Meh - Just a little clean up

[Richard Hed]

Thank you. Looks like he lives in Port Angeles. Nordland is pretty close. Not sure how I contact someone here. Be fun to talk in person. Miss the hobby machinist shows.

click on his name and do a "start conversation". am not sure if that is what they call a "PM" (private message) or what, but it seems to work

 

[dnalot]

Another HMEM brother got a GREAT photo of a wildcat in Mossyrock

That would be me, here is my Bobcat

 

[Tug40]

That Bobcat has some serious paws.
Wow, this thread has morphed from floor paint to Bobcats. ;D

 

[Richard Hed]

That would be me, here is my Bobcat

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This is so good you might be able to enter it in a contest.

 

[Foozer]

dnalot said:
That would be me, here is my Bobcat


That's a bit bigger than my 22 pound puddy tat

 

[Richard Hed]

dnalot said:
That would be me, here is my Bobcat


That's a bit bigger than my 22 pound puddy tat

Nice kitty. I like kitties. Have several myself.

 

[dnalot]

That's a bit bigger than my 22 pound puddy tat

Not by much. A male Bobcat tops out at around 30 Pounds.

My house cat Big Bob tipped the scales at 20 Pounds, but he was a gentle giant.

Mark T

 

[Richard Hed]

Not by much. A male Bobcat tops out at around 30 Pounds.

My house cat Big Bob tipped the scales at 20 Pounds, but he was a gentle giant.

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Mark T

Hey Mark, the Chinese might like to buy him.

 

[ALEX1952]

To come back to floors, our factory was criticized in a customer audit for its stained floors. So it was coated in a nice grey epoxy, which looked marvelous, one problem you could not walk on it if contaminated with oil water anything, so you had to develop a very strange way of walking. After much research it was decided to use the stuff London Undergrouned used which left a finish like emery paper very non slip great err no! if paper was dropped and trod on it would not shift unless you attacked it with a floor cleaner with wire wheels floor now looks really c**p. On the third go and many pounds later a compromise was found still hard to walk on but if you did slip it was not as far. I adopted what we used to use which until sombody decided they looked untidy, and that is duck boards, c**p falls through and depending on the height of the board the sweeping period can be greatly extended. We are never going to please her indoors unless we learn to hover, mine swears I walk around with my eyes shut. Just develop the contrite look and carry on as normal. I see it as keeping them gainfully occupied until the next soap is on. The last line is in jest please don't take offence. I'm not brave enough to say it out load even if you can avoid retribution during daylight you have to sleep sometime. I must be doing something right as we have been married for 49 years, or I did something wrong in passed life and this is punishment.

 

[dnalot]

So it was coated in a nice grey epoxy, which looked marvelous, one problem you could not walk on it if contaminated with oil water anything, so you had to develop a very strange way of walking.

When I was in the Navy we had the opposite problem. We had a brand new shop for rebuilding jet engines. The floor had been coated with a two part sealer that looked great and was very easy to sweep at first. Unfortunately the synthetic oil the engines used turned the sealer into a sticky contact glue. If you didn't keep your feet moving they would stick hard to the floor. The floor was like flypaper and we were the flies.

Mark T

 

[chrsbrbnk]

I remember when I first started in this tool and die shop in Minn. I thought " Hey a black top floor , you don't see those real often " Then for a while they had the janitor clean it off once a year about Christmas time with a 55 gal drum of Stoddard solvent and a floor buffer with a brush on it. It was kinda awesome he'd stand there with waves of solvent vapor in the air looking kinda like a heat mirage and a cigarette hanging out of his mouth!!

 

[Richard Hed]

I remember when I first started in this tool and die shop in Minn. I thought " Hey a black top floor , you don't see those real often " Then for a while they had the janitor clean it off once a year about Christmas time with a 55 gal drum of Stoddard solvent and a floor buffer with a brush on it. It was kinda awesome he'd stand there with waves of solvent vapor in the air looking kinda like a heat mirage and a cigarette hanging out of his mouth!!

Oh Thor and Wotan! Wen I was a youngster (last week) I had an experience that raised the hair on my hackles straighter than at any other time in my dangerous life! I went to get a propane tank filled and the guy filling it from a huge storage tank, blew some propane, A LOT of propane out then proceeded to smoke a cigarette in the blow-out. I never went back to that dealer. Also, he didn't have a lot of customers.

 

[Tug40]

In the Fire dept. we learned to have great respect for propane tanks.

 

[Mousetrap]

On a very hot shimmering mid summer day I stopped to get petrol in a small country town in South Australia. It was long ago when the pump attendant would fill your car as you waited, you could see the petrol vapor as the tank was being filled, the pump attendant had a cigarette in his mouth and used his spare hand to hold the cigarette as he had a draw on the cigarette. By the time the tank was filled I has walked quite some distance away.

 

[Richard Hed]

On a very hot shimmering mid summer day I stopped to get petrol in a small country town in South Australia. It was long ago when the pump attendant would fill your car as you waited, you could see the petrol vapor as the tank was being filled, the pump attendant had a cigarette in his mouth and used his spare hand to hold the cigarette as he had a draw on the cigarette. By the time the tank was filled I has walked quite some distance away.

Some people never learn maybe because they get kilt by stupidity

 

[Henry K]

I live in New Jersey. It is Illegal for a motorist to fill his own car or anything else like a 1 gallon portable container for gasoline powered equipment. Once or twice in the last 55 years or so someone proposed to change this rule. The proposal got dumped real fast.
Safety is one reason plus who want to stand out in the cold (-7 * C tonight) or a rain or snow storm filling their gas tank.