Random Thought Thread

StoneAndSteel said:
100% said it wrong for years. When I finally learned how to say his name I questioned my childhood. I loved those books.
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I always thought it would make a really good D&D movie to focus on the Crystal Shard trilogy instead of the cheesy D&D movies they've been making. Not sure how I feel about the newest one yet as the trailer looks decent.
 
You know the feeling.

The day after digging chips out of a coolant bin at the bottom of a cnc machine. You know how it feels like theres tiny cuts and metal chips stuck all over your fingers, hands and arms? even after cleaning up.

yesterday.

time to go find the tweezers and a magnifying glass
🤗
 
StoneAndSteel said:
100% said it wrong for years. When I finally learned how to say his name I questioned my childhood. I loved those books.
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tokerblue said:
I always thought it would make a really good D&D movie to focus on the Crystal Shard trilogy instead of the cheesy D&D movies they've been making. Not sure how I feel about the newest one yet as the trailer looks decent.
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Grenock said:
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We would also have accepted Turbo-Nerd as the answer.

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EMCEE said:
That’s a nasty one. Great pics. Did the fuse blow or did it burn 🔥 burn until the Linemen turned it off?

Were you involved or living nearby? Thank you for sharing this.
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Wish I had recorded it instead of just taking pics, the sound was incredible. It was right next door. Power was out for like 2 hours. Been a few years but I think it was wind gusts that brought it down, and it burned until they came and shut it off. There's a hydrant right near there and a firetruck hosed the area down for quite a while.

Just a few weeks ago a fuse blew on the pole in front of our house cuz someone hit an underground cable in the new development behind us. Sounded like a bomb went off, and didn't know what it was until they came to fix it.
 
tinfoil hat timmy said:
You know the feeling.

The day after digging chips out of a coolant bin at the bottom of a cnc machine. You know how it feels like theres tiny cuts and metal chips stuck all over your fingers, hands and arms? even after cleaning up.

yesterday.

time to go find the tweezers and a magnifying glass
🤗
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Oh Timmy

I do know

I do
 
Sometimes, after mucking a sump, there's a smell that permeates your soul.

It smells like regret and despair

You didn't muck the sump because it would be fun. You didn't muck the sump because it was just that time of year and a good time to do it. You mucked the sump because there was something wrong with it.

It had sump livers floating in it. Midway between the bottom and the top.

Not quite solid enough to grab, but more than solid enough to clog up us a pump. Hidden just under the surface. With a dusty oil content that cannot be washed off with even strong soap. The best you can do is just rub it off as best you can.

Sometimes that sump is 5 years old. And all the little fines that can work their way through the chip conveyor are waiting at the bottom of it to prick you through your glove

The glove that has filled full of coolant and sadness.

And you're always aware, in the back of your mind, that this could be the time that some fungus and some form of tetanus will cross and make the monkey pox Ebola that ends society. The only cure for it will be MRSA. And you will be patient zero. And it will come from this sump.
 
Nathan the Machinist said:
Sometimes, after mucking a sump, there's a smell that permeates your soul.

It smells like regret and despair

You didn't muck the sump because it would be fun. You didn't muck the sump because it was just that time of year and a good time to do it. You mucked the sump because there was something wrong with it.

It had sump livers floating in it. Midway between the bottom and the top.

Not quite solid enough to grab, but more than solid enough to clog up us a pump. Hidden just under the surface. With a dusty oil content that cannot be washed off with even strong soap. The best you can do is just rub it off as best you can.

Sometimes that sump is 5 years old. And all the little fines that can work their way through the chip conveyor are waiting at the bottom of it to prick you through your glove

The glove that has filled full of coolant and sadness.

And you're always aware, in the back of your mind, that this could be the time that some fungus and some form of tetanus will cross and make the monkey pox Ebola that ends society. The only cure for it will be MRSA. And you will be patient zero. And it will come from this sump.
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Sump pox, be careful
 
Nathan the Machinist said:
And you're always aware, in the back of your mind, that this could be the time that some fungus and some form of tetanus will cross and make the monkey pox Ebola that ends society. The only cure for it will be MRSA. And you will be patient zero. And it will come from this sump.
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"Slowly wither away in a pile of fungi and flesh"
 
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tinfoil hat timmy said:
You know the feeling.

The day after digging chips out of a coolant bin at the bottom of a cnc machine. You know how it feels like theres tiny cuts and metal chips stuck all over your fingers, hands and arms? even after cleaning up.

yesterday.

time to go find the tweezers and a magnifying glass
🤗
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Not as manly as a CNC mach.,..but Wed. I was scrubbing pans after a church lunch we do. The steel scrubber was embedding shards in my fingertips. I realized it when I added EZ Off to the mix! (rubber gloves are for sissies)
The next day my, fingers were so tender I could have cracked a safe.
BTW, EZ Off adds an interesting finish to grilled cheese.
 
tinfoil hat timmy said:
You know the feeling.

The day after digging chips out of a coolant bin at the bottom of a cnc machine. You know how it feels like theres tiny cuts and metal chips stuck all over your fingers, hands and arms? even after cleaning up.

yesterday.

time to go find the tweezers and a magnifying glass
🤗
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A magnetic pickup tool won’t work?

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I done forgotted that you might be playing with non-ferrous stuff
 
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Nathan the Machinist said:
Sometimes, after mucking a sump, there's a smell that permeates your soul.

It smells like regret and despair

You didn't muck the sump because it would be fun. You didn't muck the sump because it was just that time of year and a good time to do it. You mucked the sump because there was something wrong with it.

It had sump livers floating in it. Midway between the bottom and the top.

Not quite solid enough to grab, but more than solid enough to clog up us a pump. Hidden just under the surface. With a dusty oil content that cannot be washed off with even strong soap. The best you can do is just rub it off as best you can.

Sometimes that sump is 5 years old. And all the little fines that can work their way through the chip conveyor are waiting at the bottom of it to prick you through your glove

The glove that has filled full of coolant and sadness.

And you're always aware, in the back of your mind, that this could be the time that some fungus and some form of tetanus will cross and make the monkey pox Ebola that ends society. The only cure for it will be MRSA. And you will be patient zero. And it will come from this sump.
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Out of curiosity, how well would a rare earth magnet work for picking up all the little chips and bits of metal in that goop (since I'd assume most, if not all of it is steel)?

Could even try something like fashioning a thin plastic/Kydex sleeve to go over the magnet to make it much easier to clean/remove the filings/chips (i.e., the chips and filings won't contact the magnet directly, where they might be near impossible to remove. When you want to clean it, you slide the sleeve off the magnet. All the caught material falls/wipes off the plastic easily).
 
Nathan the Machinist said:
Sometimes, after mucking a sump, there's a smell that permeates your soul.

It smells like regret and despair

You didn't muck the sump because it would be fun. You didn't muck the sump because it was just that time of year and a good time to do it. You mucked the sump because there was something wrong with it.

It had sump livers floating in it. Midway between the bottom and the top.

Not quite solid enough to grab, but more than solid enough to clog up us a pump. Hidden just under the surface. With a dusty oil content that cannot be washed off with even strong soap. The best you can do is just rub it off as best you can.

Sometimes that sump is 5 years old. And all the little fines that can work their way through the chip conveyor are waiting at the bottom of it to prick you through your glove

The glove that has filled full of coolant and sadness.

And you're always aware, in the back of your mind, that this could be the time that some fungus and some form of tetanus will cross and make the monkey pox Ebola that ends society. The only cure for it will be MRSA. And you will be patient zero. And it will come from this sump.
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yes

except we dont have monkeys in our shop so... no poxes.

everything else though
 
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