Shop Hazard

[Bill]

Due to the economy, we're just barely getting by on the standard one's here. Nothing fancy.

Bill

[Leon]

Ok you realize that the shiny that I am talking about does not produce rather it reflects light. I had no special lighting conditions, but to get the reflection you have to be a the proper angle from the surface. A rotating saw blade give you s shine spot many times during a single rotation.

If you don't understand this I give up.

[Larry Jaques]

Nuke the li'l bastids, eh? Cool. Animated GIF at 11?

-- [Television is] the triumph of machine over people. -- Fred Allen

[Larry Jaques]

Yeah, it's called "How do you keep a [insert ethnicity of choice here] in suspense?"

-- [Television is] the triumph of machine over people. -- Fred Allen

[Larry Jaques]

The true ninja wooddorker uses miniature HSS shuriken blades when he throws them at the flies. They don't lose their teeth.

-- Win first, Fight later.

--martial principle of the Samurai

[Larry Jaques]

I vote for an induction heating unit!

-- Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air? -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Puckdropper]

Larry Jaques wrote in news: [e-mail]:

I see why it was so hard. I was just trying to swat the bugger, when I needed a small nuclear reactor!

Puckdropper

[Larry Jaques]

Right. Nuke 'em 'til they glow, then swat 'em in the dark, when they can't see it coming.

-- Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air? -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

[J. Clarke]

You laugh, but it's been done--irradiate fruit flies so that they're sterile then turn them loose to mate with female fruit flies who fail to become pregnant. It wasn't called "irradication" but I suspect that that's because nobody thought of it.

[Robatoy]

I was thinking more along the lines of a nuclear hand grenade.... It doesn't need to be pointed out that one would need one hell of an arm.

[Larry Jaques]

Holy Hand Grenades of Antioch are just as effective and much, much safer, I believe, as long as one knows how to count.

in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air? -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Robatoy]

To three that is...not two...not four..... one of my favourite parts of the movie.

[Twayne]

And your rec.wooworking question is?

[Puckdropper]

"Twayne" wrote in news:j0mqqt$8s2$1@dont- email.me:

The fly was gone last night, do you think all this discussion scared it off?

[Leon]

Probably died of old age.

[Eric]

I have a ring made of tungsten carbide and it shines like a new penny. After a week or wearing it the thought hit me:--if I injure the finger and they need to cut the ring off, how will they do it? I'm serious. A standard ring cutter uses a wheel with teeth like hacksaw teeth. Would a big bolt cutter break it? Inquiring minds want to know.

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Very easily. The same as any carbide breaks, as a mason does it. Put a small anvil on the back of it and smack it with a hardened tool tip. It shatters with impact. This is why you protect you router bits so well.

[krw]

Catch the Youtube video that was discussed here a few days back. It's a simple matter with Visegrips and there is no chance of taking the finger off with it. ;-)

[Larry Jaques]

So THAT'S where you learned to count! How nice.

-- Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air? -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Larry Jaques]

It was likely carried off in the hot air draft created by the thread, Pucky. Not to worry, there'll be more today.

-- Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air? -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

[beecrofter]

You are probably absorbing enough of the cobalt binder in the carbide so the finger falls off by itself.

Smack it with a hammer it's brittle.