Spinning helicopter of death

Sometimes you just have a brainfart.
I had a round surface that just dident match up to any vice or clamp and I just need to drill the hole one size larger. So this is what a 3/8 hole drilled through you thumb nail looks like. Got of easy this time. thumb is almost completly healed and it onlt took 6 months.

Mike
 

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Go to Home Depot and get a 1/2" bolt, nut a washer to make one of these:
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My cutter was 1/16 brass sheet that was glued on a stack of micarta/brass sheets. Glue broke loose on the top piece. I know better than to do a sharp knife, just get caught by the lazy sometimes on the things you don't expect.
 
bikermikearchery said:
Sometimes you just have a brainfart.
I had a round surface that just dident match up to any vice or clamp and I just need to drill the hole one size larger. So this is what a 3/8 hole drilled through you thumb nail looks like. Got of easy this time. thumb is almost completly healed and it onlt took 6 months.

Mike
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There's a tool for everything.
I can't afford them all, but I wish I spent my booze $ on tools when I was a youngster.
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It would only take little time and maybe $50 to set up a quad box with an SSR in the power line......with a foot switch in the low voltage control line. This can make life a lot simpler and safer for many tools.
Plug up to four machines into the box. Turn on the desired machine and step on the switch to turn the power on and off . It could even be a deadman switch and require your foot to stay on it. For about $20-30 more, you could make this a cordless foot switch. It is all very safe because the switch carries no current or high voltage.

I'll add this to the work board,and draw up a set of plans. I'll design a portable unit that can be moved around the shop and plugged in wherever you need foot control, and a multistation setup. It can easily be made to run 110 or 220 VAC and up to 40 amps.
I had planned on making a cordless one for the new shop that ran a power buss down the bench, anyway.

I'll draw basic schematics today at work.

The same foot switch can be made movable with a plug on it ,and be used to turn your VFD on and off by foot,too. Just put a matching socket in the control line ( remote on/off switch connections).
 
I also employ a setup similar to Stacy's. It is perhaps, a bit more "low-tech" but I feel it serves the same purpose while saving you the time and money of fancy-dancy-wired-up-gadgy-ma-whosits. I call it TetherSafe.

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The rope can be tied off at any length to reach even the farthest corner of your shop. The sensitivity is adjustable through what I call "slackening". There is a deadman switch option in which you tie it further up the leg, when you fall over the shut-off is activated. Additional lines can be tied to shop guests, as well. This means that if you get caught up in a machine and flying metal happens to sever your TetherSafe umbilical, the action of your friends running for the door to escape balistic shrapnel activates the unit.

Stacy says you can make his for $50 and a little time.................. 25ft sections of TetherSafe are available directly through me for $39.99. Installation is as simple as tying your shoe!

Look for my other soon to be released products, such as: CellPhoneOnya, KeyTacher, TetherHammer and SpecStrings. I am also developing a dog walking system that incorporates Tether-Tech.


Rick
 
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*pssst* I know a place where we can get many different colors of Tethering Stuff, too! We're gonna be rich! :)
 
I'll bet a bungee cord wrist tether on a forging hammer will prevent it from being accidentally thrown out of your hand and hitting an innocent bystander.
 
Yeah, but what about the recoil? :eek: There's no such thing as an innocent bystander.... in my shop the rule of thumb for visitors is "get out and stay out" :D

EDIT: unless they bring beer and/or sandwiches... in which case the rule is "sign here and absolve me from all liability, expressed or implied"
 
Back to being serious,

I drew up a schematic last knight, and got most of what I need to make a foot switch controls from the boxes of stuff in the garage. I'll re-draft the plans over the weekend ,and post them in a new thread when ready.
 
Rick,

Can I attach a TetherSafe to my the end of work piece, so when it helicopters out of control the will TetherSafe will be activated?


Ric
 
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