What angers/upsets you in the Workshop?

As a boy I discovered the best way to find missing airfix kit parts was to drag a plastic ruler across the carpet and watch (and listen) for them as they jumped up as it went over them.

Neil

Neil.... You didn't try a plastic magnet?

Them jobs you've started but cant be interrupted until done, phone rings PPI or something. One of these days will have heart attack giving them some since not allowed by law to call as a registered with TPS.

A tad off topic:

Neil I used to drag a bowl of hot water over the shag pile and watch fleas leap into it and drown. %^&$**&^%$ cats.

The fact that you need to get a £500 bench/pedestal grinder to get something with subtantial toolrests.

Bench drills that have tilting tables: something I have never used which just gets in the way by occasionally shifting because the fixing got a bit loose.

Double post

Edited By Rainbows on 15/04/2015 21:57:17

Should have drowned the cats !

The most annoying thing in my workshop is the operator.

I don't like to throw stuff away. So when faced with a boring job, half way through grinding a nice looking boring tool from 5% cobalt HSS I succumbed to laziness and gave the supplied brazed carbide @#*&^$ crap boring tools another go.

Nearly stuffed the job, gave it away just before it was ruined and finished the HSS tool grinding with great results, rescued the work.

We can be our own worst enemy.

The brazed tools now live in the tool cupboard with a note that says "HELLO STUPID, what do you want to ruin today?"

* Danny M *

Edited By Danny M2Z on 16/04/2015 08:23:09

Danny is right, the most annoying thing in my workshop is myself!

You know the moments, when it all goes to rats**t and a lightbulb goes on upstairs reminding you it Fsd up like that the last time you tried it!

I am a slow learner on occasion. Pondering Harrogate show this morning.......

graham.

Ronan, I felt like it at times however if I had I might have to drown the misses as well (Her cats).

On topic: The mini lathe cross slide knuckle peeling allen screws holding the handle and adding salt to the wound it always seems to line up with the handle on the feed screw.

I'm going out today priority is domed allen screws.

I have a question which is probably best raised here.

I have an excellent memory for where I have put things. Even things from years ago. However, every now and then it lets me down.When this happens it usually happens catastrophically and I am left totally clueless as to where said thing might be. On one occasion, while doing work for a customer, I lost the chuck key for the lathe. It took over an hour to find. Some time later I realised that I had charged the company that I was working for, for an hour of my time ransacking my workshop.

The question is:-

How much money does industry lose each year to lost chuck keys?

If possible I would like to see this broken down into 3 jaw, 4 jaw and drill chucks.

Regards David.

Spotting something at a show or auto jumble, and buying it thinking oh good I could probably do with one of them, only to find I already have two at home, which for some reason had remains hidden until the new one was put in the place I keep such things...........

I blame the borrowers......

Gentlemen,

Life has never been so quiet and productive since I bought a call blocking phone system, the PPI, Accident chasers and SPAM dont bother me at all now, I know they rang but the phone doesnt ring unless the person trying to contact tells the system their name, Heaven

Martin P

I don't get angry, just terrified, when my cats jump up on the workbench next to a working machine tool just so they can be with me. Or circumvent the sight screens I rig up to do welding. It's nice they want to be with me, but I don't want them hurt.

Regards,

Richard.

Bloody tape measure that disappears the instant I put it down. It's a light gray colour and blends into the concrete floor, grey benchtops and so on. I see why the new tape measures have a bright fluro green or orange plastic housing. But I like my old one with inches and mm on it. Besides, it isn't worn out yet. Because I can never find the bloody thing to use it.

For all things that disappear off the bench, I have a strip of magnets along the front edge, at least your nuts will be where they should

The hands on that clock face turning way too quick and the guilt when needing a flashlight to make my way back to the house from the workshop, such is the hour.

How many of us have done an all nighter? Been so engrossed in a machining process and so keen to finish it in one session?!

Cheers, Andrew

Losing that bit I put down 3 minutes ago

In one case, permanently

I still wonder where that 4 inch x 1/8 inch allen key got to

I lost it about 3 years ago and spent 2 hours searching for it then finding something new which would fit into my boring bar grubscrew

Edited By Ady1 on 10/05/2015 11:56:57

I use two pairs of glasses now and a few weeks back I swapped specs to work close-up on the lathe. When I finished I turned around to swap back and couldn't find my other pair anywhere. I looked everywhere (I thought). Then straightening up from looking around the floor, there they were! My glasses, in their black case had fallen off the steel cabinet I put them on and stuck to a magnet on the side of the cabinet.

Why is it when you have a bad back you tend to drop things more?

Ed.