Today's Hint - Don't do things like this

========================== Kevin, Did you sell tickets?? :-)

Ken Moon Weberville, TX

Be sure to adhere EXTRA-rigidly to this rule when winding up the cord on the hair dryer after showering...particularly if the towel around your waist isn't snugged up tight (or is absent!).

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September 11, 2001 - Never Forget

Ha! Good idea! Mine is just a littel unit but it can sure cut an extension cord ;)

Dave Hall

I like what ToolKraft did with my DP. The long handle of the key plugs into the motor housing for storage - and if the key hasn't been stored, then the DP can't be turned on.

A hair dryer? Is this a neener?

Dave in fairfax (who doesn't need no steenkin' hair dryer)

Don't let cut-offs pile up on your table saw, or you may knock one into the blade and have it come spinning past your head at 200 MPH. DAMHIKT.

-- Mark

I picked up a spring-loaded chain (looks kind of like a small tape measure) that clips to one's belt/waistband, to hold keys handily. I mounted it inside the belt housing on my press with an "L" bracket, and, after pulling the chain through a hole drilled in the bottom of the housing, hooked the chuck key to it. Now..It is hanging handily out of the way, and, having the chain attached to it makes it unlikely that it will get left in the chuck by accident. The spring-loading, while strong enough to retract the chuck if I let go of it, does not make it a struggle to use the chuck. Regards Dave Mundt

My DP has the same thing and it works great. But it's not my idea -- it came that way. I got my Jet from a woodworker who got married and developed other hobbies. ;-)

-- Mark

When I was sick one weekend, my wife decided to help out by trimming the front hedge - that was the end of that extension cord. :)

Tom

I have no idea what you're talking about. You also shouldn't run your router with your head too close to the unit, because during a plunge cut, it could kick back and hit you really hard in the forehead and leave a bruise. At least that's what I read somewhere.

todd

Ever spliced an extension cord to make it longer. Here's how:

1) carefully uplug the drill from the end 2) get pocket knife 3) admire new hole in pocket knife blade 4) unplug remainder of cord 5) reset breaker

Also, don't pick up the cuttoffs until you are absolutely sure the blade has stopped turning. It can make a hole in your finger stitches won't close.

Huh?

Sorry to hear that you're follically challenged.

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September 11, 2001 - Never Forget

That's amazing! Same thing happens when you reach over a bench grinder from behind to turn it off. Mostly affects little fingers.

I had set a small (3") model on the ways of the lathe while sharpening a pen trimmer because that's where the light is best (barely okay) in my 'shop' in the dungeon.During use of the attached flex shaft it had turned 180 deg. away from me. So I simply reached over it to turn it off.

When I saw the pink spray, I realized that I had probably not acted wisely.

No I didn't. I never said that. I would never do anything that stupid. Someone else must have been using my computer. Darned Commies ^h^h^h^h^h^h^h Terrorists.

Bill

Writing under a new nom-de-plume because my other computer fried its motherboard and I don't remember what name I used on it. Using the laptop at the moment.

I heard that differently.

I heard that the scots regiments took fewer casualties from mustard gas because of the argyle socks, which, because they are 100% wood with lanoline, were resistant to the gas.

Mind you, I'm not sure I buy that. But it makes a good story.

Here are two that you CAN look up, though.

The scots DID, in fact wear thier kilts into battle during WWI.

They fought so fiercely that thier German opponents honored them with the epithet: The Ladies from Hell.

(Scroll down to 20thcentury wars) Hmmm. No woodworking in this post.

Next week I'm donning costume and taking my antique hand tools up to Kentucky to spend the entire day demonstrating medieval woodworking techniques to middle-school and high-school students. I hope that out of the 500 or so that see me, one might be inspired to persue the making of sawdust.

Scottish by heritage, American by the Grace of God,

Bill

Sure would "enhance" the experience, though *G*

Nope. Buddy of mine was on a date with a state beauty queen and tried that with Ben-gay. She was NOT amused.

Dave in Fairfax

Oh Oh, I got one --

don't try to cut a coconut on a RAS saw unless it's VERY securily fastened....

I tried this and my very makeshift jig to fasten it wasn't up to the job of holding it in place. The result was dent in the wall, a ricocheting coconut, which did damage to the other side of the shop, and a bunch of flying coconut milk -- ever tried to clean sawdust mixed with cocunut milk? Trust me, you don't want to.

John