Feric Cloride Mistake

dsgibbs1

dsgibbs1

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Well it seems that I am human. I had taken the blade to 400 grit and HT'd the damn thing. Then I dip it in the FC to see how the line was. Well it seems that I forgot it. For a week. I haven't been in the shop all week. I forgot the damn thing. I normally leave a blade for at least a minute. Seems that I messed up. Bad. :mad:
Here is what it used to look like.
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when I get done being pissed and clean up the foam and all I will post what it now looks like. :grumpy:
 
I've dipped overnight before... but never a week. Hard to believe there's anything left.
 
There isnt. Only the mess. Which I plan on cleaning as soon as I get my ass off my shoulders, or my head outta my ass. I have yet to do either. So I will throw the ball to my kids or play soccer with them. I dont want to see that bench for a few hours.
 
I bought a cheap stopwatch to hang around my neck for time-critical processes like etching and heat treating, it has probably saved me from this kind of thing more than once. I have considered just wearing it all the time and setting it to beep every 20 minutes or so, to remind me to remember whatever I forgot in the last 20 minutes
 
Justin King said:
I bought a cheap stopwatch to hang around my neck for time-critical processes like etching and heat treating, it has probably saved me from this kind of thing more than once. I have considered just wearing it all the time and setting it to beep every 20 minutes or so, to remind me to remember whatever I forgot in the last 20 minutes
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Me too. Kitchen timers at the dollar store.... for $1 ;) :) I put some paracord and a spring clip on them so I can just clip them to my pocket. They've saved me MANY projects that would have been ruined otherwise!
 
Justin King said:
I bought a cheap stopwatch to hang around my neck for time-critical processes like etching and heat treating, it has probably saved me from this kind of thing more than once. I have considered just wearing it all the time and setting it to beep every 20 minutes or so, to remind me to remember whatever I forgot in the last 20 minutes
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Sounds like a good idea. I may go buy several of them. I may also only do one knife at a time from here on out. Its not that I haven't messed up on knives before. Just never to this extent. I had a guard made and a handle ready for it with only the final shaping to do. It just sucks. Live and learn.
 
Okay, now this is funny... but sometimes I'll take a little piece of box tape and stick it on the end of my nose. And an hour later I'll notice it on my nose and wonder... hum... what was I trying to remember? Oh yeah, the sump skimmer is on...
 
Nathan the Machinist said:
Okay, now this is funny... but sometimes I'll take a little piece of box tape and stick it on the end of my nose. And an hour later I'll notice it on my nose and wonder... hum... what was I trying to remember? Oh yeah, the sump skimmer is on...
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Now, that is funny!!!!!!!!
 
Nathan the Machinist said:
Okay, now this is funny... but sometimes I'll take a little piece of box tape and stick it on the end of my nose. And an hour later I'll notice it on my nose and wonder... hum... what was I trying to remember? Oh yeah, the sump skimmer is on...
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Off topic but this reminds me of when I worked for a company driving armored cars. We would do little tricks to stay away (long shifts, little sleep). My favorite was a guy that would fill his mouth with water when driving...if he started falling asleep he would wake up when he drooled the water on himself. The moral of the story is....don't stay next to armored cars on the road. They are dented to heck for a reason.

dsgibbs1, I feel for you man. I've made the same mistake a couple times.
 
Water in mouth, I'll have to try thy one, always dozzing at the wheel :eek:
 
Myker said:
Water in mouth, I'll have to try thy one, always dozzing at the wheel :eek:
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woah, that's a great/crazy idea.
off-topic, but after I got a VERY expensive speeding ticket from driving too fast to get home before falling asleep, I started stopping when I feld the nod coming on. Take a 5-minute nap in a parking lot and it's like having a full night's sleep in comparison.
 
ecos said:
My favorite was a guy that would fill his mouth with water when driving...if he started falling asleep he would wake up when he drooled the water on himself.
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With my luck I'd fall asleep, have my head fall backwards, drown, then crash.

Gibbs: are you trying to push the old "it didn't happen if there are no photos" saying to the test, and see if your blade will re-materialize if you don't show us it? ;)
 
Phil, I wish it didn't happen. I plan on posting pictures as soon as I go back in the shop. I cleaned up and set the piece that's left on a box of tongs that just came in. I might not even touch that shop until this week. Between my kids having games and me being slightly miffed at myself. It just might be awhile. But trust me. I will post them. Then maybe someone can put it in the OOPS thread. Live and learn.
I should have taken pics of the foam. Who knew it would do that? I sure didnt.
 
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When doing some tasks that take a good while, I often go and do some yard work in the wait time. Because I don't wear a watch, I have lost track of time on several occasions, and left something too long in the oven, the etch tank, pre-hating the forge, etc. I stick a big crescent wrench in my pocket. It reminds me I need to check the item being worked on.

I have also put a loop of blue tape around my wrist when there are things tempering in the oven at night. If I doze off in my chair, and get up to go to bed, it reminds me to go shut off the oven.
 
My Uncle says I have a bad case of CRS (can't remember s___). I finally had to admit (submit) to being ADD as well as feeble minded and come up with some compensatory behaviors....

I put things in doorways so I will have to trip over them when leaving or entering a room to help me remember I had to do something before I left. The timer on my phone, which is usually on my belt, gets set frequently these days. I also often carry a small folded piece of paper in my shirt pocket with a punch list jotted on it for the day. I add and cross things off as I go along--phone calls to make, appointments, turning stuff on and off, items needed--are typical items for the pocket list.
 
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I use sticky notes and stick em where I'll see em. Got 14 on this puter monitor! Then ya just got to remember to actually read em instead of just glancing over em. Tripping over stuff in the doorway works too well and I use that often as well. Phil you're up on me. I can't remember how to use all those other things on my phone....I can call, I can answer it and I can look some one's phone number up, (course my 15 yr old daughter had to enter the numbers for me). No camera, timer, calculator, fancy ring tones or texting etc. I'd have to write a bunch of sticky notes on how to do all those things. No place to stick em on that phone.
 
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