniting the grease inside the wheel hub out of which you want to remove a bearing race.
9. TABLE SAW: A large stationary power tool commonly used to launch wood projectiles for testing wall integrity.
10. HYDRAULIC FLOOR JACK: Used for lowering an automobile to the ground after you have installed your new brake shoes , trapping the jack handle firmly under the bumper.
11. BAND SAW: A large stationary power saw primarily used by most shops to cut good aluminum sheet into smaller pieces that more easily fit into the trash can after you cut on the inside of the line instead of the outside edge.
12. TWO-TON ENGINE HOIST: A tool for testing the maximum tensile strength of everything you forgot to disconnect.
13. PHILLIPS SCREWDRIVER: Normally used to stab the vacuum seals under lids or for opening old-style paper-and-tin oil cans and splashing oil on your shirt; but can also be used, as the name implies, to strip out Phillips screw heads.
14. STRAIGHT SCREWDRIVER :A tool for opening paint cans. Sometimes used to convert common slotted screws into non-removable screws and butchering your palms.
15 .PRY BAR: A tool used to crumple the metal surrounding that clip or bracket you needed to remove in order to replace a 50 cent part.
16. HOSE CUTTER: A tool used to make hoses too short.
17 .HAMMER : Originally employed as a weapon of war, the hammer nowadays is used as a kind of divining rod to locate the most expensive parts adjacent the object we are trying to hit.
18. UTILITY KNIFE: Used to open and slice through the contents of cardboard cartons delivered to your front door; works particularly well on contents such as seats, vinyl records, liquids in plastic bottles, collector magazines, refund checks, and rubber or plastic parts. Especially useful for slicing work clothes, but only while in use.
19. SON-OF-A-BI*CH TOOL: (A personal favorite!) Any handy tool that you grab and throw across the garage while yelling 'Son of a BI*CH!' at the top of your lungs. It is also, most often, the next tool that you will need.
20. TAPE MEASURE: This device is used to measure length. It should be immediately dropped onto concrete several times so that measurements made with it will then agree with every other TAPE MEASURE in the world.
21. ELECTRIC HAND DRILL: Normally used for spinning pop rivets in their holes until you die of old age; with the proper accessories, used to destroy perfectly good wood in many ways.
22. CHISEL: Multi use tool - good for making deep cuts in the hand.
23. CORDLESS DRILL/POWER SCREWDRIVER: Used for rounding out Phillips screw heads at high speed.
24. NAIL-SET: Used to make small, round depressions around the head of a finish nail. Principally used for decoration.
25. CLAMPS: These come in two sizes: too small and loaned to an in-law.
26. WHITWORTH SOCKETS: Once used for working on older British cars and motorcycles, they are now used mainly for impersonating that 9/16 or 1/2 socket you've been searching for the last 15 minutes.
27. 8-FOOT LONG 2 X 4: Used for levering an automobile upward off a hydraulic jack handle.
28. PHONE: Tool for calling your neighbors to see if he has another hydraulic floor jack.
29. PHONE (alt.): Tool for calling your brother-in-law to see if he has your CLAMPS.
30. TABLE SAW: Used to make wood slightly narrower than necessary.
31. MITER SAW: Used to make wood slightly shorter than necessary.
32. THICKNESS PLANER: Used to make wood slightly thinner than necessary.
33. JOINTER: Used to make the too thin, too short, too narrow wood perfectly straight. Very useful for making two sides of a board perfectly straight but non-parallel.
34. SNAP-ON GASKET SCRAPER: Theoretically useful as a sandwich tool for spreading mayonnaise; used mainly for getting dog**** off your boot.
35. E-Z OUT BOLT AND STUD EXTRACTOR: A tool ten times harder than any known drill bit that snaps off in bolt holes you couldn't use anyway.
36. TROUBLE LIGHT: The home mechanic's own tanning booth. Sometimes called a drop light, it is a good source of vitamin D, "the sunshine vitamin," which is not otherwise found under cars at night. Health benefits aside, it's main purpose is to consume 40-watt light bulbs at about the same rate that 105-mm Howitzer shells might be used during, say, the first few hours of the Battle of the Bulge. More often dark than light, its name is somewhat misleading.
37. AIR COMPRESSOR: A machine that takes energy produced in a coal-burning power plant 200 miles away and transforms it into compressed air that travels by hose to a Chicago Pneumatic impact wrench that grips rusty bolts last over tightened 58 years ago by someone at ERCO, and neatly rounds off their heads.
Hope you found this informative.
