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Absent Minded Farmer · Jul 12, 2009

I left the hotwire on the batt, the side door on the garage slammed shut from the wind, I was re-re-re-attaching the #'s 1 & 2 wires to the alt & JUMPED, causing lotsa sparks & magic smoke! Oh, btw, if your front rims are as round as the pentagon AND look like they were driven through a frshly cut russian olive patch 30 years ago, DON'T KICK IT!! I'm gonna to take a brake. Mebbe fer a day or to. I'm going in for an ice pack & an ice cold one. Maybe a nap. They used to work wonders when I was young... Until then - Mike

P.S. Many thanks for the help, thus far!

Darwin Schossow · Jul 13, 2009

I feel your pain my brother. I am nursing a broken bone in my right hand from a drill binding and spinning. Looks like I am taking 6 weeks off from my project. Thats OK though, it will give me time to look for and find the side handles to my drill before I get back into the business of drilling bigger holes in drawbars.

JMOR · Jul 13, 2009

(quoted from post at 12:58:16 07/13/09) I feel your pain my brother. I am nursing a broken bone in my right hand from a drill binding and spinning. Looks like I am taking 6 weeks off from my project. Thats OK though, it will give me time to look for and find the side handles to my drill before I get back into the business of drilling bigger holes in drawbars.

Reminds me of a story, sort of funny now, but wasn't back then.
We didn't know about safety, Dad let us do just about anything we wanted to try. I was about 8 or 10 & had a piece of iron in a vice on the work bench. Being too light weight to pull down on the two big handles of the old B&D that probably weighed a 1/3 of me, I decided to climb up on the bench and straddle it for more down force. Started cutting alright. Then just as it broke thru.........you are getting ahead of me now.........it grabbed, spun around throwing me off it and the bench. After it wound up all the cord, it unplugged itself & came to rest. We learn by the mistakes we make, preferably at someone else s expense.....that is the way my little brother learned as he watched be fly off the drill & bench, kissing the shop floor. Ahhh, the good old days!

Absent Minded Farmer · Jul 13, 2009

Yep, there was a time when a friend came by to use the old 1/2" D-handle Milwaukee drill. He wanted to drill out the pin hole, in the crank start stud, to the next diameter. He almost had it started when the drill bit bit the steel & mashed 3 of his fingers into the grill with the pipe & twisted his other wrist. After I heard about the docs bill, I figured it would be cheaper on myself to buy a cordless Milw. 1/2" drill with the built in electronic brake. May be a bit cheaper in the long run. - Mike

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