Nitrogen shock

Ho-lee-shit.

I've never got involved with British classics, but I've always thought
that sprin hubs were a pretty dreadful idea.

That diagram has done nothing to change my opinion.

 

I have never seen a schematic like that, ever. What an amazingly complex
asembly for such a shite concept.

 

Yeah, and thousands of people have ripped their fingers off because of
wearing a wedding ring (1) or a watch at work. I've spent the last 35
years doing 'manual labour' and the scars I've got have come from
checking how sharp or how hot something is by putting a finger against
it.

The biggest cunts believe the hype.

(1) Yes, I have met someone who de-gloved a finger and it's a regular
posters brother.

 

It works with your mouth very close to your hand, when there's
virtually no opportunity for entrainment.

Works at low velocity as well.

I'm not saying adiabatic expansion accounts for all of the difference,
but in the circumstances I outlined it has to account for most of it.

 

I have worked with voltages varying from 5 to 50 thousand volts. I know
how long a spark you can pull from each of them and have liver spots to
prove it.

 

I've done a lot more stupid things than ride a bloody motorbike in
winter over the last 30 years. Sweller's taking an Armstrong so my
moments of insanity fade into insignificance compared to him.

 

I saw or rather heard the screams and saw the result of a girl losing
a finger to swarf from a thread cutting machine. Think I'd only been
on the shop floor about a month.

 

Yeah, it's cool

 

Which is the most important bit.

 

Her whole finger?
No, the one next to it.

I'll get my coat.

 

Gloves used to be considered a hazard if you were using rotating
equipment and you'd be told that you could wash dirt off your hands
but you couldn't wash a finger back on if it was ripped off but these
days you'll be hauled up for not wearing gloves when doing a similar
job.

I'd still sooner work without gloves unless I'm doing hot work
because I've had a drill snatch a glove (1) and it removed large
chunks of skin off my hand when if I'd not been wearing gloves I might
have got away with a graze.

(1) I phoned Adie from the hospital to ask the name & address of our
doctor and she insisted on knowing why I wanted the information.

 

I got a major bollocking a few years ago for filling in an accident
book and describing the damaged digit as the finger finger.

 

Th Older G. said

He deserves an OMF number, at least.
--


While doing demolition work 1ce
I ran out of oxygen
when new tank was installed
cap was rusted on (new tanks stored outside)
picked up a jimmy bar to loosen
after sticking in hole in cap
oxygen started escaping
not knowing if I broke valve
I let tank empty (had just turned the
valve a little)

Ice formed half way down the tank and cracked the cap

Do I get a number??
I had used a bar a 100 times probably
Used pipe wrench from then on

 

Is this another bacon thread?

 

It's just Champ talking about how he used to get a-rind.

 

That's a rash thing to say to the beast with two best backs.

 

That's me too, oh yes, and then you can check to see if paint is dry by
touching it right in the fucking middle of the job. Not the edge, but smack
in the middle. It's *never* dry when you do that.

 

Just reminded me of an incident at school when I was about 13 years old.
Those were the days when huge quiffs were "the thing" and one lad in our
metalwork class had the "hugest" of them all. Right up to the time it
flopped forwards while he was using a pillar drill. The quiff got grabbed by
the drill/chuck and reeled him in 'til his head hit the motor casing. The
head stopped, but the drill didn't and next thing we're presented with is a
lad with a wonderfully executed "Quiff-be-gone" trim, a bald patch down to
the wood and a fucking shit load of blood.

I didn't know a scalp could hold so much blood back then. It was fucking
scary to see at 13yo. We'd piss ourselves laughing these days though.

 

Perhaps he has the seven year flitch.

 

Inspired shonky-fashion brilliance of the day; iwt the managers loved it
- no need to re-tool for a new frame and the whole retro-fit market was
open to them as mugs bought them for their ten year old heaps.
Bear in mind the suspension options of the day were very limited and I
would suppose many prospective buyers (and subsequent guinea pigs)
thought this worked well enough, in a just adequate way from our pov.