Today is my last day at my current job.. Kinda sad but super excited about starting something new next week

The great thing about those old metal housing drills is that when there is an electrical short inside, the WHOLE gun becomes charged. So when you get shocked, you are already SQUEEZING the thing that is shocking you. And because an electrical shock causes muscle spasm, your finger clenches the trigger even tighter and you can't let go. You CAN'T let go so the shocking continues. And if you try to rip it out of your hand with your other hand you are double F'd. Gotta unplug it with your other hand instead. But it's difficult to think calmly while you are being ZAPPED.

I need two bikes. I need to build a Nature Boy.

So we could enjoy going down ohlone! it was group consensus that stanford is a bit too steep to enjoy going down. The climb isn't that bad truth be told, pacing yourself is key.

This is the funniest thing I've read in a long time.

That is pretty great. Thanks for this.

It gets funnier.

Squid. 14 years old. Drilling something on a saw horse right under the open garage door. Pushin' hard, squeezin' tight. Long extension cord in use. Dad's van parked in driveway. Short occurs. Squid experiences the solid lock down "Clamp Hand" on drill. After a few panic filled seconds of 110 volts flowing through his body he can't think calmly or clearly. Squid desperately wants the suffering to end. He begins violently flailing his arm in an effort to free the limb of this rabid pit bull. It works. The gun breaks free and sails across the driveway and shatters Dad's van windshield.

Dad enters the scene. Shakes his head in disbelief. Mutters, "Why didn't you just unplug it?"

Full glass coverage?

I was thinking you were going to say the bit bound up in whatever you were drilling. That could get dangerous fast. My friend got into a fight with a router. Emergency room doctor said to him in a perfect deadpan, "**** happens fast at thirty thousand RPM, huh?"

Have you ever written anything besides posts on the forums? You do it well. Would read.


-Tim-

It was an old work van so no full coverage. I got to pay for (and install) the new windshield. Got one from a junk yard so it wasn't too bad.

I got a flannel shirt tail caught in a router bit once. The thing didn't slow down. Never even blinked. Just ripped the whole shirt right off me. Literally. And instantly. It was over before I knew what was happening. I was plenty lazy (dumb) about work place safety precautions when I was a kid.

Thanks for the kind words about writing. No, I have no experience other than goofing around. I used to blog about motorcycle riding shenanigans and review movies on another site, but it's all just been play.

Sounds like you were pretty lucky in younger days.

I was blessed with a good mentor and friend who taught me basic skills from about 8 years old. Taught me about torque, the difference between steel and aluminum heads, how to set points, pinion depth and things. Did a lot of stupid things with cars.

Also had a really cool shop teacher in 7th grade but he was scrupulous about safety. Roll your sleeves up, aprons, goggles, have someone else check your wiring against the schematic before plugging it in, etc. He had a particular thing about removing the key from the chuck before you turned on the lathe.

To this day I'm out there cutting the grass, 95° with goggles and hearing protection on.

Yeah, it is really loud. I tried it at max speed and I think I will need ear plugs if I ever use it for long periods.

I can't imagine being stuck like that. A week ago I got shocked by the outlet of my 220V extension chord, luckily I instinctively flailed my arm and freed my hand.

Yeah, the build doesn't seem to match the price point now that I look at it closer.

I gotta shocked by a frayed phone wire when i was a kid, one of the most terrifying experiences of my life. To this day.

I've been grabbed by DC when trouble shooting grounded circuits in my old position, definitely sucks.

I agree about it being overpriced for what it is. I think it would've been a better decision to put Omniums on it, maybe added better wheels and gave it a slightly higher price.

Finally able to change my stem to 80mm! Not too shabby

It was last night not today, but I stripped most of my Sierra down. I ordered a chain tool to I can take that off and I still gotta get the headstem and bottom bracket out. Once it's stripped I can get it powdercoated

Lookin' good! Does it ride better to you?

Dad had a train set. For reasons of Okie engineering, he had two power packs wired together, which left him with a spare power cord - about four feet in length - that terminated in bare wires. One evening he was playing with the train and turned to see that his youngest son (about 5 y/o) plugged in the cord and was holding on to the bare wires, bouncing in the floor. "You didn't cry," he told me years later, "but it sure did make your eyes water."

Many of us might not be alive today if we had grown up in countries where the mains is 220-240 VAC.

I very much like how you accessorized your saddle.

That's an awesome story, top-to-bottom, thanks for sharing.

Around here we do have 230 V. You may think of us Europeans as soft liberals, but actually we deliberately use 230 V to limit the life expectancy of idiots. And it works.

Part of what I do is power for computer datacenters. There is a lot of ignorance out there.

People say that they are using 220 when they are really using 208.

One of my coworkers called me from a customer's facility in a panic. He was trying to plug an L6-30 device into an L5-20 receptacle and wanted to know if they made an adapter.


-Tim-

So far so good tho i'm in a more aggressive lower stance. I'll probably have to ride a couple times to see if my neck likes the new stem