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Todd Costantino
Just because you have access to an 80 ton press, doesn't mean you should use it to press your Oddysey Dynatron headset race onto your forks.



After the loud bang, the guy next to me asked, "Where did it go?"

I said, "I don't care, as long as it's not in me!"

-Todd
Lonewolf
QUOTE (Todd Costantino @ May 12 2007, 11:31 PM) *
Just because you have access to an 80 ton press, doesn't mean you should use it to press your Oddysey Dynatron headset race onto your forks.



After the loud bang, the guy next to me asked, "Where did it go?"

I said, "I don't care, as long as it's not in me!"

-Todd








LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Jet Black
Have to agree with the warning.

You want to try pressing some cast iron , cement or random steel parts with a high carbon content if you want Father Darwin to come a visiting you properly ph34r.gif


As a Sparky with security background , I've had to wire up all sorts of , safety lights , keyed switches , micro switches , internal alarms on internal panels , surplus to our high local safety standards to try & stop or partly protect machine operators from doing insane things with press's , foam cutters , foam shredders , cement compression testing (all sorts) , steam boilers , exhaust fans , & sorts of other seriously nasty commercial stuff , that make for working horror movie props..
Yet both the machines & the operators still manage to find a new creative or unavoidable existing way to continue to draw blood from each other.



Hints & Options.

Use the right tool for the job
Work in a bomb disposal suit
***** Slap idiots around you who continually detonate stuff on machines
in your workshop , when circular motion goes straight line , ground zero
is often the safest place to be.
Beware of people who are missing fingers & are not Yakuza associated.
Let habitual idiots get a really good taste of Electricity , close , but not the
last resort to re educate them on workin safe smile.gif

JB




GR8BNDINI
Thank for the tip Mr.Costantino smile.gif
guest_070901
that's pretty darned funny, right there. i don't care who yah are.

Tooltime Tim would have grunted.
Ted Carl
Great stuff! lol laugh.gif
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