damn near unbelievable...

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17 years ago

Thu, Mar 15, 2007 11:32 PM

had a pretty good laugh at work today,

That damn Polack Cheesehead I work with had run the acetylene dry, and couldn't figger out why he couldn't get a new tank to hook up, neither one of the tanks he had on hand would hook up, so he calls me over to ask why.... well, I couldn't believe my friggin' eyes....there he wuz, tryin' to hook up a bottle of C25 and a bottle of argon to the acetylene regulator...

I carefully 'splained to him that shielding gas would definitely not work as a fuel gas, then I just walked away...I had to

-- Big Ben the "sure am glad I'm a Swede instead of a Polack" Slug

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17 years ago

Fri, Mar 16, 2007 9:47 AM

Shame it wouldn't hook up - would have been fun watching him trying to light it up.....

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17 years ago

Fri, Mar 16, 2007 11:15 AM

I knew they made those threads different for a reason ...............

Steve

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17 years ago

Fri, Mar 16, 2007 12:34 PM

Is that the guy that makes the splatter paintings? I didn't know he was from Wisconsin.

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17 years ago

Fri, Mar 16, 2007 4:16 PM

Even more fun to watch him use acetylene as a shielding gas...

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17 years ago

Sat, Mar 17, 2007 12:43 AM

That would be fun to watch, but it would take some intentional sabotage to change the fittings.

Sounds like one of the outrageous things you would see on CSI, where they make big booboos on things that few people have the experience or knowledge to catch.

Steve

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17 years ago

Sun, Mar 18, 2007 6:51 AM

I'm surprised you didn't send him off somewhere for the "proper" adaptor.... And always, "If you want to find something that doesn't exist, You need to look in a place that doesn't exist" B666

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17 years ago

Mon, Mar 26, 2007 3:55 PM

A few years back, a local hospital got hit with a big lawsuit for having killed a patient by hooking him/her up to the nitrous oxide line in the room, instead of the oxygen line. At some point, somebody had gone and modified the nitrous oxide fitting so that an oxygen regulator would attach. Even better, the hospital couldn't come up with a good explanation of why exactly they were supplying nitrous oxide to patient rooms in the first place, since there was no medical case where they would ever use it.