Mark
Subject: Tools and their usage Explained
1. DRILL PRESS: A tall upright machine useful for suddenly snatching flat metal bar stock out of your hands so that it smacks you in the chest and flings your beer across the room, denting the freshly-painted project which you had carefully set in the corner where nothing could get to it.
2. WIRE WHEEL: Cleans paint off bolts and then throws them somewhere under the workbench with the speed of light . Also removes fingerprints and hard-earned calluses from fingers in about the time it takes you to say, 'Oh sh*t!'
3. SKILL SAW: A portable cutting tool used to make studs too short.
4 .PLIERS: Used to round off bolt heads. Sometimes used in the creation of blood-blisters.
5 .BELT SANDER: An electric sanding tool commonly used to convert minor touch-up jobs into major refinishing jobs.
6. HACKSAW: One of a family of cutting tools built on the Ouija board principle... It transforms human energy into a crooked, unpredictable motion, and the more you attempt to influence its course, the more dismal your future becomes.
7. VISE-GRIPS: Generally used after pliers to completely round off bolt heads. If nothing else is available, they can also be used to transfer intense welding heat to the palm of your hand.
8 .OXYACETYLENE TORCH: Used almost entirely for lighting various flammable objects in your shop on fire. Also handy for igniting the grease inside the wheel hub out of which you want to remove a bearing race.
9. TABLE SAW: A large stationary power tool commonly used to launch wood projectiles for testing wall integrity.
10. HYDRAULIC FLOOR JACK: Used for lowering an automobile to the ground after you have installed your new brake shoes , trapping the jack handle firmly under the bumper.
11. BAND SAW: A large stationary power saw primarily used by most shops to cut good aluminum sheet into smaller pieces that more easily fit into the trash can after you cut on the inside of the line instead of the outside edge.
12. TWO-TON ENGINE HOIST: A tool for testing the maximum tensile strength of everything you forgot to disconnect.
13. PHILLIPS SCREWDRIVER: Normally used to stab the vacuum seals under lids or for opening old-style paper-and-tin oil cans and splashing oil on your shirt; but can also be used, as the name implies, to strip out Phillips screw heads.
14. STRAIGHT SCREWDRIVER :A tool for opening paint cans. Sometimes used to convert common slotted screws into non-removable screws and butchering your palms.
15 .PRY BAR: A tool used to crumple the metal surrounding that clip or bracket you needed to remove in order to replace a 50 cent part.
16. HOSE CUTTER: A tool used to make hoses too short.
17 .HAMMER : Originally employed as a weapon of war, the hammer nowadays is used as a kind of divining rod to locate the most expensive parts adjacent the object we are trying to hit.
18. UTILITY KNIFE: Used to open and slice through the contents of cardboard cartons delivered to your front door; works particularly well on contents such as seats, vinyl records, liquids in plastic bottles, collector magazines, refund checks, and rubber or plastic parts. Especially useful for slicing work clothes, but only while in use.
19. SON-OF-A-BI*CH TOOL: (A personal favorite!) Any handy tool that you grab and throw across the garage while yelling 'Son of a BI*CH!' at the top of your lungs. It is also, most often, the next tool that you will need.
20. TAPE MEASURE: This device is used to measure length. It should be immediately dropped onto concrete several times so that measurements made with it will then agree with every other TAPE MEASURE in the world.
21. ELECTRIC HAND DRILL: Normally used for spinning pop rivets in their holes until you die of old age; with the proper accessories, used to destroy perfectly good wood in many ways.
22. CHISEL: Multi use tool - good for making deep cuts in the hand.
23. CORDLESS DRILL/POWER SCREWDRIVER: Used for rounding out Phillips screw heads at high speed.
24. NAIL-SET: Used to make small, round depressions around the head of a finish nail. Principally used for decoration.
25. CLAMPS: These come in two sizes: too small and loaned to an in-law.
26. WHITWORTH SOCKETS: Once used for working on older British cars and motorcycles, they are now used mainly for impersonating that 9/16 or 1/2 socket you've been searching for the last 15 minutes.
27. 8-FOOT LONG 2 X 4: Used for levering an automobile upward off a hydraulic jack handle.
28. PHONE: Tool for calling your neighbors to see if he has another hydraulic floor jack.
29. PHONE (alt.): Tool for calling your brother-in-law to see if he has your CLAMPS.
30. TABLE SAW: Used to make wood slightly narrower than necessary.
31. MITER SAW: Used to make wood slightly shorter than necessary.
32. THICKNESS PLANER: Used to make wood slightly thinner than necessary.
33. JOINTER: Used to make the too thin, too short, too narrow wood perfectly straight. Very useful for making two sides of a board perfectly straight but non-parallel.
