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I almost posted this the other day, and decided that it was too dumb. Oh, what the heck.



"Never try to catch a falling soldering iron."


Just step back, shield your eyes and let it fall. That little drop of solder on the tip is likely to go fkying, and the part you will catch it by will almost never be the handle.

Daniel
 
Nothing is softer than a reflectors coating, nothing won't scratch it, especially if it is nice new and irreplaceable. Anyone got an E1e head?
(it's not ruined but it does have some very mild scuffs from washing it.
 
Here's one for ya' . . . .


When you're changing a car tire.


Removed all the lug nuts, but still can't get the wheel off. :mad:


It's STUCK ! :hairpull:



What to do . . . .


What to do . . . .



Well, whatEVER you do, don't attempt to loosen it
by smacking the tire sidewall with a SLEDGEHAMMER !


Not unless you happen to be wearing industrial-grade SHIN-GUARDS !


(ask me how i know . . . .) :mecry:


_
 
I feel your pain, or almost. I did just about the same thing, but with a
2-pound rubber mallet. With all my youthful strength, I hit the rim, the
head flew off and knocked out the customer standing behind me. He woke
up a few minutes later to the screams of his girlfriend, but he didn't
remember anything. Insurance covered the broken jaw.

Burgess said:
Here's one for ya' . . . .
<snip>
(ask me how i know . . . .) :mecry:
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I couldn't get my "experimental" propane fueled lawnmower started so I decided to check the spark plug which looked well used (original). After cleaning and re-gapping the spark plug, I decided to attach it to the spark plug wire but leave it resting against the head of the engine (so it would ground) and spin the flywheel while watching it closely to see how good a spark I was getting.

However, there was still a sufficient amount of fuel in the hose leading from the tank to the engine and sitting in the carburetor plus the end of the plug happened to just be resting right next to the spark plug opening. Well, you've guessed it, the remaining fuel was injected into the cylinder then pushed out through the spark plug opening on the compression stroke only to be ignited when the spark plug fired at TDC.
:poof:
An impressively sized flame shot out of the spark plug hole at my face. At least I now know that the ignition system is working.
 
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That lawnmower story reminds me of what happened to a friend of mine. He was cleaning compacted grass clippings from his rotary mower blades, and made the mistake of turning the blades to deal with each one. The mower was still hot, and it caught. He lost 3 fingers.

Moral of this story: Take out the spark plug before cleaning mower blades, so you can't get any compression.
 
(I've been restoring Eveready Big Jim's. A Modded Big Jim is one of life's pleasures. A standard, original one is another.)

GE 4547 bulbs are really bright.

GE 4547 bulbs are very delicate

GE 4547 bulbs do NOT tolerate overdrive

GE 4547 replacement bulbs are really, REALLY expensive.

Postage from the US is expensive.

H4515 bulbs from Jaycar are cheap Asian knockoffs that do not fit the Big Jim housing. Genuine GE 4515 do.

Postage of GE H4515, Q4509 and H7604 from the US will be expensive.

Modern lantern switches are shorter than old ones.

The white button can jam if the switch is too short.

The terminal spacing on 6V and 12V 8F lantern batteries is different!

Starting from scratch with a new battery shell is time-consuming.
 
After I got the mess cleaned up my sense of the absurd got the better of me and I had a good laugh, but I sure am glad there were no children around and I could swear when it actually happened.

Lessons learned today:

Powerex 4xAA battery cases from Thomas Directory will pop apart at the slightest fall.

When Powerex battery cases pop apart due to a fall, they send the individual batteries flying in wildly varying directions at speeds that, when compared with the velocity of the fall, are downright ridiculous.

Cats like chasing little bright colored objects streaking across the floor at ridiculous speeds.

Cats chasing bright colored objects streaking across the floor at ridiculous speeds don't watch where they're going.

The average Christmas tree stand will not hold up a 7 foot tree that's been struck by a 12 pound cat traveling at Mach 2.

There's no need to yell "Timber!" for the safety of your cat, they're quite capable of staying out of the way of a falling Christmas tree.

Christmas trees that have fallen create LOTS of bright little objects streaking across the floor at ridiculous speeds, teaching that cat that once you've got the tree picked up and the ornaments salvaged, it can create that fun again by picking off an ornament whenever it feels like.

Christmas will never be the same again. :buddies:
 
I got a REAL good chuckle out of that one DB!!! We have two cats that haunt us at work and a nice stack of envelopes doesn't stay a nice stack of envelopes when "spooky" is around!

"tigger" on the other hand just wants a warm lap!
 
Lol DB, I know how you feel - I heard a yell and a crash yesterday, and went in to find the Dear Wife sprawled in an armchair with the Christmas tree on top of her and stuff scattered everywhere.

She claims she was standing on a stepladder to put an ornament on the top of the tree when the tree fell on to her, and luckily she fell back into the armchair. I reckon she was trying to climb the tree, lol
 
Diesel_Bomber said:
Still trying to get the metal base off an incan bulb, eh?
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Bingo, DieselBomber. Just wrecked another incandescent today. :rolleyes:

However I did manage to get one of them off. I wound up buying a glass cutter at HarborFreight and carefully scored around the bottom of the bulb where the glass meets the base. This has the added benefit of leaving the filament stem intact, which will improve the visual impact of the finished product.

So I'm making progress after a few rookie mistakes.
 
Here's something my older sister recently learned the hard way: when buying jewelry, beware of getting ripped off.
 
When the girl you like who lives very far away gets back together with her ex, don't ask how long it will be before she realizes he's still the same guy she broke up with before. :shakehead
 
Never take your 5-year-old daughter to a nice men's store and give the 20-ish clerk permission to help her pick a tie for Daddy for Christmas.

She *usually* has really good taste. Now I have a $60 Italian "one of a kind concept tie."

I love my daughter!
 
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