About to become a *true* DIYer ...

Great minds ;-) I read that earlier and thought it seemed worth recording for posterity somewhere!

And watch where red hot pieces of metal end up :-)

Sure, if I stick it on Usenet I assume it's going to be assumed to be PD

Anything I care about gets Creative Commons markup on it.

You haven't met my other power tools... 8-)

Better go upgrade the server then ;-)

Oh, that has got to sting!

(not in quite the same league, but I made a mental note the other day not to wear trainers with a nylon mesh panel on the top again when welding. Blobs of molten steel seem to sink right through the trainer, ones sock, before finally cooling on your foot!)

Jeez, Barbecues sound a hoot round your place :o)

Quite. Actually I would rate the circular saw and the electric planer as better aids to concentration (fear would be too strong a word) even though the AG was the only one that got me (so far). Someone else was wielding it, in my defence. We were working our way towards each other across a demolished corrugated iron roof, me bolt cropping and he (with goggles on) grinding bolt tops off. Yup, we both went for the same one and he took the top 0.5 mm off the inside of my forearm. Ouch! Never work with children, animals or, indeed, other people.

great, thanks Andy

NT

I've never had a power planer 'bite' despite intensive use. Provided you keep your hands on the handles don't see how it could. I have much more respect for a circular saw - and only ever use mine with the work on the floor (suitably spaced off it) and invariably with a clamped on guide to work to. But I have a bench compound mitre sliding saw which means the hand held one isn't so much used as once.

Prior to the invention of that tool, they just dressed folk in cheese grater pants and got them to sit down a lot...

Its when you put it down before its spun down..

Same goes for hand held routers.

Far more dangerous IMHO than those built in to tables..

Provided you

at least they have spring loaded guards, which routers and planers dont.

My daughter & her girl crewmate were parked up in Woolwich a while ago & two plastic policemen tapped on the window of the ambulance. They had come across a drunk who had managed to trap his willy in his zip. Not just the foreskin, all of it.

They too were trying so hard not to laugh, they had trouble in sorting it out. They got him to bite down on a rolled up newspaper then yanked the zip rapidly downwards. Makes your eyes water just thinking about it. He was so pissed he didn't feel much at all. Bet it was sore in the morning:-)

Ouch.

Some years ago the fire service was called out to Barnsley Hospital's A&E department to remove a wheel bearing from a penis.

Adam

That would have been a delicate job. The penis would have swelled up and any atempt to handle it would have made it swell again. Plenty of KY and a strong YANK, just to not cause confusion.

Dave

And the connection with angle grinders is ... ?

;-)

The nurse on duty told me the fire brigade first went to Koyo Bearings and practiced their cutters on some bearings with a banana through it. The banana kept getting damaged so the firemen used an angle grinder to make a wide enough groove in the bearing to allow some sort of pliers in the groove to snap the bearing open.

It made the local rag but the man was not named.

Adam

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Dave saying something like:

Pah. Freeze spray and a drift.