34. SNAP-ON GASKET SCRAPER: Theoretically useful as a sandwich tool for spreading mayonnaise; used mainly for getting dog**** off your boot.
35. E-Z OUT BOLT AND STUD EXTRACTOR: A tool ten times harder than any known drill bit that snaps off in bolt holes you couldn't use anyway.
36. TROUBLE LIGHT: The home mechanic's own tanning booth. Sometimes called a drop light, it is a good source of vitamin D, "the sunshine vitamin," which is not otherwise found under cars at night. Health benefits aside, it's main purpose is to consume 40-watt light bulbs at about the same rate that 105-mm Howitzer shells might be used during, say, the first few hours of the Battle of the Bulge. More often dark than light, its name is somewhat misleading.
37. AIR COMPRESSOR: A machine that takes energy produced in a coal-burning power plant 200 miles away and transforms it into compressed air that travels by hose to a Chicago Pneumatic impact wrench that grips rusty bolts last over tightened 58 years ago by someone at ERCO, and neatly rounds off their heads.
Hope you found this informative.
Mark
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mmcgrew
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Re: It's official
Good post some funny stuff. Arm is OK. Now I do remember to take watch and rings off. Coming home with out my wedding ring is a story for another time????
Michael
N838MM
Michael
N838MM
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Bill Rusk
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Re: It's official
Used slow setting super glue to attach minor filler pieces to wings. Got a little on my fingers. Decided to go to bathroom while waiting for glue to dry on wing parts. It sets very quickly on human anatomy. Acetone will release it but it is quite difficult to open the can with only one hand. Sure glad no one came in the hangar during that one.
Have several scars from welding.
Safety wire REALLY hurts when poked under skin.
Humbly request membership in aforementioned club.
Bill
Have several scars from welding.
Safety wire REALLY hurts when poked under skin.
Humbly request membership in aforementioned club.
Bill
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mtaylor
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Welcome, Bill. But you've actually been a member all this time by virtue of the pain you've suffered for the cause! In looking back through these posts to get ideas for a name for this club, I notice that the original poster goes by the moniker of "Painless". Sort of ironic, heh?
Mark
Mark
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MWander
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Re: It's official
Michael,
What use is it to have wife and son swear to never tell anyone if you are posting the story on an open forum?
BTW: Does gluing ones hand to the workbench with CyanoAcrylate instant glue count? Not that I'm admitting to doing that. Or putting a nail in my thumb with an air-nailer
What use is it to have wife and son swear to never tell anyone if you are posting the story on an open forum?
BTW: Does gluing ones hand to the workbench with CyanoAcrylate instant glue count? Not that I'm admitting to doing that. Or putting a nail in my thumb with an air-nailer
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mmcgrew
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My wife and son NEVER read anything about airplanes - They say tthat they hear enough from me. Yes that surely counts. How about holding two small pieces in your hand while the glue sets up only to find out you are glued to the piece.
BTW - I am putting the finish paint on wing #4. All that is left is the installing the wings, rigging the inner planes and flying/landing wires.
This project was started in 1/03. I do not believe I have missed more than a handfull of weekends working on it. I also worked many week days during this time period.
Michael
N838M
BTW - I am putting the finish paint on wing #4. All that is left is the installing the wings, rigging the inner planes and flying/landing wires.
This project was started in 1/03. I do not believe I have missed more than a handfull of weekends working on it. I also worked many week days during this time period.
Michael
N838M
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MWander
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Re: It's official
Now that is commitment. I am trying to get plans, but the more I read about the quality and commitment displayed by this group, the more I am getting intimidated.mmcgrew wrote: ... BTW - I am putting the finish paint on wing #4. All that is left is the installing the wings, rigging the inner planes and flying/landing wires.
This project was started in 1/03. I do not believe I have missed more than a handfull of weekends working on it. I also worked many week days during this time period.
Michael
N838M
If the last post with photos of your wing is an example, I am anticipating some completion photos...or at least some photos of a rigged airframe. That's close enough right?
Speaking of building with jewlery/watches. I skydive regularly. A story going around the dropzones recently is about someone who got his ring caught on the door of the plane on exit. Peeled the skin back right up to the fingernail. Ugly, painful, I am sure, but luckily repairable after many months of healing. I guess the motto is that 'chance' will find a way to make us suffer if we give it half a chance.
Michel