[modeleng] Re: Digital Angle Guage
- From: "Shep" <shep.28@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 22:19:54 -0000
Jesse
I am constantly dropping things, and usually losing them! My worst
example was years ago, when I was making a half-sized version of a Stuart
V10 stationary engine. I reduced the plans, but of course there were no
castings, so everything was made from scratch. The slide valve was tiny -
about the size of my little fingernail - and it took me half a day to make -
and then I dropped it. Your workshop floor sounds a bit like mine! It
was in brass, so magnets did not help. After two hours on my hands and
knees I did not find it, so I started to move the furniture - and Oh Joy!
there it was under a cupboard.
Cheers! from Hubert in slightly warmer St Albans
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jesse Livingston" <fernj1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 5:30 PM
Subject: [modeleng] Re: Digital Angle Guage
> Hubert,
>
> Don't feel badly about dropping things. You have several years on me and
> I
> have already noticed how easy it is to drop things. Maybe they make an
> anti-drop pill, something like Viagra® that can help us old people. I
> have
> to be careful about dropping things in my shop as they seem to vanish into
> a
> black hole or something!. Maybe if I cleared out 30 years of floor mess
> it
> would help, but that would only allow round objects to roll farther into
> the
> black hole and be more difficult to locate. I really ought to be down in
> the shop working on my next project for a possible LSOR article, but here
> I
> sit pecking away at the keyboard.
>
> Jesse in icy but melting thank goodness, Troy, TN USA.
>
>
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