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    Default First Job

    When I was about 14 or 15 and in my first job, first thing every morning I had to burn the rubbish. The factory where I worked had an old brick dunny down by the back gate, directly behind that was a 44 gallon rubbish bin/furnace, One morning, unknown to me, the painter emptied lots and lots of thinners into the bin, just before I came outside to do my chore. To help in my endeavours, first I threw in half cup of thinners, stood back and threw in a match. As was my custom, that's exactly what I did, of course there was a huge explosion, followed by an equally large fireball. Now, unknown to me, the painter’s offsider was residing within the dunny at the time, also doing his morning chore, milliseconds after the bang, he came stumbling out, pants around his ankles and something messy running down his leg. The explosion and fireball were so intense they dislodged half a dozen bricks on the back wall and blackened the ceiling inside the dunny. Not long after that incident, the painter’s offsider waited until the painter was doing his chore, then, very quietly latched the door from the outside, threw some thinners under the door and followed that up with a match, the painter didn’t need a shave that day, anywhere. Lesson learnt: For every action there is an opposite re-action.

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    I learned that for unpowered tailstock work standing at the back of the lathe is an option.
    PS: I also was reminded I need to make a tailstock sliding tap holder.
    Last edited by Bryan; 30th Mar 2012 at 08:51 PM. Reason: pic

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    Thought i'd pull this thread back out after i made a bit of a mess today. What did i learn? A little layout dye goes a long way, and as a bonus it strips paint too!
    Yes, I was feeling a little.....blue after i did it.

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    Arthur been helping again? Metho works for me. On the dye, not the child.

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    Hi Ewan,
    Luckily from here I can see the funny side

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    Is that the impression of your cheeks on the floor?
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    Hi Bryan,

    Is that foam on your headstock there for sound or vibration, and does it work?

    Cheers Ben

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bryan View Post
    Arthur been helping again? Metho works for me. On the dye, not the child.
    I could try and blame him but the evidence is still ingrained in my hands.....I'll try the metho, i've never thought to try it i just use thinners to clean it off the job.

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    Is that the impression of your cheeks on the floor?
    If it is then either i got a real big butt or a tiny lathe.....
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    Quote Originally Posted by bwal74 View Post
    Hi Bryan,

    Is that foam on your headstock there for sound or vibration, and does it work?

    Cheers Ben
    Ben, yes for noise. It helps enough that I don't look for earmuffs. There are only two things I truly dislike about the Graz and the gear whine is one of them. The other is wear but you can't blame the makers for that.

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    Learned to expect the unexpected! Took out my old walk-behind slasher to cut some dry grass and scrub. Set it up to start and pulled the start rope a few times with no result. Ignition shutoff is a bit cranky, so decided to check for spark. Pulled out sparkplug, connected HT lead and laid it on the frame near the (horizontal) plug hole. Heaved on the rope again and a jet of fuel shot out of the cylinder across the plug and showered the mower deck and nearby dry grass with burning fuel. Yanked the machine back onto bare ground and did some fancy footwork stamping out burning grass to avoid a bushfire. Then a few handsfull of dry dirt on the mower deck before the panic was over.
    Seems the fuel tap and the carby float valve were both a bit tired and over time on a vertical shaft motor, leaking fuel had gravitated from the carby via an open intake valve into the cylinder, ready to scare the cr---- out of me when I cranked it over. Will approach the old beast with caution next time! Combustor.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Combustor View Post
    Learned to expect the unexpected! Took out my old walk-behind slasher to cut some dry grass and scrub. Set it up to start and pulled the start rope a few times with no result. Ignition shutoff is a bit cranky, so decided to check for spark. Pulled out sparkplug, connected HT lead and laid it on the frame near the (horizontal) plug hole. Heaved on the rope again and a jet of fuel shot out of the cylinder across the plug and showered the mower deck and nearby dry grass with burning fuel. Yanked the machine back onto bare ground and did some fancy footwork stamping out burning grass to avoid a bushfire. Then a few handsfull of dry dirt on the mower deck before the panic was over.
    Seems the fuel tap and the carby float valve were both a bit tired and over time on a vertical shaft motor, leaking fuel had gravitated from the carby via an open intake valve into the cylinder, ready to scare the cr---- out of me when I cranked it over. Will approach the old beast with caution next time! Combustor.
    Hahaha, you only needed to put the mower out, then you wouldn't of had to cut the grass

    ps. dont forget to check your oil level, if it is overfull you will have a gut's full of petrol in the oil also.

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    Some pretty amusing stuff in there!
    I try to push my more embarrassing shed moments to the back of my mind, but there have been many. One I wish I could have reversed is the fate of my flannel shirt. Working in the mines in Kalgoorlie in the late 80's everyone seemed to wear a miner's flannel shirt. Pure wool, made by Onkaparinga in South Aust they weren't cheap but you could expect a good life span from them.
    Yes I bought one, but was wearing it in the workshop while using a 9" grinder. The sparks were directed at my belly, with predictable results! Smouldering great hole right across the shirt...so much for wool not burning!


    Cheers

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    Quote Originally Posted by Andy Mac View Post
    Some pretty amusing stuff in there!
    I try to push my more embarrassing shed moments to the back of my mind, but there have been many. One I wish I could have reversed is the fate of my flannel shirt. Working in the mines in Kalgoorlie in the late 80's everyone seemed to wear a miner's flannel shirt. Pure wool, made by Onkaparinga in South Aust they weren't cheap but you could expect a good life span from them.
    Yes I bought one, but was wearing it in the workshop while using a 9" grinder. The sparks were directed at my belly, with predictable results! Smouldering great hole right across the shirt...so much for wool not burning!


    Cheers
    I've seen that more than once, with varying sizes of holes! Never done it myself though, I tend to check that I'm not smouldering pretty often, due to remembering an apprentice with a 12 inch hole burned into his cotton overalls!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Andy Mac View Post
    Some pretty amusing stuff in there!
    I try to push my more embarrassing shed moments to the back of my mind, but there have been many. One I wish I could have reversed is the fate of my flannel shirt. Working in the mines in Kalgoorlie in the late 80's everyone seemed to wear a miner's flannel shirt. Pure wool, made by Onkaparinga in South Aust they weren't cheap but you could expect a good life span from them.
    Yes I bought one, but was wearing it in the workshop while using a 9" grinder. The sparks were directed at my belly, with predictable results! Smouldering great hole right across the shirt...so much for wool not burning!


    Cheers
    I must say i have lit a few things up with the grinder but never my own clothes. Mostly grass and rags....I also tend to wear a leather apron a fair bit so maybe i would set myself alight if i didn't......
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    When you do a fair bit of welding you tend to cop the odd burn here and there, particularly when you do overheads, but what tends to happen is you grit your teeth and keep welding while something is cooking its way into you because you don't want to stuff up that beautiful bead your pulling, it just becomes a natural thing not to wince at a little burn.

    When your welding you can't see that your on fire, normally !

    But a few weeks ago my shirt sleeve caught on fire and I kept welding thinking it's just a bit hot sh#t, it will stop burning in a sec next thing fire and flames inside my welding helmet, my beard caught on fire hahaha everything went flying, helmet hit the roof I think and the mig would have if it had a longer lead.

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