Conservation of Bustedness

I picked up a skilsaw at the junkyard once.. the cord was cut just long enough to bend under the saw and reach the front of the blade:-D

John

They must be pretty small because it handles 100 million of them per second.

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I doubt it too because it wasn't yours to break. Imagine your reaction if the guy who said "I can fix your heat pump" smashed it with a sledge hammer when he found that he couldn't fix it.

Probably 1/4" bits, if it came from 1963.

Tim

-- "California is the breakfast state: fruits, nuts and flakes." Website:

Our university engineering students did this same conversion to our Rockwell table saw. They cut their own cord off, with the saw. A TABLE saw. That's not easy! An electric HAND saw, sure, that's easy; but a TABLE saw?

They never cease to amaze me.

Dan Mitchell ============

Ha ha, brings back pain.

The last time I got my heat gun down and turned it on, I was greeted by dense smoke and an unpleasant smell. Seems wasps had built a nest inside the barrel.

There are some wasps that like to build nests inside small holes.

I found one of those recently.

I keep a small portable air tank in the garage for inflating tires, and periodically bring it inside to recharge it from the house line. The hose and chuck for it are mounted on a quick-disconnect for convenience.

Last time I went to use it, I hooked up the the hose, opened the tank valve, and tried to inflate the tire. Chuck on the hose acted quite strange - leaky, but no air was getting to the tire.

Yep, some damn wasp had crawled into the open end of the QC fitting and begun building a nest.

She got a pretty good suprise though. I had to dismantle the air chuck to get the debris out of there so I could use it again.

Jim

We had a frog get sucked into a firetruck's suction line, through the pump, and he lodged in the strainer in the nozzle. That wasn't a lot of fun, from the frog's perspective, I wouldn't imagine.

I suspect the wasp had a similar high-speed run, with similar results at the end.

Jim

Three key words - UNIVERSITY ENGINEERING STUDENTS - explains it completely, they probably survived, unfortunately.

Gerry :-)} London, Canada

Not as bad as the surprise of a nest under the seat of the outhouse! Gerry :-)} London, Canada

"Gerald Miller" Not as bad as the surprise of a nest under the seat of the outhouse! ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I had that same experience fifty years ago, and I remember it like it was yesterday.

Over the weekend, I rebuilt the powerfeed on my Clausing 8540 horizontal miller, a box fan (thermal fuze), tigged an old drill press vise back together..and my wife just called saying her car is making a tick tick tick noise....

Sigh

Gunner

"Considering the events of recent years, the world has a long way to go to regain its credibility and reputation with the US." unknown

Tick tick tick, I don't worry about; it's when SWMBO describes it as g-blump g-blump g-blump that I get concerned that I might get my hands dirty installing the "donut" Gerry :-)} London, Canada

Just picked up my new cistern liner (Thompson Plastics, Souris, Manitoba - highly recommended) and this means that I have to drain the remaining water I have in order to install it. This in the beginning of the driest (predicted) summer on record!

Ok - fixed the cistern. Water have I none. So is this system fixed or still busted?

Ken (perplexed)

I think it all ended up down here a few months ago - we got our fill, and every drop that Seattle & Portland was supposed to get, too. Missed "Wettest Winter in Recorded History" by less than an inch.

Last week, Laguna Beach got the 'delayed reaction' effects of a few acre-feet soaking down to bedrock.

And get out your tractors and shovels and clear a defendable space folks, the brushfire season might be a bit late arriving but is probably going to be a real doozy...

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I just look at it as a way to get new tools! Some recent examples:

Garbage disposal leaks internally->reciprocating saw to cut off rusted hanging bolts connecting to sink flange.

Need to make 3" hole in plywood subfloor to inspect floor cavity->3" hole saw->1/2"shank arbor->1/2" corded drill in addition to 3/8" corded and cordless I already have.

2600 lb excello mill (bridgeport clone) needs moving from shipping crate to tool room inside school shop. No new tools, but 3 days and 5 2 1/2 ton rolling shop jacks +pipes+boards/levers etc. Also need to remove table and leadscrew to get machine thru 36" doorway. We think table weighs ~200 lbs, actually 500+, table falls, nearly smashes hand, nearly forces us to buy new socket set for angry autoshop teacher (we were lucky it only smashed the sheet metal case). Then we had to slide, "walk" table onto hand cart to wheel to autoshop to use 2 ton chain hoist to lift onto cart, then wheel back to tool room and slide onto ways. Reinstall leadscrew, then 2 months of fixing: noone was paying close attention to leadscrew assembly when removed from machine-> "Where does this part go?" also 3 weeks to replace busted one-shot hose. also gibs all screwed up. Finally, machine all ready to go, only need three phase power installed. Power is in electrical panel less than 4 feet away, but school shop, typical beurocratic nightmare, etc. Hmm. Did that toilet sound right? If it didn't, I'm not going to be happy. In the last 2 months, 6-8 toilet repairs. There are 3 toilets in my house. Ugh!

The old heat pump outside unit developed a huge leak a couple of weeks back. Decided to replace the thing with a AC only unit and fossil-fuel heat (air/air heat pumps are not the best choice in for my area). Got the new AC online yesterday morning, just in time for the hottest/muggiest day of the year (so far).

Put a load of laundry in the dryer last night, turned it on and went to bed. This morning - wet laundry. The drum tumbles, but the heating elements don't turn on. :-(

Fuse in the non motor line? Gerry :-)} London, Canada